"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump has just declared the U.S. any honor finalizing a deal within days that would end their war."
“"Most importantly, we have a deal that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which”
was the whole purpose of what we had to go through to get. It certainly serves a big, very big thing, but we have a signing, soon, and the documents are pretty final shape, so we'll see, we'll see, very good should be done, and that should be done pretty quickly. They want it every minute as much as everybody else wants it."
President Trump said he called off a U.S. military strike against Iran's schedule tonight following two days of retaliatory fire between the U.S. and Iran, after that announcement of the cancellation, global oil prices fell below $90 a barrel. Mexico City kicks off the biggest ever FIFA World Cup.
NPR is Fernanda Nato says the first game of the international soccer tournament features
Mexico and South Africa. Mexico is heavily favored, they're playing in front of more than 85,000 home fans. They ranked 14 in the world on FIFA's official rankings, and South Africa is ranked 60.
“They're in paper, the weakest team in the group for Mexico.”
So this should be a game for them to win, but you know, the World Cup, nothing is guaranteed. That's NPR is Fednan Dornano reporting Mexico, the U.S. and Canada are co-hosting the big event. President Trump has named J. Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence last week he named another man to serve as acting DNI, and the ensuing fallout led to the looming
laps of a key spy tool. NPR's Eric McDaniel has details. J. Clayton is a lawyer and federal prosecutor. He also served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's unclear at this point whether Bill Polty named by Trump to serve as DNI and an acting
capacity will still do so. In fact, Democrats sank the renewal of spy legislation that allows the government to collect the communications of hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals located outside of the
“U.S. each year in large part, because they didn't trust Polty to oversee the program,”
as well as other aspects of more than a dozen intelligence agencies. The program is due to laps tomorrow, but intelligence gathering under the tool will continue under the existing authorization, Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. Elon Musk stands to become the world's first truly in air, stock in his company space is expected to start trading publicly tomorrow under the ticker SPC.
X, the company said in its June filing with the SEC, it planned to sell more than $555
million shares at a price of $135 each and raise $75 billion.
U.S. stocks close sharply higher. The Dow is up 929 points. It's NPR News. Anyone's groups are protesting for proposed decrease in VA disability benefits for certain conditions NPR's quellorance explained.
There's bipartisan support for a bill to allow disabled veterans to also collect military retirement pay. That's called the Richard Star Act, and it's been stalled in Congress for five years, in part because budget hawks opposed the cost. But Republicans surprise Democrats and veterans groups when they propose to pay for it
by reducing the disability rates for vets in the future who have two very common ailments. Those are tonight's and sleep apnea. Both conditions are often linked to combat and exposure to toxins at war. Democrats say any offset should come not from the VA budget, but the Pentagon. The VFW says in a statement, quote, "a grateful nation pays its debts to veterans.
It does not send them an invoice," Quillorance and PR News. New research featured in the journal Science Fines, a child's neighborhood leaves a lasting imprint on their brain, more from NPR's John Hamilton.
This study included more than 2,300 children who were first examined when they were 9 or 10.
All had MRI scans, and Dr. Nico Dosenbach of Washington St. Louis says the scans revealed a distinct pattern in children who grew up in neighborhoods with lower incomes and fewer social supports. It looks like a brain that has had less sleep and more stress exposure. Presumably because of heart-ser living conditions.
The study found a wide range of socioeconomic factors that were strongly associated with differences in brain structure and organization, that's NPR's John Hamilton reporting. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington. Millions of people in the U.S. get their flu shot each year, but a new scientific innovation could turn their routine into a one-shot stop, a universal flu vaccine, which would.
Protect not only against seasonal influenza, but also will prevent pandemic influenza. Turn about the revolution in fighting the flu on shortwave.
