Live from the NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Plan talks aimed at ending the war between the U.S. and Iran are now in doubt.
“Negotiators had hoped to meet after today's burial of Iran's former Supreme Leader.”
But as NPR's Emily Fang reports, both countries are accusing the other of violating the ceasefire, clouting the prospects for renewed diplomacy. President Trump has said he does not care if Negotiators' resume talks.
Iran meanwhile lodged a complaint with the United Nations this week after a first-round
of U.S. strike 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 moxin reside, a former military commander in a Pfizer to the Supreme Leader's office, referenced
a line from the core on, and opposed on ex about reciprocal punishment, which ends "the transgressing enemy in his accomplices will be punished." Emily Fang and Pyreneus Democrats and Maine are searching for a new U.S. Senate candidate after Democrat Graham
“Plattener suspended his campaign last night.”
Plattener stepped aside after a woman accused him of rape, he's repeatedly denied that
allegation, as well as other claims of sexual misconduct. In PRs, Elena Moore reports the state's Democratic Party has just over two weeks to choose a replacement to challenge Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. Democrats need a new nominee, an ASAP. The stakes are really high because the party wants to win back the Senate.
They need to pick up seats, and many think that Maine's current Senator, longtime incumbent Republican Susan Collins, is beatable. Maine election law says that Democrats haven't told July 27 to get a replacement candidate on the ballot, and the state's Democratic Party says it plans to hold a nominating convention to pick a new nominee.
That's NPRs, Elena Moore reporting. Officials in New York City are working to determine what caused structural columns to nearly
“snap inside of a high-rise building in Midtown, Manhattan this week.”
David Brand from Member Station, W.Y.C. reports it led to a large scale evacuation of the surrounding area. New York City mayors Iran-Mondani says engineers have not yet identified the exact reason for the near-catastrophic structural failure. Columns bent and floors sagged beneath a ten-story addition to the former office building.
Police and firefighters evacuated the tower, and several surrounding buildings over fears of a possible collapse. But city officials deemed the structure stable by Wednesday morning. Mondani says crews spent the past day shoring up most of the building floors. The project on East 42nd Street calls for 1600 new apartments.
It's the largest office to housing conversion in the city. For MPR News, I'm David Brand in New York. This is NPR News in Washington. A massive wildfire in southern Colorado has grown to nearly 100,000 acres after another day of strong winds.
Firefighters are also responding to another fast-moving blaze in the southwestern part of the state. Hot dry weather and gusty winds continue to create dangerous fire conditions across many parts of the west. Parts of western Europe are in the grips of another heat wave, NPR, Zellon Erbeardsly
reports, temperatures, and France are expected to top 100 degrees. The health ministry reminds listeners to drink water, avoid physical exertions, stay in the shade, and call 15 if they come across anyone with a fever or delirious, possible signs of heat stroke. During the last heat wave in June, deaths rose 62% in the region of Paris, Europe's most
densely populated city.
The third major heat wave of the year is expected to be both intense and prolonged.
Its cause is a high pressure system positioned off the coast of Portugal and the British Isles that is trapping heat from North Africa over the continent. Scientists say it's a blocking pattern exacerbated by climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, Eleanor Beardsley and PR News Paris. The World Cup Quarter Finals can underway today with France facing Morocco, Spain leads
Belgium on Friday followed Saturday by Norway against England and Argentina taking on Switzerland. The winner's advanced to next week's semi-finals as the tournament enters its final stages. I'm Windsor-Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. For three weeks in 2020, part of my Seattle neighborhood was taken over by a protest occupation. We were here to protest police brutality, but it ended in tragedy.
The whole space felt darker and angrier. Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio Maze Jr. Listen to We Keep Us Safe on the Abetted Podcast from NPR.
