"Live from NPR news in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the U.
today, this morning the justice is declined to take a case that President Trump very much wanted them to hear. He wanted them to throw out a New York jury's finding that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll. The high court has declined to do so. Trump was ordered to pay
$5 million in damages in the case. President Trump is saying there will be a meeting tomorrow
on Qatar, but it's not clear that Iran will agree. This comes as the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran grew shaky over the weekend. Iran fired on Gulf Naverns and the U.S. struck Iran. Jake Sullivan was the national security advisor at former President Joe Biden. He says there is a lack of clarity on the memo of understanding President Trump signed with Iran.
“"The flare up over the weekend, I think we'll see something like it going forward, but we'll also”
see both sides scrambling to try to keep it from becoming the war that we saw a couple of months ago. Both sides are going to want to try as much as possible to keep the ceasefire in place even though from time to time we will see these kinds of strikes." He spoke to NPR's morning addition. Stocks opened higher this morning as Comcast announced plans to split itself into two separate companies. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average rose about
260 points at the start of this holiday short and trading week. "Investor's cheered Comcast decision to spin off its entertainment division into a standalone media company. Comcast will retain its cable and wireless connectivity business. The new company will get NBC universal studios, the peacock streaming service and the network of theme parks. The company says it
“believes the split will give both parts of the business more flexibility to grow and invest.”
Samsung is teeming up with another giant South Korean company to build a half trillion dollar computer chip factory. The move is part of the massive worldwide investments part by demand for artificial intelligence chips. Asian stocks were mixed overnight down in Seoul, but up in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Scott Horsley and Piano is Washington. "Big changes will kick in for the federal student loan system this week. NPR's Corey Turner has more." The changes come courtesy of last year's
one-big, beautiful bill act and kick-in Wednesday July 1st. Among them, Republicans created two new repayment plans and they'll be the only options for new borrowers. The Biden-era save plan is also being shut down. The millions of current borrowers still in save will need to choose another plan, or they'll be automatically moved into what is arguably the least flexible option.
“There will also be a big change for graduate students. Once allowed to borrow as much as they needed,”
most will now be limited to $20,500 a year. Only students in a handful of professional fields, including dentistry, podiatry, and medicine will be able to borrow up to $50,000 a year. Corey Turner, NPR News. "You're listening to NPR." "It's been more than four days since twin earthquakes rocked Venezuela. There was a strong after shock today. The government says more than 1450 people have died, tens of thousands of people
are missing. Parts of Northern Venezuela are flattened, rubble, rescuers still have little equipment
to help find survivors. In the US, more than 60 million people are under heat cautions,
today, areas from Kansas to Michigan will get temperatures of 100 degrees or hotter. Meanwhile, the extended heat wave in Europe is now being linked to hundreds of deaths that occurred over the past several days. As me Nicholson has more from Berlin." The World Health Organization says that as of Sunday, more than 1300 excess deaths have been recorded in Europe since June 21st, underlining that heat stress is a silent killer.
It warns that European homes workplaces in schools are not built to withstand extreme heat, and calls for action across the continent to safeguard against temperatures that are rising at twice the global average. In Germany, two forest fires have broken out in regions with a high density of unexpected ordinance. One of them still contaminated with World War II ammunition. In Poland, the entire railway network ground to a halt, leaving passengers stranded on broken
down trains. For MPI News, I'm Esmienichelson, in Berlin. The knockout round has started at the World Cup, Canada advanced yesterday by beating South Africa. Today, Brazil plays Japan, Germany plays Pyro-Gway, and Morocco plays the Netherlands. This is NPR News. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes it's about really big things. But most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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