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President Trump says now that the Iran deal is done, he will turn his focus to Ukraine.
“And Pierre's Franco Ordonius says Trump plans another meeting with the Ukrainian president”
during the G7 summit. President Trump spoke to the Ukrainian leader of a Vladimir Zelensky during a meeting with G7 leaders about the war in Ukraine. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also spoke separately with Zelensky. And told reporters it was a very good meeting and that he planned to meet with Zelensky again.
"Look, Russia should make a deal, Russia's lost tremendous amounts of people, so as Ukraine." Trump said that now with the Iranian deal signed, he can now focus more on the Russian war in Ukraine. He added that he would do whatever he could.
He said earlier he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He also said that the U.S. would soon be able to reimpose sanctions on Russia, which were eased during the Iranian war, Franco Ordonius and Pierre-News, Avian France. 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 questions about the administration's policies,”
as well as how his faith squares with those policies. And Pierre's Danielle Kurtzlevin reports Vance was interviewed for most of the hour-long show. "Hose 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. While many politicians write books as prelude to presidential runs, Vance has not yet declared his 20-28 intentions, Danielle Kurtzlevin and Pierre News.
"The slump in the housing market continues, and Pierre Scott Horsey reports on the latest
“home construction numbers from the Commerce Department."”
Homebuilders wrote 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%. The 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 Pierre News was Washington. "Election results in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Georgia today will further test President Trump's influence in Republican primaries among Democrats. The primaries hinge on longstanding divides between the far left and moderates as the party
tries to chart the best path forward to November, and in Washington, DC voters are picking nominees for mayor and congressional delegate as President Trump tries to transform the federal district." Stocks closed mixed day, the S&P 500 slipped more than half a percent, though it was nearly evenly split between rising and falling stocks.
This is NPR. President Trump's attorney for the 2020 campaign in Wisconsin and two former aids have all pleaded not guilty to felony forgery charges for the roles in a fake elector scheme designed to overturn Trump's loss in the swing state, the Wisconsin fake elector's case is moving forward even as others in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia have
faltered. This summer's wildfire season for Idaho in Montana is predicted to be hotter than normal, according to the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Lauren Patterson reports on how fire managers are using AI cameras for early fire detection. "Out in the remote forests and mountains of Idaho dozens of AI cameras are acting as digital
lookout towers for fires. Cain Stein Brecker is the chief fire warden of the Clearwater Pot-Lutch Timber Protective Association. He says the cameras have been getting better at detecting fires every year." "So, it takes a picture every couple minutes of full 360 panoramic photograph and it
compares it to the one that took previously scans it for any kind of anomaly that may be out there." A person double checks anything flagged by the camera before emergency resources are sent out. Stein Brecker says last season the cameras caught six fires early, and he's hoping for
a safe season this year. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Orphino, Idaho. The nation's infant mortality rate dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, below 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 life births that declined translated to hundreds of fewer infant deaths per year.
While the U.S. rate has decreased over the decades, it has remained higher than other high-income countries. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
