"Li from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, there is a lack of clarity ...
peace deal with Iran. President Trump said yesterday he was calling off threatened US military
“strikes against Iran. He then said a deal could happen with Iran in the next few days”
and even a signing in Europe. But Iran's foreign ministry says no deal has been finalized. President Trump has previously declared the Iran negotiations "boring", and Piers Daniel Kurtz-Laveman says Trump has focused a lot of his energy recently on personal building projects. He's torn down the East Wing to build a ballroom in military complex. He wants to build a massive arch near Arlington National Cemetery and a pedestrian bridge
next to the Lincoln Memorial, and he just completed work on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. And Piers Daniel Kurtz-Laveman reporting. Other projects then aren't getting as much attention from the President include ending Russia's war in Ukraine or overhauling the nation's health care system as he previously discussed. billionaire Elon Musk's company SpaceX has launched the biggest initial public offering in history. The company will open trading today on the Nasdaq
“stock exchange, raising around $75 billion dollars, and Piers John Ruich has more.”
The previous record holder for the biggest IPO was the Saudi oil company Saudi aramco.
It raised nearly $30 billion dollars when it listed in 2019. SpaceX will more than double
that, with a $75 billion pay load. The company has confirmed that it will sell more than $555 million shares at $135 each. SpaceX has big plans for spending the money to grow its rocket satellite communications and artificial intelligence businesses. The listing will open SpaceX up to a new level of scrutiny though, because it'll have to publish quarterly and annual financial reports. Some analysts say investing in SpaceX is a bet on Elon Musk, who will be firmly in control.
He is CEO, board chairman, and holds more than 80% of voting power among shareholders. John Ruich and PR news. The U.S. men's national soccer team will play its first game of the FIFA World Cup tonight in Los Angeles, and Piers Becky Sullivan reports from L.A. they will take on power and play. U.S. soccer has been planning for this world cup for a long long time. After the Americans failed to qualify for the World Cup back in 2018, they cleaned
house and a new staff brought in a whole new generation of young players to develop. The 2022
tournament was a first test for the young squad. They reached the round of 16. Now, they're older.
The core is in their prime and they're playing here at home. Here's midfielder Tyler Adams. This is like, for me, the biggest opportunity to just really grow the game, like to inspire people to show that American players are at the level of the rest of the world. Parkway is the first of the team's three group stage matches. Next up, we'll be Australia, then Turkey, then the team hopes a run in the knockout round. Becky Sullivan and PR news,
Los Angeles. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. There were reports of several tornadoes near the Great Lakes yesterday, at least three were reported in Illinois. The tracking side power outage.us says close to 600,000 customers are without power this morning and almost half of those are in Illinois. There are also reports that one person has been killed by storms in Iowa.
The U.S. Forest Service has now exceeded its hiring targets for wild land fire fighters. They'll be deployed for the summer fire season. NPR's Kirk Sigler tells us the West is on edge after a very warm, dry winter. New numbers provided to NPR by the U.S. Forest Service show the agency is now hired more than 11,500 seasonal firefighters, which is ahead of where Chief Tom Schultz says they need to be. Schultz is warning of potentially long and smoky summer in the West.
So we do have conditions that are alarming, but we are prepared for that. Schultz credits the solid hiring numbers to recent pay raises approved for federal wild land firefighters, but acknowledges morale is still a big issue after President Trump cut thousands of permanent staff in the last year. Those included experienced veterans who were part of elite incident command teams and so-called red card holders who were trained to
deploy to major fires. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boisey. A southern California aerospace company near Los Angeles is facing more than 30 lawsuits and some suits covered dozens of plaintiffs. This comes after one of GKN aerospace chemical tanks leaked dangerous substance last month. Some 50,000 residents got evacuation orders. You're listening to NPR. On June 11, 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
