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President Trump Thursday said the U.S. cancelled planned military strikes against Iran because a peace agreement is imminent. However, he said a naval blockade will remain at a fact until the agreement is finalized. NPR's moral bias in reports the president has made similar claims for several months that the war is close to an end. "For months," since the war began at the end of February, President Trump has constantly
been saying both that a peace agreement was at hand, or alternatively, he's about to
bomb Iran so hard. There a civilization will be wiped out and never be restored. It just
keeps on going like Groundhog Day. He's literally promised that a deal is near dozens of times. "When asked if negotiators had secured an agreement on the possibility of Iran having a nuclear weapon," the president said. "Yes, conceptually, there's no confirmation from Iran a deal has been reached. The U.S. Department of
“Transportation is no longer enforcing a key civil rights law after a rule change published on Thursday”
from Member Station KQED in San Francisco. A zool-do-strom Ekman reports." The DOT is dropping disparate impact protections. That's the part of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that says federally-funded projects can't discriminate against protected classes, even if it's unintentional. Laurel Paget Seekens of the non-profit firm, Public Advocate, says Title VI forced everything from transit agencies to highway projects to ensure they weren't
causing unintentional harm. "Very devastating that the role of being taken away, given the long history in the United States of Transportation, and the structure of being inequitable." In an executive order last year, President Trump said he would eliminate disparate impact protections, calling them unconstitutional. For NPR News, I'm a zool-dolster Mechman. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared his state of emergency
“over the new world's screw worm and its potential impact on the livestock industry.”
Brad Burke with Member Station WTTZ reports state experts are calling out all Texans to help monitor for the flies. "Animal health experts say vigilance is the first defense from the flesh-eating new world's screw worm, but Texas cattle ranchers like Dace Duke, outside Coleman are too worried. He remembers when the screw worm would show up in cattle when he was a teenager." "I've experienced it, but it's been a long time ago. You definitely know
when you have it, because it's God-awful, smells dead animals smell, because it's rotten flesh."
Agriculture officials warn of a possible $1.8 billion impact on the Texas cattle industry.
That's on top of the rising cost of fuel and materials, drought, and an industry consolidation leading to the smallest U.S. cattle herd in 75 years. For NPR News, I'm Brad Burke in Lubbock. Well, street rallied on Thursday. This is NPR. Testing delays are partly to blame for the size of the Ebola outbreak. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert explains, testing capacity is improved, but it may not be enough. For about a month before
the current Ebola outbreak was declared tests kept turning up negative. It turned out the most common testing machine couldn't detect the species of Ebola that was spreading, called "Bundabujo." That delay allowed the virus to spread undetected. Obdi Mahamood, director of health emergency alert and response at the World Health Organization, says the situation is somewhat different now. "The diagnostic capacity has improved significantly
from what we were three and a half weeks ago." In part, that's because of the arrival of a testing machine that can detect Bundabujo. It's currently in use across seven labs where Ebola is spreading, but Mahamood worries that if cases continue to climb, there may not be enough testing machines to meet demand. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. The New York Nix can clinch the team's first NBA championship in 53 years Saturday when they play the San Antonio Spurs and Texas,
the Nix lead that best of seven series, three games to one. In New York Wednesday, they pulled off the biggest comeback in NBA finals history, dominating the third and fourth quarters and erasing a 29.3/4 deficit to pull the head for the first time of the game with just 1.2 seconds left. The final score in New York 107, San Antonio 106. In the NHL, the Carolina Hurricanes now lead hockey Stanley Cup Final, three games to two after defeating the Las Vegas
Golden Knights by a score of 42 Thursday night in Raleigh. This is NPR. Support for NPR comes from in. On June 11th, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup.
The Super Bowl, and you might say, averages something over a hundred million, live viewers,
“but the World Cup final, I think like five times that much. The favorites, the underdogs,”
and the Americanization of the world's game. Listen now to the Sunday story from the
