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says the agreement to end the Iran war is not 100% there, but it could be finalized in the coming days.
“NPR's deepest shiver on reports president Trump has gone back and forth over re-agniting”
attacks on Tehran and moving toward a peace deal. The official who was not authorized to speak publicly says the U.S. and Iran are about 80-85% of the way to an agreement, but nothing is finalized. It comes after days of back and forth from Trump, who relaunched attacks on Iran this week, after saying a peace deal would come within two to three days.
The U.S. officials says the deal would reopen the state of Hormuz and end the blockade there, and it would end Iran's nuclear program and work on a performance-based model with incentives for Iran. The official says they expect U.S. allies including Israel to get on board with the peace agreement.
Trump's foreign minister posted on social media saying an agreement has "never been closer."
Deepish Ivoram and PR news, the White House. The Justice Department cleared the way today for the proposed $110 billion merger of paramount in Warner Bros. Discovery. The Trump administration says it found no threat to competition or consumers of film, broadcast television or streaming.
The merger would unite paramount, owner of CBS with the much larger Warner, which includes HBO and CNN, several states including California have raised anti-trust concerns, the European Union is investigating as well. President Trump's name is being removed from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC today, a judge denied a request to pause in order to take his name off the performing arts institution,
which serves as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy. Meanwhile, the Washington National Opera has filed a lawsuit alleging the Kennedy Center
owes the orchestra more than $17 million in donations, and PR's Isabella Gomez-Sarmi
Ento reports. The WNO's lawsuit accuses the Kennedy Center of wrongfully withholding several years worth of donations and contributions. The Opera and Performing Arts Center ended their long-term affiliation earlier this year. In the complaint, the WNO states that the Opera's funds were managed by the Kennedy Center,
but that they were supposed to remain to separate legal entities. The Opera claims it has been trying to collect the funds for over five months to know a veil. In a statement shared with NPR, the Kennedy Center says the Opera had a deficit. It calls the lawsuit Maritless and says it plans to pursue a counter-suit.
Isabella Gomez-Sarmiando and PR News. Shares of SpaceX sword 19% in its Wall Street debut today, making CEO Elon Musk the first ever trillionaire, the Shares opened at $150 and kept rising, Forbes is now estimating Musk's net worth at $1.1 trillion, Musk says the company is going public because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing
a colony on Mars. This is NPR News. A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bank who has been freed, rejecting arguments that his trial was unfair, judges expressed skepticism
“that he was not allowed to present key evidence during his 2023 trial, bankman freed”
is serving a 25-year prison term for dethrotting investors. The UN says cuts are threatening to reverse gains in fighting the HIV epidemic and PR's "johnacle Lambert" reports. Over the last several decades, HIV infections and AIDS related deaths have been on the decline worldwide.
Last year, there were 1.2 million new infections and just over half a million deaths according
to a new UN AIDS report. Those are record lows, but that global picture could be fuzzier because of funding disruptions to surveillance programs. HIV testing dropped sharply by up to 22% in countries with very high HIV levels. Additionally, almost 40% fewer people were taking oral HIV prevention medication in 2025 compared
to the previous year. That could lead to more infections in the future if the agency says. The number of people on HIV treatment ticked up slightly however, suggesting countries are having some success in responding to the funding cuts. Jonathan Lambert and PR News
A home where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders met during the civil rights movement has been rebuilt at a Michigan Museum after being dismantled and hauled from Selma, Alabama. The daughter of the original owners helped open the Jackson House on the grounds of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, the family says it moved the house so its history could be shared
with a wider audience. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. 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 100 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 up first podcast on the NPR app.
