Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
Vice President JD Vance is leaving Switzerland at the conclusion of high-level peace talks with Iran.
“He says they have laid a foundation to get to a final deal, but they're not there yet.”
Vance spoke a short time ago from the tarmac. We left a lot of our team, the Iranians left a lot of their team, at the resort there to keep on a work of ad. So all at all, very productive 36 hours, we're going to have to keep working it. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports Vance says during talks Iran agreed to let UN nuclear inspectors
into the country that's something Tehran disputes. Vance said Iran has agreed to allow inspectors with the IAEA back into the country, which
he called the first step in ending Iran's nuclear weapons program.
The two sides also agreed on a framework to make sure that military operations end in Lebanon, where Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group has Bola have been fighting. Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Iraq, she said on social media that major progress has been made to end the conflict in Lebanon. The discussions were strained by President Trump's renewal of threats against Iran.
Rob Schmitz and Pernyus, Berlin. The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District has resigned. It comes months after an FBI search of his home in office. Steve Futterman reports. Alberto Carvallos sent a letter Sunday night to the other Unified District announcing his decision to leave.
It was in late February that the FBI conducted a raid at his home.
Two days later came this from Board Executive Officer Michael McLean. Board of Education today unanimously voted to place Superintendent Elbarto Cavralo on paid administrative leave. The investigation into alleged fraud is reportedly connected to an AI contract Carvallos will give the go ahead to an AI chatbot for the school district in 2023.
Carvallos has denied any wrongdoing. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. Pope Leo has made an urgent appeal to governments to focus on fighting global hunger. In an address to the UN World Food Program he warned that aid operations to help the poorest
“are also essential for protecting the idea of the international community.”
MPR's Ruth Sherlock reports. The International System Leo said is becoming disorderly and conflict ridden. He told the staff of the UN's World Food Program in Rome that while aid and development projects become ensnared by politics and bureaucracy weapons do not. In effect, conflicts are fed more readily than people are nourished.
Pope Leo spoke of WFP's mission as essential to preventing humanitarian crises from deteriorating
into irreversible collapse. In an era where agencies like WFP have seen budgets drastically slashed, he pressed governments to cut red tape and tear down the barriers that prevent aid from reaching those in need, Ruth Sherlock and Pionnes. 10 PR News
Leanal Messi has broken the World Cup men's record scoring his 17th goal today for Argentina in their game against Austria in Arlington, Texas a short time ago. Blood tests that are under development are getting better at screening for multiple cancers and PR's Yucanaguchi reports the FDA could approve the first such blood test around the end of the year.
Screening is common in the U.S. for a handful of cancers like breast, colon and cervical. The recent research in the journal of clinical oncology on patients in the U.K. showed blood tests that can detect cancer markers can help catch disease earlier. Megan Hall had medical affairs for Grail, the company that makes the test used in the study. So it's a real fundamental shift in how we think about cancer screening instead of screening
for individual cancers. We can now screen an individual from multiple cancers simultaneously. She says such tests currently under regulatory review could help improve survival rates. Yucanaguchi and PR news firefighters in Los Angeles are gaining ground on a warehouse fire burning since Wednesday.
Crews have knocked down walls in preparation for a full demolition of the building. The cold storage facility was holding tons of frozen food including what's now decaying meat. The blaze has made air quality unhealthy around the Boyle Heights neighborhood keeping people indoors.
The company says it believes the fire started while workers were testing the roofs solar panels. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency, it's 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.
