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The terms of the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran are now public senior Trump administration
“officials' brief reporters on the deal for the first time Wednesday, and President Trump”
said he signed it at the Palace of Versailles, following the conclusion of the G7 summit in France. President Trump's decision to delay the confirmation process for his own nominee to lead the nation's intelligence agencies is feeling tension with Senate Republicans. J. Clayton had been expected on Capitol Hill Wednesday, but the hearing was postponed.
And Piers Eric McDaniel says Trump is making demands that are not achievable. "So, there's an unbridgeable divide between the things the President wants, and the things Congress is able to deliver. In an overnight truth-social post-Trump made two demands, first he wants the Senate to pass his election security bill.
This is the SAVE America Act." Second, the President wants to see Clayton's replacement confirmed for his current federal prosecutor job, before he allows Clayton to start the confirmation process. "I'm nominated Clayton, less than a week ago, after a political backlash over his choice
“of federal housing finance agency director Bill Pulti to temporarily lead the nation's”
18 intelligence agencies." Trump says Pulti will remain in the acting role. Face with the highest inflation in more than three years of federal reserve Wednesday, held at Spinch, Mark, and Trist Raid's steady. And Piers got whorcily reports a rate increase, could policy makers next move."
President Trump is hoping that the new Fed Chairman will oversee lower interest rates, but with a wartime spike in energy prices pushing inflation in the wrong direction, lower rates will have to wait. UPDATEED forecasts from Fed policy makers show they no longer expect to cut their bench mark rate by a quarter percentage point this year, as they did in March, instead the average
committee member is now projecting a quarter point rate increase.
Consumer prices in May were up 4.2 percent from a year ago, that's the biggest annual
increase since 2023, while gas prices have come down in recent weeks, they're still about $1 a gallon higher than when the U.S. launched its war with Iran. It's got horse-laying impure news. Washington.
“"Eastern Washington State authorities there say a fast-moving wildfire burning homes outside”
spoke canned impure's Kirk Sigler reports." The State Department of Natural Resources says the up-river fire ignited about one mile east of the city limits of Spokane, a city built out into old-growth ponderosa pine forests that has long been a major concern for fire managers. There has been some rain in the northwest in recent weeks, but not enough to chip away
at a major moisture deficit after one of the driest and warmest winters on record. The National Interagency Fire Center in neighboring Idaho says this and other wildfires have
already burned more than two and a half million acres across the country this year, well ahead
of the 10-year average. In Spokane, firefighters are hoping to take advantage of calmer winds, but unseasonably hot and dry weather is forecast through the weekend. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boisey. "This is NPR News.
The first named storm of the Atlantic season is losing steam, the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center says tropical storm Arthur has degenerated into a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast, forecasters, however, are still warning of dangerous amounts of rain. About half of all U.S. adults are using AI chat bots now, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center.
The poll also shows growing concern among Americans about artificial intelligence, here's John Rua Treat Porter." According to the poll, 49% of U.S. adults report using AI chat bots up from about a third to years ago. Open AI's chat GPT is dominant, Google's Gemini is in second. Well, uptake of AI chat bots has been swift with a growing number of Americans saying they're
more likely to help rather than hurt productivity. The poll shows that worries about AI are on the rise. About 2/3 of Americans think AI is moving too fast, and 40% think it'll be bad for society over the next 20 years, while only 16% think it will be good. There's skepticism on the regulation front, too.
A majority have little or no confidence that the U.S. government will regulate AI effectively, or that U.S. companies will develop it responsibly. John Rua, NPR News. "Initial ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran spurred some Asian stockpinch marks to not-to-record highs, Japan's New K-Share average hit an inter-day record for a four-strate
session, topping 71,000 South Korea's benchmark and stocks in Taiwan also rose to record territory. This is NPR." This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes it's about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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