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Vice President JD Vance returned to Washington today after negotiations with Iranian officials
“in Switzerland, and the war started by the U.S. and Israel.”
Vance says Iran agreed to allow an UN nuclear inspectors, but a spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry told a state news agency that Iran has made no new commitments for inspections, and appears Franco Ortonius has more. The potential for this happening is a big deal. I mean, one of the challenges has been that
no one or at least no one in the international community has had, you know, basically a good
grasp of Iran's nuclear activity. Vance says they're having active conversations with inspectors from the UN's international atomic energy agency. What's particularly interesting is that these same UN inspectors were a big part of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, the one that Trump ended and continues to criticize. Vance is weak, NPR's Franco Ortonius reporting.
This Senate has passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades, NPR's esteemed Bassoha says the 21st century road to housing acts passed with bipartisan support. Before passing, 85 to 5, the bill's co-sponsored Republican Senator Tim Scott said the bill has meant to boost the country's housing supply.
“When you put more housing supply on the market, more people have a chance to become”
a first-time home buyer. The bill does not order the construction of new homes. That's up to the private sector. Instead, Scott says that legislation is meant to encourage home builders by reforming parts of the permitting process.
When you cut red tape, you actually reduce the cost of housing. The bill also bans institutional investors from buying up large numbers of single-family homes. And now heads to the House of Representatives. Steven Bassaha and PR news. The former mayor of Manchester, England, Andy Burnham may soon replace British Prime Minister
Keir Starmer, who today announced his resignation, Burnham would be the UK's seventh leader in the decade since the British voted to exit the European Union and appears "Lorn Freyer" reports. "Rome is saved, one lawmaker yelled, who can find out the high expectations facing Andy Burnham as he was sworn into Parliament."
“The aim of becoming the next Prime Minister.”
Ten years ago, Britain's voted for Brexit, which ultimately shrank their economy and
contributed to this revolving door of Prime Ministers. If the ruling center left Labour Party does choose Burnham, it's a change of personality more than policy he and Starmer share the same party platform. Another contender, former UK health secretary West Streeting, has thrown his support behind Burnham, who could run uncontested and become Prime Minister by late July.
Lauren Freyer and PR News London. Former US Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan, has died at the age of 100. He led the Fed for 18.5 years, presiding over an era of growth. This is NPR. The National Guard is patrolling the reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., contractors have
been using chemicals to combat algae and are trying to address peeling American flag-blue paint liner, which the administration added ahead of the country's 250th birthday celebrations. Trump claims there have been multiple arrests for damage to the pool's liner. He blamed the issues on, quote, "sick, deranged people," but hasn't substantiated those claims.
He says the pool might need draining again for repairs. Tiny transforming robots landed on the moon, NPR's Regina Barber reports on these companions to the first successful lunar mission from Japan. A tiny sphere of the size of a baseball and only half a pound in weight cracked down the center to transform into a rover on the moon.
In a study published this month in Science Robotics, researchers outlined this unique design and how this robot performed on the moon. The first rover of its kind to do so, taking images of the lander and the lunar terrain. These are not expensive devices, and if one or two fails, then you still have others. That's Roger Weenez, a planetary scientist who didn't work on this program.
He was thoroughly impressed and said redundancy was a huge benefit. Weenez said in the future we could be seeing these rovers exploring other planets and even asteroids. Regina Barber and PR News. The Transportation Security Administration says there's been an uptick in international
travelers discovering and trying to smuggle ranch dressing in their carry on bags after visiting for the World Cup. The agency cheered on the dip-low messy and advised the superior comment should be checked on the way home. This is NPR.
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