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Both the U.S. and Iran are signaling the plan talks with Iran for a permanent end to war are off.

Those talks were supposed to resume after Iran varies its former supreme leader later

today, but in Piers' Emily Feng reports Iran and the U.S. are accusing each other violating the truth. President Trump has said he does not care if negotiators' resume talks.

Iran mean while lodged a complaint with the United Nations this week after a first round of

U.S. strikes on Iran on Tuesday night. The Iranian government accused the U.S. of "a blatant violation of the charter of the United Nations and its international obligations." And as the U.S. struck Iran for a second night in a row on Wednesday, Iran's mocks and resign, a former military commander in a Pfizer to the Supreme Leader's office, referenced

a line from the court on, and opposed on X about reciprocal punishment, which ends quote "the transgressing enemy in his accomplices will be punished," Emily Feng and Pyrenees. After days of intense pressure from Maine and national Democratic leaders, Grant Platner has ended his Senate campaign. Here's main public's Kevin Miller.

Platner continues to deny recent accusations that he raped a former romantic partner five

years ago. But during an emotional video filmed outside, he accused Washington interest of using the allegations to neutralize his populist anti-establishment campaign. We believe that for the movement to continue, it can't be made. The Marine Corps veteran and Orsterman handily won Maine's Democratic primary last month.

The State Party will now select a new nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in a race that could decide control of the Senate. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller. Financial advisors are weighing in on a new investment option for miners across the US. The Trump accounts launched over the weekend, and Piers Steven Bassaha has more.

Whether parents should invest their own money, depends on if they've already taken advantage of what could be better options. Kerry Joy Grimes is the CEO of the personal finance company worth money, and she said

one of those options is first, maxing out contributions for your own retirement.

Because what happens is we put money into our kids' stuff, and then we end up needing

health and retirement, and that is a way worse financial stress on our kids. But if you have a baby born between 205 and the end of 208, financial advisors say it's a simple decision. Sign up. Those kids are eligible for $1,000 contribution from the federal government.

Steven Bassaha and PR News. Bonnie Tyler, the Grammy-nominated singer, perhaps best known for the hit, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" has died. Her family set on social media that she was hospitalized in Portugal. She was 75 years old.

From Washington, this is NPR News. In Michigan officials say nearly 1,000 people have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection cyclist borough, no deaths have been reported. The source of the infection has not been identified. Relations are underway into similar illnesses, reported in Ohio in 27 additional states, Michigan

officials first announced the outbreak last week.

Blueberries could have a lot to say about climate change. Bianca Garcia, if member of the station WBU R, reports a Massachusetts observatory, is watching what the summer fruit yields about the state of our environment. For 141 years, scientists at Bluehill Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts have recorded the date the blueberry bush on their property produces its first ripe fruit.

This year, it was June 24. Michael Ayakono is the Chief Scientist at Bluehill. There's also changing slightly that date that we observe is now about a week earlier than it used to be about 100 years ago, and that's because the plants are responding to parameters that they're sensitive to the temperature of the rainfall, the sunshine.

Climate change has shifted those factors. Until data echoed what scientists see across nature, warmer springs have caused plants to flower earlier. For NBR News, I'm Bianca Garcia in Boston. The Labor Department reports at the number of people in the U.S. to file for unemployment

benefits last week, ticked down about 2,000 to 215,000. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington. This is our glass of the American Life. Do you know our show? Okay, well either way, I'm going to tell you about it.

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