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Live from NPR News and Washington, on Ryland Barton, the Trump administration...

on reports that Iran didn't agree to allow nuclear weapons inspectors into the country.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Iranians should know what the terms of the agreement

are. "We know what they agreed to do, and now they either do it or they won't, and if they do, the process moves forward and if they don't, the president will have some decisions to make." Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on a tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns over the preliminary Iran deal.

Rubio will also hold meetings in Kuwait and Bahrain nations that Iran hit with missiles and drones and retaliation for U.S. Israeli air strikes. The Supreme Court has ruled that a Louisiana man cannot seek financial damages for having his religious liberty violated, while in prison, and appears adjacent to Rose reports the six to three decision fell along ideological lines.

"Daman Landors are practicing rostafarian, and while incarcerated in Louisiana, state prison officials forcibly cut off his dreadlocks. The haircut violated Landors' religious beliefs, that was not in dispute. But 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 "prisoners who suffer violations of their religious freedom and state prisons, no matter how blatant, will often be left remodila's." Jason D'Rose and PR News

A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of unauthorized migrants across the U.S., the panel throughout a lower court rolling that temporarily blocked President Trump's expanded use of expedited removal. Trump wants to quickly remove more migrants from the country without allowing them to appear before a judge first.

The policy has previously been applied only to those caught near the border shortly after crossing. A cell-off in text stocks gathered past today with the NASDAQ following more than 2% as MPRs. John Ruach reports the market is jittery about the hype around artificial intelligence.

Text stocks broadly lost ground, and they were led by chipmakers, including

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel. One semiconductor index on the Philadelphia exchange dropped nearly 8%. One of the biggest losers of the day was micron technology, an Idaho-based maker of memory chips. It shares film more than 13% ahead of an earnings report on Wednesday.

The stock has had a meteoric rise over the past 12 months, soaring nearly 800% amid a global memory chip shortage. But investors will be parsing its earnings for signs that demand is strong, and that the company thinks it'll remain that way in the coming months. Analysts are looking for signals that the AI boom will continue a pace, John Ruach, and PR News.

Film and thropic donations in the U.S. rose to $617 billion in 2025,

marking a 3% increase from the previous year. This is NPR. President Trump says six people have been arrested for damaging the reflecting pool in Washington, DC, which Trump recently ordered to be painted, what he calls American flag blue ahead of Independence Day, and a social media post Trump said without evidence that there had been a

350-foot gash cut in the liner, Trump said damage to the pool was "purposedfully and criminally done." Nearly a quarter of students are chronically absent from school. NPR is a Sequoia Corrilla reports on how some states are addressing the crisis. A student is considered chronically absent if they miss 10% of school for any reason. And in the U.S., that rate sits at one in four students.

That's still up from the one in sixth rate prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendance works a national non-profit that looks at the obstacles to getting students to class is out with its annual report on student attendance. It finds that more states are focusing on local specific guidance to help teachers and administrators prevent absenteeism before it becomes a problem.

More states are also investing in data systems to track how many students are absent in real time. This way, districts know when something is a problem, versus a year later, when they run the numbers. Sequoia Corrilla and Parenthood. The U.S. is easing its restrictions on Iran's world cup team.

The Department of Homeland Security says the squad can travel into the country two days before its next match in Seattle. Iran's squad had complained about the travel restrictions levied on the team. For the first two matches in Los Angeles, the team was not permitted to travel from its base camp in Tijuana, Mexico to Los Angeles until the day before.

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