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Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.

President Trump arrived in the French Alps today for the G7 leader's summit where

he's touting a piece deal with Iran, and Piers Franco Ordonia's reports there are a lot

of issues on the table, but the piece agreements likely to dominate the talks. President Trump met first with French President and Emmanuel Macron and use the opportunity to tout the agreement that has intended to reopen the straight-of-horse moose. "We're very happy to say very, very signed deals on the site, and these strangers already partially open."

The President says the deal will ensure Iran never has a nuclear weapon, and claims

it will trigger an economic boon. The leaders are also expected to discuss trade, supply chain resilience, and artificial intelligence. Trump has not been as focused on the war in Ukraine, but says now that the Iran deal is finished, but it will turn as focused to Ukraine, Franco, Ordonia's and Piers News, Evian Fronts."

Meanwhile, Ukraine officially opened negotiations for European Union membership today. The process requires the country to commit to political reforms while still fighting a Russian invasion.

Ukraine views EU membership as a security guarantee for its future.

Moldova was also sent to officially begin its membership negotiations, too. The process could take both countries several years, some European nations want to fast-track Ukraine's membership.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom says President Trump has ordered the Justice

Department to investigate him and his wife. Newsom says in a video posted online that federal agents in recent days have knocked on the doors of his friends and former employees and have asked for records. Donald Trump isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president.

He's a hate that I've consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit. Newsom did not provide details in the Trump administration to climb to comment. Much of the Pacific Northwest is under a heat advisory today as Christian Fodin Vensel of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Portland is under an extreme heat warning.

Temperatures around 95 degrees are expected today, a level of national weather service says if X anyone who doesn't take action to avoid it. Mike Hornet was filling the back of his truck with baffled water to hand out to homeless people during the heat. He says that our places round town to cool down, but going that means leaving things

behind that often gets stolen. Sleeping bags personal documents. Now all of a sudden you've got a person doesn't have a house, doesn't have any ID, things

that you need to get services, you know, I mean, it's a really a cruel system.

Portland's local transit service trimates as it won't turn anyone away who's traveling to or from a cooling center, the intense heat is expected to end Tuesday. For NPR News, I'm Christian Fodin Vensel in Portland. Stockmark, it's rallied worldwide today, the Nasdaq composite jump more than 3%. This is NPR News from Washington.

UFC CEO Dana White called yesterday's fight night at the White House a smashing success. He says the mixed martial arts fighting company surpassed its goals in every metric, but he also said he wouldn't try to host the event again at the White House, whether concerns in the rare outdoors show staging events at federal landmarks and the soaring cost made freedom to 50 a one off.

One of the world's leading brain research facilities is announced that it is shifting its emphasis from fruit flies to transparent fish. NPR's John Hamilton reports that the goal is to understand how the brain controls an animal's behavior. A fruit flies brain is covered by a shell, making it hard to study.

So the genelia research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is making a big bet on Daniel Nella, a tiny transparent fish whose brain is clearly visible. Jerry Rubin, a senior group leader at genelia, says the change will open up new research possibilities. If you really want to understand how the brain is working as a whole, you really need to

see all the neurons firing at once. That won't be easy, though. Daniel Nella have three times as many neurons as a fruit fly. So genelia is counting on artificial intelligence to help its researchers make sense of what they're seeing.

John Hamilton and PR news.

A rare first edition copy of Emily Bronte's novel, "Futhering Heights" is up for auction

complete with spelling mistakes. Only about 250 copies of the first edition were printed and this one has been in a private library since shortly after its publication in 1847, the book along with a copy of her sister, and Bronte's Agnes Grey is expected to sell for $800,000, its NPR. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the

economy to the world, but every story starts with a question. NPR, we stand for your right to be curious, to make sense of the biggest story of the day and what it means for you. Follow Consider This, wherever you get your podcasts.

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