>> Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Christian Wright.
The Senate has passed a resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran.
“The House has already passed the measure.”
President Trump is touring a Mac trucks plant in the swing state of Pennsylvania today. He's talking about affordability and American workers at the facility near Alentown.
>> At long last, you finally have a president who is putting workers first, putting Pennsylvania
first and putting America first. We're doing that and we're doing it like nobody's ever seen before. >> The visit comes as inflation has reached its highest level in more than three years. Gas prices have fallen some, but are still about a dollar higher than before the U.S. launch the war with Iran.
The International Maritime Organization says it's beginning an operation to evacuate more than 11,000 seafares who've been stranded on ships in the Persian Gulf because of the Iran war.
“The maritime authority says it has secured the necessary guarantees to support the operation”
and PR's Jackie Northham reports.
>> The IMO has been working on evacuation plans for thousands of seafares since the war in Iran began in late February. It's only now that Iran and the U.S. have an interim peace agreement that the operation can move ahead. In a statement, IMO Secretary General, Arsenio Domingos, says the large-scale operation will
be carried out in close cooperation with Iran, Oman, all other coastal states in the Gulf region, as well as the U.S. and the maritime industry. Attached to his statement is a notice from Oman saying it will provide a temporary maritime corridor for ships carrying the seafares and the evacuation will be phased to avoid collisions. >> Jackie Northham, in PR News, the Supreme Court has ruled that a Louisiana man cannot seek
“financial damages for having his religious liberty violated while in prison.”
And PR's Jason D'Rose reports today's six-to-three decision fell along ideological lines. >> Damon Landors, a practicing rostophariant, and while incarcerated in Louisiana, state prison officials forcibly cut off his dreadlocks, the haircut violated Landors' religious beliefs that was not in dispute. With the Court Majority Rule, the religious land use and institutionalized persons act
under which the case was brought can't be used to hold prison officials financially responsible even if they violate inmates' rights. In her descent, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote that the ruling means "presenters who suffer violations of their religious freedom in state prisons" no matter how blatant will often be left remodiless.
Jason D'Rose and PR News It's primary election day in Maryland, New York, and Utah voters are deciding on congressional races and other offices, Democrats trying to flip seats to get back power and Congress. You're listening to who NPR News in Washington. Europe is sweltering through a major heat wave, temperatures well over a hundred degrees
or shattering records on the planet's fastest morbing continent. Rebecca Rossman is on a walk in Paris today. It feels like you're just walking in an oven here.
But the city has installed these stands all over, and basically you just press this button
here. It's free. A mist of really refreshing water. Oh, so that's one where people are cooling off today. Rebecca Rossman reporting records continue to be broken at the World Cup.
As NPR's William Jones reports today, it was the turn of Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. After a frustrating, Scholar's first game, Ronaldo netted twice as Portugal routed as Pakistan. He became the first player to score in six successive World Cups. Ronaldo is among an array of stars who already electrifying this World Cup, with Argentina's
Lionel Messi, Francis Killian and Bapé, and Norways Erling Harland all among the goals. And this afternoon, another of the World's best strikers Harry Kane will have the chance to add to his tally, as is England team play Ghana, William Jones and PR News. Repeating our top story, the Senate has passed a resolution to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran, the House similarly approved a war power's resolution calling
for Trump to end the war earlier this month. Both votes are largely symbolic. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington.
