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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to travel to the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain this week,
“as the Trump administration steps up efforts to end the war it launched in February.”
Vice President J.D. Vance says Iran has agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors into the country, NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports events spoke today after wrapping negotiations in Switzerland. Vance of the U.S. team of negotiators made very good progress and met several objectives. That includes establishing a mechanism to demine the state of Hormuz and another to help
maintain the ceasefire in Lebanon. But he said they were most excited that nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency would be returning to the country. "The final deal is the house. We set the foundation, we haven't built the house, but we've laid a successful foundation
to get to a good place for the American people."
“Vance also addressed the possibility of unfreezing Iranian assets, which he said the U.S.”
and Qatar would manage Franco Ordonia's NPR news, the White House. Taron has a different take saying it did not negotiate on its nuclear program and did not accept any new commitments in those talks. This is what Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman tells the official news agency of Iran. The Trump administration has dismissed hundreds of experts from federal advisory committees
in fields that include science and research, NPR's Kadeo Riddle reports. The Trump administration has given a little explanation for disbanding these committees, an executive order says it will reduce government waste. But experts, like Michael Abrams, argue there's a little waste in the system. He works for an advocacy group called the Public Citizen and wrote a report on this subject.
Abrams says these committees are an important tool connecting policy to practice.
“Do you want to crowdsource it with the best minds? And that's what federal advisory committees”
do. Why wouldn't you want to do that? Some of the issues these committees were studying before they were canceled, include how best to treat long COVID, how to help rural communities with health care, and how to prevent disease outbreaks in hospitals. Kadeo Riddle and PR News. Long time federal reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, died this morning at the age of 100.
And PR has Scott Horsley has more on his legacy. Former colleagues at Greenspan brought rigorous analytical discipline to monetary policy making and helped establish the credibility
that remains one of the Federal Reserve's most important assets. Greenspan was an
accolite of the libertarian Iron Rand and a reluctant regulator who believed bankers self-interest would prevent them from excessive risk. He acknowledged the shortcomings of that hands-off approach only after risky behavior produced a great financial crisis two years after he left the Fed. In 2006, Scott Horsley and PR News was Washington. UK Prime Minister Kier-Starmer today announced his resignation.
He will stay on as caretaker until his center-left labor party chooses a new Prime Minister nominations begin July 9th. It's NPR News. Three people died in Bordeaux France from extreme heat officials say where it's forecast to reach 107 degrees today. A heat wave in Western Europe has disrupted school, sports and rail service, Spain's Basque Country is set to hit 104.
That's more than double its historic average for the day according to Reuters' climate monitor. The most intense heat waves would be impossible without human-caused global warming. For many American kids, summer means screens, and PR's retouchology reports new research gives insight into protecting their well-being. Studies show that screen use goes up for kids during the summer, and that's linked to less physical activity, less time outdoors, less sleep, and
worse mood. But the good news says pediatrician Dr. Jason Nagata is that kids don't necessarily want to be stuck to screens all day. Children and teens themselves report that they actually don't want to be glued to their phones over the summer. It's just oftentimes they're a little bit bored and that's the easiest thing to reach to. Nagata says parent should keep their kids busy with summer camps and other activities so there's less time for screens, and he says parent should
set screen time rules for the summer. Retouchology and Pernus The World Cup's expansion from 32 teams to 48 has defied expectations of total lopsided results. Tiny Cape Ferds first run has included draws against favored Spain and yesterday Uruguay, and this afternoon in the Dallas area defending champions Argentina play Austria. Lionel Messi needs just one more goal to make the all-time men's World Cup record of 17.
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