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President Trump is continuing to discuss the Iran preliminary agreement and other pressing
“issues with G7 leaders in Eastern France.”
And Piers Franco Ordonia's reports, Trump had some strong words for the Israeli Prime Minister.
President Trump says the next phase of negotiations should be easier than the first round
that led to the signing of the memorandum of understanding. But Trump also said the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, meets the dial down the aggression in Lebanon. "I've had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon."
Tension has been high between Trump and Netanyahu over Israel's aggression toward the Iran-backed militant group. Trump is complaining that the strikes are hurting the efforts to strike a peace deal with Iran. Trump said if Israel can't do the job, then Syria should take over the fight against Hezbollah,
Franco Ordonia's NPR News, Evian Prance. Vice President J.D. Vance went on ABC Talk Show the view today to promote his new book.
“The show's Six hosts peppered him with tough questions about the administration's policies,”
as well as about how his faith squares with those policies. Vance was interviewed for most of the hour-long show, and Piers Daniel Kurtzleben has more. On a Navarro asked Vance about Trump's recent comment that he "loves the inflation." What he said is that he loves the fact that the inflation is going to come down when
this war is over. That's what he said.
The hosts were broadly critical of the administration, and also asked Vance about the
Epstein files and the Trump administration's deportation tactics. Vance's new book is called Communion, finding my way back to faith, and is about his conversion as an adult to Catholicism. For many politicians' right books as preludes to presidential runs, Vance has not yet declared his 2028 intentions.
Daniel Kurtzleben and Pier News.
“The slump in the housing market continues, and Piers Scott Horsey reports on the latest”
home construction numbers from the Commerce Department. Homebuilders broke ground on almost 16% fewer homes in May than they did the month before, most of that slowdown was in apartment construction. The drop in single family starts was less than 2%. Building permits, which are seen as a guide to future construction, were down less than 1%.
A survey by the National Association of Homebuilders shows Builder's confidence remains weak, rising mortgage rates are not helping with the housing slump. Scott Horsey and Pier News is Washington. The Trump administration is moving two of the major responsibilities out of the education department, as part of its plan to dismantle it.
The work of safeguarding civil rights will go to the Department of Justice, and the office that supervises programs for students with disabilities will go to the Department of Health and Human Services. Disability rights advocates had fought that move warning that it could mean less federal oversight of states and fewer students receiving services.
This is NPR News in Washington. The new US Central Chair Reserve Bank Chief, Kevin Warsh, is holding his first meeting. As chair of the Federal Reserve today in tomorrow, the board is widely expected to keep interest rates steady in response to climbing inflation, and an uncertain global economic outlook.
Warsh's leadership is being closely watched. The Fed is designed to be insulated from political interference, but President Trump has repeatedly challenged that and agreed that the Fed has not slashed interest rates. A new study provides more evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines may also protect the heart, and Pier's Rob Stein has more.
The growing body of evidence indicates that the COVID shots may do more than just protect people against the coronavirus. The vaccines may also protect against heart attacks and strokes.
In the new study, researchers followed more than 1 million veterans who got vaccinated
in 2024, including about a third who got a COVID shot. In a paper published in the journal Jamma Internal Medicine, the researchers report that those who got a COVID vaccine were about 38% less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke after a COVID infection in the next eight months. Rob Stein and Pier News
Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and a Wizard of Oz Witch hat are among the Hollywood treasures going up for auction next month. Heritage auctions announced today that the lot includes the lightsaber from the Empire Strikes Back, which is expected to fetch at least a million dollars. Our items for sale hoverboards from back to the future, too, rugs from the Big Lebowski
and John Lennon's handwritten lyrics. Its NPR News in Washington, I'm LeBee Casey. Every story from shortwave and Pier Science podcast starts with a question. Like, why do we have nightmares? How does AI affect my energy bill?
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