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affordability bill in decades, and beer-sevent bizarre reports the legislation passed with bipartisan support.
“Before passing, 85-5, the bill's co-sponsor, Republican Senator Tim Scott, said the bill”
has been 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 the 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 Misaha and PR News. The U.S. is temporarily lifting sanctions against Iranian oil for two months. It's an incentive to get Iran to comply with its part of the understanding with the U.S.
to end the war.
“Vice President Vance says this will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors back into the country,”
but empires A.A. Betrawi reports these inspectors have already been in Iran anyway. The head of the International Tomic Energy Agency that Vance is referring to was in the United Arab Emirates earlier this month, and I was there when Rafael Grossi said inspectors are already in Iran, and had visited small labs and places that hadn't been attacked, but Vance seems to be implying here that they would be able to inspect nuclear sites like
Ferdou, Ishvahan, and Natans, which were damaged in U.S. air strikes last year. The I.A.A.A. says those air strikes obscured its ability to check on these sites. And the agency says that just days before that war last June, they had an able to verify Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium. And Piers A.A. Betrawi reporting, meanwhile authorities in Lebanon say that one person has
been killed and two others injured in a shooting there that they say is by Israel, Iran insists that for the potential agreement to hold fighting must stop in Lebanon. The State Department has confirmed to NPR that it will phase out HIV/AIDS funding to South Africa by next March.
“Piers Gabriela Emmanuel reports that in South Africa, roughly 8 million people are living”
with the virus. The State Department said it is ending the HIV/AIDS funding because of South Africa's failure to make progress on policy requests by the Trump administration. It's single that what it sees as South Africa's prejudice against white South Africans. The State Department said it had warned South Africa multiple times, and the country
is, quote, "more than capable of supporting its own health programs." In 2024, the U.S. gave
more than $450 million to South Africa, for HIV/AIDS work.
South Africa's Ministry of Health did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Gabriela Emmanuel and PR News. They're listening to NPR. There are primary elections in three states today, Maryland, New York, and Utah. South Carolina Republicans will hold a runoff primary to choose their nominee for governor.
For the first time in modern history, Utah has a safe, democratic, congressional seat and the primary campaign has been competitive. Significant numbers of Americans say they're receptive to religious expression in public schools, and PR's Jason D. Rose reports on the findings of a new survey from the Pew Research Center. Nearly eight in ten U.S. adults say they favor allowing students to voluntarily pray in student-led
groups. Strongest support comes from white evangelicals and black Protestants. The Pew poll found that fewer than half, 46% say public school teachers should be allowed to lead their classes in prayer. And only a very small percentage, say those prayers should be required.
Pew Research also found that 50% of those poll favored displaying the ten commandments in classrooms, divisions exist along party lines with more than seven in ten Republicans favoring these displays while about seven in ten Democrats oppose them. Jason D. Rose and PR News. Argentina's iconic soccer star Leonardo Messi has scored the most goals in World Cup history.
He now has 18 after scoring two goals yesterday in Argentina's win over Austria. But right behind him is France's helium in Bapé with 16 career men's World Cup goals, and Bapé held France defeat a rock yesterday. Another player to watch is Erling Holland of Norway. He scored two goals yesterday to help Norway beat Senegal.
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