"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
"Chants of take it down from crowds forming outside the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
“Hours, after an appeals court, cleared the way for a judge's order to remove Donald”
J. Trump from the outside of the performing arts building. Cruise are up on scaffolding at this hour waiting to get to work, a federal judge has found only Congress can change the center's name." Trump says a piece deal with Iran is close that something he has repeated many times since launching the war in February, but Friday, Iran's Foreign Minister posted a deal
has never been closer, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan mediator says the two sides
have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending the war, but that terms dealing with Iran's nuclear program will be finalized during a 60-day period afterward. Oil has settled at its lowest price in months. After Trump, once again, promised that a deal with Iran is imminent, as NPR's Camila Dominoski reports, gas prices are also coming down.
Global crude oil prices were north of $100 a barrel for much of this conflict. The global benchmark for crude is now well under $90, and lower than it's been at any point since early March.
“That's largely because of hopes for a deal.”
The U.S. also says it's been helping some tankers move covertly through the Strait of Hormuz.
Lower crude prices have helped ease pressure at the gas pump.
The national average for regular gasoline is now $4.11 per gallon down more than 40 cents from a month ago. Camila Donoski and PR news. In Ohio, a group that organizes political activities for democratic causes was rated by the FBI.
In Ohio, public radio, Joe Engels has this report. Ohio organizing collaborative board member, Pranis Haney says FBI agents have searched premises and in some cases taken laptops and electronic devices as well as interviewed people who work with the organization. There's no reason for over 100 agents to be knocking on the doors of everyday Ohioans
demanding and accusing people and voter fry as it was at which time and scaring them with
“their children following them in their cars, the school and to work.”
I mean, this was a slow-out assault. I mean, they haven't seen anything like this in Salma. Haney says the people who were contacted by the FBI were told it was related to a case of voter fraud. The FBI has been contacted for comment.
For NPR news, I'm Joe Engels and come home of so high.
Tonight, on soccer's biggest global stage, the U.S. beat Paraguay for the one in their first
home world cup in more than three decades. The stadium near LA was packed with tens of thousands of fans, many wearing red-white and blue and chanting USA. Their next game is Friday against Australia. This is NPR news.
The same system that swept the Midwest spawning tornadoes and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands earlier this week has shifted eastward. The National Weather Service is calling for potentially severe thunderstorms from the mid-Atlantic to the northeast, the primary risk being damaging winds. Crews have been doing clean-up south of Chicago meantime after a strong line of storms
did heavy damage there. California's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit over a ballot measure that would upend one county's election system. From Jefferson Public Radio, Roman Battalion reports parts of the measure directly conflict with state election law.
Shasta County in Northern California has a history of attempting to change how elections are run based on unproven claims of election fraud. Shasta County voters passed measure B during the primary election earlier this month. It would severely restrict bail in voting, require voters to show photo ID at the polls and mandate that votes be hand counted.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta says that county doesn't have the authority to make such sweeping changes. Proponents of the measure declined a comment on the lawsuit, but they previously said the measure could be tweaked to fit existing law. Bonta is asking the courts for a swift decision because preparations for the November
election will begin soon. For NPR News, I'm Roma Battalion. Jean Charlotte, a long time movie critic and arts reporter for the today show has died. At the age of 100, his family announced the death Friday in a statement to NBC News. Charlotte joined today as a contributor in 1970 and left in 2010.
One of the last high-profile film critics on a major network, it's NPR. The World Cup is back in the US and the NPR network is covering the fans. When two teams take the field, their nation's histories take the field along the way. The local transformations just world-class soccer right here. And of course the games follow along on and off the pitch with the NPR app.
