"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Vice President Vance is defending the deal that President Trump signed to negotiate and end
to the war in Iran.
“As in here's Daniel Kurtzleben reports, Vance faced tough questions at a press briefing”
today on what benefits the deal could yield and when." Vance insisted that Iran will not receive financial rewards under the deal unless it complies with an agreement, but he was asked how that squares with allowing Iran to sell oil immediately. "We felt that it was reasonable that if we're going to allow everybody else to sell their
energy during this period of negotiation, we would allow everyone to sell their energy. That's all we're doing.
We can slap everything right back on if the Iranians don't make the deal that we expect."
While the White House initially said the Vice President would travel on Friday to Switzerland for a ceremonial signing, Trump signed an inverse side of France last night after the G7 summit. Vance said today he still plans to go to Switzerland but doesn't know when. Daniel Kurtzleben and Pierre News the White House.
“"The National Average for a gallon of regular gas has dropped below $4, according to”
AAA. If yours Camilla Dominozki reports, that's still about a dollar higher than it was before the U.S. and Iran attacked Israel, but falling crude oil at prices are bringing some relief to drivers." "Gasling prices are down more than 50 cents from their peak.
The app gas buddy anticipates that prices could continue to fall provided the tenant of agreement between the U.S. and Iran continues to hold. But it will take time for oil fields to resume production. Some facilities were damaged in the conflict and need to be repaired and shipping crude around the world takes time too.
So there are very real limits on how quickly prices can recover.
According to AAA, gasoline prices are currently up about 33 percent from before the war, electric
“vehicle charging rates rose less than 8 percent, Camilla Dominozki and Pierre News."”
"The U.S. has rarely worn Iran has been going on for more than three months." The Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a Marijuana user who was prosecuted by the federal government after he admitted to both smoking pots several times a week and owning a legally purchased gun. And here's Nina Totenberg has more.
"When FBI agents came to Ale Hamani's home in Texas, he admitted that he smoked pots several times a week. He was soon indicted under the federal gun control act, which makes it a crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison for an individual to use illegal drugs and have a gun. It's the same law used to prosecute President Biden's son Hunter, but today's ruling is sufficiently narrow that it may well not apply to someone like Biden who use more dangerous drugs.
In explaining today's ruling, Justice Neil Gorsuch stressed that it was extremely limited in part because marijuana use has become so widely accepted and is legal in 40 states, or as one professor put it today, weed is the new booze. Nina Totenberg and Pierre News Washington. "This is NPR News." Defense Secretary Pete Hegg Seth is lashing out at NATO allies for not providing access to bases
for U.S. forces to launch attacks on Iran. He says the Pentagon will conduct a six-month review of American forces in Europe, and that the outcome will depend on how quickly European allies take responsibility for their own security. Hegg Seth also accused Europe of prioritizing gender equity and climate change over defense. The review could impact NATO's collective security guarantee, but U.S. nuclear weapons will remain in Europe.
Feel that ropes and signs that we do not touch our common in many museums, but now as NPR's genocomethyl reports, more museums, including one in Philadelphia, are offering tours for blind visitors where they can touch history. The National Constitution Center has a room called "Signers Hall," crowded with statues of men who'd gathered for the signing of the U.S. Constitution here more than two centuries ago. The museum has opened the gallery for guided touch tours
that allow blind and low vision visitors to feel the realistic hands, clothes, and faces of the framers, including Benjamin Franklin. I got a few of the wrinkles on his face because he was 81 years old at the time of the convention. That's visitor Tim Kelly who says getting to actually experience history the way he learns excites him, especially as more museums around the country are now working accessibility for people's disabilities into their programming,
Jnaki Mehta and Pierre News, Philadelphia. While street hire by the closing bell, Junine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Hey, it's Latte from Radio Lab. Our goal with each episode is to make you think how did I live this long and not know that? Radio Lab, adventures on the edge of what we think we know. Listen wherever you get podcasts.
