Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder, Vice President JD Vance is giving a pos...
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 a house yet.
“We're going to have to keep on building and that's what we'll do.”
Vance, speaking there to reporters before leaving Switzerland, saying that Yoshiations created a good foundation for a successful deal, Vance claimed progress on multiple fronts from ensuring the straight-up for moves remains open to Iran agreeing to allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to return to the country, similar to the deal reached in the Obama administration that President Trump rejected.
Iran's foreign ministry says Iran has made no new nuclear commitments, but Iran did no progress in the fighting in Lebanon. Iran also says there has been major progress to end Israel's attacks on Lebanon, called
they calling that the first real test of negotiations.
It impures Jackie Northam reports that one concession that Trump administration made is to temporarily allow Iran to sell oil on the world market. The Treasury Department lifted oil sanctions on Iran for the next 60 days. This gives Iran a huge economic boost after years of having to sell crude and other petroleum products at cut rates largely on the black market.
“The move is part of the interim agreement between the U.S. and Iran that was reached last”
week. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant wrote on social media that the oil waivers follow Iran's commitment to open the state of Hormuz and to allow international nuclear inspectors back into the country. There have been punitive sanctions on Iranian oil for decades. Exporters there have relied on so-called shadow fleets of old tankers to move crude, primarily
to China. Jackie Northam and PR news. The U.S. Supreme Court has further weakened the federal voting rights act with a new order that affects seven states mainly in the Midwest. The order comes out of a case about the landmark laws protections for disabled voters
and voters who are unable to read or write as Empire's Hansi Lohong reports. The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling that limits protections for certain voters in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
“Losers by voters and advocacy groups have been the main way of enforcing voting rights”
act protections for voters with a disability or an inability to read or write. But a federal appeals panel ruled only the U.S. Attorney General can sue. Thomas signs of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund says his group plans to ask the Supreme Court again to hear this issue through a different case. We hope the Supreme Court will see that it needs to stop this situation where only one circuit
in the entire country has taken a contrary to you, to everyone else. In April, the Supreme Court weakened voting rights act protections against racial discrimination and redistricting on Z-Lohong and Pyrenees. And you're listening to NPR News. A federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from using a revamped version of an immigration
database that state election officials have been using to check the accuracy of state voter rules. U.S. District Judge Sparkle, Sucanund, cited Monday with voting rights and privacy advocates who argue the overhaul of the system known as safe, risk disenfranchising eligible voters.
Flags across Montréal have been lowered, following a shootout in Canada's second largest
city that left three people dead, including a Montréal police officer. Dan Carpenter reports. The shootings took place in Montréal's coat-denage neighborhood. Police say a call came into an emergency number at around 11.35 a.m. local time about someone pointing a gun out of a Hilton hotel window.
One police officer was killed and another wounded. Police say a civilian was also killed, as well as the gunman. Police say the 34-year-old officer killed died in the line of duty while trying to protect the public. The premier of Quebec in the mayor of Montréal of Express their condolences to the victims
and their families, Prime Minister Mark Carney, says he was horrified to learn of the deadly shooting. For MPR News, I'm Dan Carpenter, and Toronto. Soccer star, Leonardo Messi, now owns a men's World Cup scoring record. Messi scored twice in Argentina's two-nil victory Monday over Austria, bringing his career
World Cup tally to 18 goals. The match was also Messi's sixth consecutive World Cup game in which he scored, killing in Bobby's two goals in France's victory every rock puts him in a tie for second, which Germany's mayor's love clothes. This is in PR news.
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