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an annual rate that's 4.2% the highest in three years. Surging energy and gasoline prices
“because of the war against Iran are the main reason for the spike at the White House”
President Trump insisted inflation will come down later this year. You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know I can say it now. Something that you didn't know. You know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran until right now. We've took out the other night, 22 ships, laid it night with no lights because they don't have
any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out this way. It was 85 dollars a barrel. Democrats pounced down the President's remarks. Senator Elizabeth Warren says it shows the President does not care about the rising cost of living for Americans. House lawmakers grilled Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for more than four hours Wednesday about his years
long relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The appearance was part of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee investigation and PR's Ava Burger reports.
Bill Gates told lawmakers he never witnessed or knew about any of Epstein's crimes. Before
the closed or interview, he stopped until reporters he was appearing voluntarily.
“I hope my testimony is helpful to the work important work of the committee to find justice”
for the victims. In an opening statement, Gates said he met with Epstein on various occasions from 2011 to 2014 because he believed Epstein could help connect him with potential donors for his foundation. Gates also admitted to affairs and said Epstein used that information to pressure Gates to quote, "We engage with him." Ava Burger and PR news. Huge changes are coming for students hoping to get help paying for colleges and PR's
Corridor Turner reports to lie first brings a major overhaul of the federal student-ate system. The changes were passed by Republicans last year and include new loan limits for graduate students who used to be able to borrow enough to cover the full cost of their program. After July 1, they'll be limited to $20,500 a year. Borrowers enrolled in the Biden-era save repayment plan will need to switch plans as save
“as being shut down. And if they don't, they'll be automatically placed into one of the”
least flexible standard plans. July also brings the rollout of two new repayment plans that will be the only options for new borrowers moving forward. And in one more big change, the Pel Grant program for low-income students is expanding to help pay for short-term workforce training. Corridor and PR news. All three stock market indexes sustained losses Wednesday in part because of the renewed military action Iran and the inflation numbers. This is NPR.
The New York NYX Wednesday night stunned the San Antonio spurs in game four of the NBA finals, trailing 27 points at the half the next chip to weigh in the 3rd and 4th quarter's New York's OG and noby scored a basket with 1.2 seconds left to win the game the final score 107 or 106. It is the biggest comeback in NBA finals history. The next lead the series three games to won the series moves back to San Antonio Saturday night. Visa has struck a partnership
with OpenAI, the maker of chatGPT. It's a step towards AI independently shopping for people. NPR's Alina Soluki has more. Visa says it struck a deal with OpenAI to embed its payment network into chatGPT. This is a major partnership in what is a fast developing industry of AI commerce. Companies like Google and Amazon have been racing to get shoppers to buy things as part of their conversations with chatbots and eventually entrusting the chatbots themselves
to complete purchases for the user. Visa says it's deal with OpenAI will have Visa overseeing any payments, securing the transactions and monitoring for fraud. It's a massive expansion of AI shopping for Visa and an evolution for OpenAI, chatGPT for a while tested a sort of a digital personal shopping tool called instant checkout. But it stumbled with errors and was later phased out Alina Soluki and PR news. The FBI at EPA Wednesday began a search of a Southern California
aerospace facility where a feeling chemical tank led to tens of thousands of people being evacuated from their homes. The incident occurred on May 21st. From Washington, this is NPR News. Support for NPR. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things. But most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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