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High-level peace talks have come to a close in Switzerland with the U.S. and Iran agreeing
“to a road map to reach a final deal, but the two sides have different accounts about”
how to get there. Vice President JD Vance says to Ron agreed to allow UN nuclear inspectors into the country, but Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says they did not negotiate their nuclear program. And when it comes to American voters, they're skeptical, and the majority oppose President Trump's handling of the war he started and is trying to end.
NPR's Mar-Lice reports on pushback, even within Trump's own base. Trump is struggling to sell it. He's getting criticism from both wings of his own party. There are some in the Make America great again, MAGA base, who are angry that he went to
war in the first place, many of them voted for him because he promised not to get involved
in any more foreign wars. They don't feel like the U.S. has achieved anything of value so far. That's NPR's Mar-Lice and reporting. A new order from the Supreme Court has further weakened the Federal Voting Rights Act in seven states, mainly in the Midwest, NPR's Hansello-Wang reports the order comes out
of a case about the landmark laws protections for disabled voters and for voters who are unable to read or write.
“The Supreme Court is leading in place a lower court ruling that strikes down a key tool”
for protecting voters with a disability or an inability to read or write. That ruling applies to Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Across the country, lawsuits by voters and advocacy groups have been the main way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's protections for voters with a disability or an ability to read
or write. The last year ruling by a Federal appeals panel agreed with a novel argument by Republican State officials in Arkansas that only the U.S. Attorney General has a right to sue to enforce that protection. The Supreme Court has now refused to review the panel's ruling.
The move comes about two months after the Supreme Court's conservative Supermajority week in the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination and redistricting. On Zila Wung and Piano's Washington. British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer is stepping down. His approval ratings have slumped to a historic low following a landslide win two years
ago. And here's Lauren Freyer reports from London. The UK is set to get its seventh leader in about a decade. At a lectern outside Tendowning Street, Starmer resigned in a tearful speech paying tribute to my fantastic wife, Fick, who has been a rock by my side through good times and bad.
Poll show Starmer failed to connect with voters and deliver palpable change after budget cuts under the conservatives. He'll stay on as caretaker until his center left labor party chooses a new Prime Minister. Nominations begin July 9th. The lead contender is Andy Burnham, the popular outgoing mayor of Manchester, England.
Lauren Freyer and PR News London. On Wall Street, stocks are mixed. This is NPR News. Clive Davis, one of the most successful and best known executives in the recording industry, has died according to a family statement.
“During a career that spanned five decades, Davis played a key role in superstars, success”
stories. Whitney Houston, a wreath of Franklin and Alicia Keys, also Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Aerosmith. He says he developed his music business sense analyzing the Billboard charts. Clive Davis was 94.
Many pastors in the U.S. are using artificial intelligence in their work as clergy. And PR is Jason D'Aros reports.
The evangelical research organization, Barnard Group, finds that only 13 percent of Protestant
pastors say they don't use AI at all in their ministry work. What they do use it for varies half of pastors say they turn to AI for brainstorming or generating ideas. A little more than a third say they employ artificial intelligence to research biblical or theological topics and about a quarter report AI is writing sermons for them.
Despite its wide use, seven in ten pastors say they approach the technology cautiously and four in ten say they're conflicted about using artificial intelligence in their ministry. Jason D'Aros and PR news. The Supreme Court has reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Aeton Pates.
By a six-to-three vote, they granted an appeal from New York prosecutors to undo an appeals court's decision that overturned the guilty verdict against Pedro Hernandez.
In an opinion, the justices found federal courts should not second-guess state courts.
And you're listening to NPR News. This week on Sources and Methods, we unpack the memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump, which he says will pave the way for a formal peace deal with Iran. But if this really is the beginning of an end to the war, who won and who lost, listen to Sources and Methods as we talk it through with NPR reporters in Beirut, Tel Aviv and
Cairo.
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