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President Trump's concluding his time at the G7 Summit in France with questions about
“the terms of the U.S. as memorandum of understanding with Iran for attempting to end their”
war. At a news conference today, Trump did not rule out a resumption of U.S. strikes against Iran. "If we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks, two
weeks, four weeks, two years, you would never have the harm on straight open.
You would never have success. Your market would have instead of going up at levels that nobody's ever seen before. We'd go down at levels that nobody ever saw before, maybe except for 1929 or whatever." Now, the President laid out some of the broad strokes of his preliminary agreement. Trump said the two sides would begin the technical discussions on the Iran nuclear issues
immediately and that any economic relief for Iran, as a result of the deal, will "be based on merit." The confirmation hearing for a director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton is postponed. Senate Select Committee Chair, Republican Tom Cotton of Arkansas, confirmed President
Trump told Clayton not to show up. Cotton call that regrettable. In an overnight social media post, President Trump wrote housing official Bill Pulti, would continue as acting DNI, a decision facing bipartisan backlash in Congress.
“Trump's blocking a key intelligence gathering tool from being renewed as leverage.”
He wants Congress to advance a stalled voting restrictions bill and another of his nominees for a separate position. No changes in interest rates are expected to be announced today when the Federal Reserve wraps up its latest policy meeting. And Pierre Scott Horsley says the central bank is wrestling with the highest inflation in the
U.S. economy in more than three years, fueled by the war with Iran. A war timespike in energy prices has pushed inflation up to 4.2%. But the Fed's main tool for battling price hikes, higher interest rates, would do little to address the supply-shot cause by the U.S. war with Iran. So for now, Fed policy makers are expected to sit tight.
President Trump wants the central bank to lower interest rates. Mandy chose the new Fed Chairman, Kevin Worsh, with that goal in mind.
Worsh meets with reporters this afternoon for the first time since taking over at the central
bank.
“Worsh's colleagues on the right setting committee will also offer an updated forecast of”
where they think prices and interest rates are headed for the rest of the year. Scott Horsley and Pierre News was Washington. With a Fed decision coming soon, let's turn to U.S. stocks we see the doubt is up 195 points. The S&P is down slightly and the NASDAQ is off 33 points. From Washington, this is NPR News.
The summer wildfire season is expected to be hotter than normal in Idaho and Montana. Warren Patterson reports firemanagers say they're using AI cameras to help with early fire detection. Out in the remote forest in mountains of Idaho, dozens of AI cameras are acting as digital lookout towers for fires.
Cain Steinbrecker 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. Steinbrecker 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 two greatest soccer players of the past two decades are embarking on what will likely be their last FIFA World Cup, whose NPR is William Jones. An emotional, Lionel Messi wiped away tears as he opened the scoring for Argentina against Algeria last night. He'd go on to score three, becoming the joint top scorer in men's world cup history.
Today is the tournament arrival of the other greatest player of their generation, 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo follows Messi with a goal, he'd be the first ever player to score six successive World Cups. William Jones and P.R. News.
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