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The U.S. and Iran are in dispute over whether Iran agreed to allow UN inspections of its nuclear sites.

The disagreement comes as negotiators from the U.S. and Iran continued talks in Switzerland,

meanwhile Pakistan's prime minister says that Iran's ballistic missile program is not part of the deal and his country meditated between Iran and the U.S. and appears a deahodeed reports. The U.S. and Iranian Prime Minister, Sharbar Sharif spoke as he hosted the Iranian President Masood Pazakshian, Pakistan mediated a memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Iran,

that's kicked off negotiations on the terms of a permanent peace deal. It's also triggered disquiet, because the understanding appears to strengthen Iran by lifting sanctions and promising hundreds of billions in aid. And Shreef added, it did not include Iran's ballistic missile program.

It was never on the table.

As Shreef spoke, Secretary of State Marka Rubio landed in the Gulf for two-day visit. He told media he expects to discuss Iran's missile program with regional leaders. Deahodeed, MPR News, Islamabad. A record-breaking heat wave sweeping across Europe has turned deadly.

Rebecca Rossman has more from France where officials say 40 people have drowned in recent

days as they sought relief from the extreme heat. Most of the victims were minors who were swimming on supervised. French Prime Minister Sebastian Lekornu released the sobering figures after a crisis meeting on the unprecedented heat wave, now in its seventh day. France recorded its hottest day on record since 1947, with temperature soaring up to 112

degrees Fahrenheit in parts of the country. Fewer than a quarter of French households have air conditioning, in Paris, the Louvre Museum and Eiffel Tower closed early because of the heat. The parameters aren't expected to break until the weekend. For MPR News, I'm Rebecca Rossman in Paris.

Their election primaries and run-offs today in Maryland, New York, South Carolina, and Utah voters in Utah will be choosing from several candidates from a newly redrawn congressional seat, as MPR's Sage Miller reports.

For the first time in modern history, Utah has a safe democratic congressional seat that

could help determine the makeup of the House majority come November.

It's also one of the most competitive democratic primary races Utah has ever seen. The top three candidates range from moderate to progressive, to aligning with the democratic socialists. Damon Kahn is a political science professor at Utah State University. He believes this race lays out the choice facing Democrats across the country.

Do voters want a party that will stand its ground on policy, even if that policy won't go anywhere quickly, or a party that aims for collaboration. And if that means compromise. Sage Miller and PR News Salt Lake City Big Tech companies dragged down major U.S. stock indexes today.

The sell-off was concentrated in AI related companies that have had huge run-ups recently. This is NPR. A judge has ruled that the U.S. government cannot stop people enrolled in the biggest food aid program from using benefits to by candy and soda that a Department of Agriculture has encouraged the restrictions as part of the Trump administration's make America healthy

again campaign. Some snap beneficiaries sued over the restrictions. A judge said that she was not saying whether restrictions are a good idea, but she said the problem was that the government violated its own regulations. 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, schoolless first game Ronaldo netted twice as Portugal routed his breakfast on, 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, France's Killian and Bappe, and Norway's Irling Holland 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. The U.S. government is opposing a plan to auction more than a hundred artifacts recovered from the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, the Georgia-based company RMS Titanic

incorporated has exclusive salvage rights to the wreck and has extracted dishware, gold coins, and pieces of the ship's hull. It wants to sell some of those artifacts for the first time despite previous agreements to only display them at museums and traveling exhibitions. The U.S. government argues the auction would violate existing agreements.

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