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Vice President Vance is in Switzerland for the formal launch of the delayed negotiations
“with Iran, NPR is more or less in reports the freeing preliminary agreement is during”
controversy even among Republicans. Vance was cautiously optimistic. Now we see a future where everybody can work together to promote peace and prosperity for everyone. Iran had delayed the talks because Israel continued attacking Hezbollah and Iranian proxy
based in Lebanon. The U.S. and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding to negotiate while hostilities are paused for 60 days. That agreement is being criticized by some Republicans for allowing Iran to keep its ballistic missiles and kicking the can down the road on nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment.
But President Trump said he made the deal to help the U.S. economy, which was being
hurt by high gas prices caused by Iran's closing of the state of Hormuz.
Maralaisin NPR News. El Jazeera says one of its cameraman, Gaza, was killed in a targeted Israeli strike, making him the 12th journalist from the news network to be killed by Israeli forces during the war.
“He was killed during what's supposed to be a ceasefire.”
NPR's Honest Baba reports. El Jazeera says, "Cameraman Ahmad-Wishah was killed Friday in Israel's strike on a human centric Gaza. Israel confirmed the targeted Wishah and said he was active in Hamas's military wing, but provided no evidence.
El Jazeera says the attack is an attempt by Israel to quote silence the voice of truth. His body was carried through the streets wrapped in a white shroud with his blue breast vest placed on top. It's a scene his family is familiar with, Ahmad-Wishah's brother Muhammad, who also worked for El Jazeera, was killed in a targeted Israeli strike only two months ago.
The committee to protect journalists' says, more than 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October, 2023, making it that didliest war ever recorded for journalists, and a small boy and PR news, Gaza." New insight into the housing market and inflation comes out this week, investors will watch the inflation figures closely, as the Federal Reserve considers an interest rate hike
later this year. NPR's Stephen Bassaha reports.
“Excluding food and energy prices were up in April 3.3% from a year earlier, that's according”
to the Commerce Department's inflation gauge. The Federal Reserve signaled last week that it's leaning more toward an interest rate hike at some point this year, and that'll be influenced by May's inflation numbers due out Thursday. On Wednesday, we'll get sales figures for newly built houses in May, and April the annual
rate of new homes sold was 620,000, 11% below the rate a year earlier. No chambers of commerce are expected to pass a bill meant to encourage home-building this week, and ban large private investors from buying up single-family homes. Stephen Bassaha and PR news. This is NPR News.
Rail authorities and France are urging vulnerable travelers not to take the train during the heat wave. They say the high temperatures could deform railroad tracks and damage overhead electrical lines, much of Europe has been sweltering in recent days. The longest day of the year and the official start of the season is today.
The summer solstice occurs at the moment the earth is at its maximum tilt towards the sun in the northern hemisphere. NPR's Amy Held reports modern celebration stems from ancient tradition. Cultures for millennia have marked the summer solstice. In China, the Dragonboat Festival is keeping up 2,000 years of tradition rooted to harmony
with nature. Then there are stone circles. They appear to be one way neolithic people track the sun during the solstice, best known is Stonehenge in England. Now archaeologists Phil Harding says they've dug up a 5,000-year-old structure that may
have preceded nearby Stonehenge and served as its prototype. "You bet your life on it. There was feasting. There were celebrations." Still today, thousands attend Stonehenge more log on to a live stream.
And elsewhere, there's a midnight sun festival in Fairbanks, Alaska. And perhaps the Zen Yin to the New Year's Eve Yang, yoga at Times Square in New York. Amy Held and Perenuse. In women's tennis, the All England Club announced today Serena Williams will play in the singles that Wimbledon this year.
The 44-year-old mother of two has accepted the final wildcard. She's won the singles there seven times. Williams is already appearing in the doubles-evented Wimbledon with sister Venus. I'm Nora Rom, MPR News in Washington. This is our glass.
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