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Live from MPR News on trial Snyder, Vice President JD Vance is giving a posit...

of his talks with Iranian officials in Switzerland.

This is a laying a foundation for what could be a truly transformed Middle East, but we have built the house yet.

We're going to have to keep on building and that's what we'll do.

Fans speaking to reporters before leaving Switzerland Monday saying that negotiations created a good foundation for a successful deal. Fans claim progress on multiple fronts from ensuring the state of our moves remains open to Iran agreeing to allow UN nuclear inspectors to return to the country, similar to the deal reached during the Obama administration that President Trump rejected.

Iran's foreign ministry says Iran has made no new nuclear commitments. The Senate passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades, impures Stephen Pazaz as a 21st century road to housing act, passed with bipartisan support. Before passing 85 to 5, the bill's co-sponsor, 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 reduced the cost of housing. The bill also banned institutional investors from buying up large numbers of single-family homes, and now heads to the House of Representatives. Stephen Bassaha and PR news.

At the White House, President Trump issued an executive order Monday calling for investment and quantum technology and science impures Katie Arriddle reports. Many experts say quantum computing and technology could transform science in industry, affecting everything from drug discovery to national defense. The executive order seeks to spur development of a strong workforce of quantum scientists

among other things. Some experts express skepticism, however, given the administration's recent effort to cancel or suspend billions of dollars in science funding through federal agencies. Computer scientists Scott Aeronson at the University of Texas said in an email that he hopes

some of the new funds will go toward, quote, "basic curiosity-driven academic research."

He added that this is the kind of long-term investment that led to the idea of quantum

computing in the first place.

Katie Arriddle and PR news. My federal judge has halted Trump administration efforts to subpoena Minnesota Governor Tim Walls in an order unsealed Monday U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz called the attempt in effort to harass and retaliate against Walls in other state officials for not assisting the federal government with enforcing immigration law.

The subpoenas were issued during that huge immigration operation in the Minneapolis St. Paul area, Walls calls it a ruling of victory for the rule of law. And you're listening to MPR news. The police chief in Canada's second largest city says Monday shoot out to Montreal marked the first time an officer has been killed in the line of duty in more than 20 years there.

The authorities say a civilian also died and another police officer is in stable condition that chief says police responding to an emergency call at a Hilton Hotel were targeted with gunfire. He says the suspect was killed in an exchange of gunfire. severe wildfires have increased dramatically over the last four decades in California.

That's according to a news study that shows climate change is playing a role in PR's law and summer reports. In the 1980s, the majority of wildfires in California were low or moderate intensity. Most of the fires that the state's forests are adapted to, they clear out overgrown brush and don't kill the trees.

But over the last 40 years, extreme wildfire activity has grown rapidly. That's according to a study from researchers at UCLA and Stanford University. severe fires are now the most common because the atmosphere is hotter, drying out the vegetation, and because forests are denser. The risk is that severe wildfires kill many more trees, making it harder for forests

to regenerate. More in summer and PR news. The 29-year-old man accused of starting the deadly palisades fires on trial in Los Angeles. Prosecutors accused Jonathan Reiner, an act of sparking a brush fire on New Year's day, 2025, that ultimately re-agnited and became one of California's most destructive wildfires

in history to fence attorney say the fire was caused by fireworks. Financial markets in Asia mostly lower in Tuesday trading. "I'm trial Snyder, this is MPR news." "This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery.

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