"Lyre from NPR News in Washington," line Corva Coleman, President Trump says ...
be a meeting tomorrow in Qatar, writing online this morning, Trump said the meeting was
“at Iran's request, "the possibility of a meeting between the US and Iran seem shaky this”
weekend." That's as Iran fired at two neighboring Gulf nations, and on two ships in the state of Hormuz, the U.S. struck sights in Iran. In aftershock, as rattled Venezuela today, days after double earthquakes killed over 1400 people, tens of thousands of others are missing.
There's not enough heavy equipment to lift tons of rubble to help rescuers surge for trapped people. And beer's ate at Perlta is in Venezuela's capital, Caracas, and says there's not enough aid from the government. "There's a lot of anger and a lot of resignation, and you see that in that people are walking
through half-collapsed buildings trying to take couches out, and their couches out, they're refrigerators out of these buildings, knowing that it could collapse in any minute, but they feel like they're not going to get any help, so they have to get what they can out of these buildings." And beer's ate at Perlta reporting.
“In the US, the National Weather Service says more than 60 million people are under heat”
precautions today, from Member Station WDET, Quinn Kleinfield reports, "A massive heat dome will blister much of the central and eastern US this week." Forecasters say high pressure will trap extreme heat under a dome of air, causing temperatures disorient to the mid to upper 90s, at least, add in the humidity, and it will feel like it's well above 100.
National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Arnold says it will affect states from Michigan to Maryland. Senator of the heat dome is going to settle right over the Ohio Valley. For the most part, the overall rigid self is covering a good portion of Central and Eastern America.
Arnold says it will be so hot, it will stay hot, even during the evening hours. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Kleinviltre in Detroit. To celebrate America's 250th birthday, this year's July 4th Firework Show in Washington, DC will be supersized.
“In Biersville Chapel reports, it'll use about 851,000 fireworks enough to set a new Guinness”
World Record. This year's Firework Show on the National Mall will stretch beyond the mall. They're actually 10 now firing locations. That's Pyrotechnico CEO Stephen Vitale, whose company is putting on the big show. Some fireworks will be launched from barges in the Potomac River.
The show will last 40 minutes, more than twice as long as usual, and it will start later around 1030 PM Eastern. Vitale says he's using fireworks from all over. We've sourced product from around the world to make this special and unique, particularly some great products out of Spain and Italy.
He says he wants to create memories of a beautiful show that will last a generation. Bill Chappell, NPR News. Andrew listening to NPR News from Washington. The US Supreme Court is scheduled to release new opinions today. Some of the outstanding cases include President Trump's demand to limit birthright citizenship,
a core part of the 14th Amendment. Another case includes his demand to fire a sitting governor of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook. The Wimbledon Tennis Championship is underway today with two legends of the games returning to the court, and B.R.s William Jones has more.
It was almost three decades ago that Serena Williams made her Wimbledon debut at the age of 44 for the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion is back in action after securing a wildcard entry. Williams has been away from the sports since 2022, but says the invitation to compete in the singles at the All England Club was a chance too good to miss.
"I thought, well, I should really take this opportunity. Who knows if I ever make it here again, this could be it."
Williams will play her first round match against Australian Maya joint tomorrow.
She'll pair up with her sister Venus Williams in the Women's Doubles, that's a tournament they last won together 10 years ago. William Jones and P.R. News. "European Science officials say they're closing down a huge particle accelerator for upgrades. It's called the Large Hadron Collider, and scientists use it to smash small particles together
to discover mysteries about physics. Now the European scientists say they've completed their latest round of testing. They're going to strengthen the particle collider in hopes of unlocking more information about cosmic unknowns, such as dark matter. This is NPR."
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