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A bipartisan housing affordability bill could still become law this weekend without President Trump's signature.
“Today, the Republican leader wrote on social media that he was declining to sign the”
legislation and protest of Congress's inability to pass a more strict voter ID bill. As the U.S. any Ron continued to trade fire, Iran lead to rest of Premier Leader Ali Hamanate, who was assassinated on the first day of the U.S. is real war with Iran.
The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called for revenge.
As MPR's Hadeel Al-Shalci reports the Iranian commander is rarely seen in public, but made an exception to attend Hamanese funeral. Brigadier General Ahmad Wahidi said the death of Ayatollah Ali Hamanay was the beginning of a quote new chapter of honor and perseverance in Iran. In a statement he called Hamanay, who was killed at the start of the U.S. Israeli War against
Iran, a martyr, and that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard will not rest until justice is served. While the Hadeel occasionally issues public statements, his attendance at Hamanay's funeral was the first public appearance since the start of the war.
“Hadeel publicly performed funeral prayers with three of Hamanay's sons, Hamanay's fourth”
son and current Iranian leader was not seen during the week-long funeral procession. Hadeel Al-Shalci and PR News, Istanbul. Countries across Asia and Africa are turning to solar batteries and electric vehicles at a faster clip as oil prices remain volatile because of the U.S. Iran War. Here's an opinion.
For these countries, it's a deliberate strategy to decrease their dependence on precarious natural gas and oil markets, most of the EV's solar embattories come from China.
The Philippines imported more than $470 million in Chinese solar panels from February
to May, that's a 139% increase from a year ago. As for EV's, China exported more than $2 million electric passenger vehicles between January and May, a recent analysis note from consultant CCA Energy Rights, if China's car industry were handing out a salesman of the year award for 2026, President Trump would be a leading contender, Julia Simon and PR News.
“Hundreds of thousands of Syrian and Haitian immigrants living legally in the U.S. are closed”
to losing their ability to work in the country. Spring Court recently cleared the path for the administration to revoke the temporary protected status, Katherine Mobily, a conversation of UYSOs, and Springfield, Ohio, and a large Haitian community. In Springfield, there's a place called the Haitian Support Center, and they've been
fielding calls from people who have questions about their immigration papers, what they can do. Meanwhile, many non-profits are encouraging these individuals who used to have TPS to apply for asylum, but that's a very slow process, and it's not any protection from being deported.
WYSOs, Katherine Mobily, reporting this is NPR News. In Provo, Utah lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activists Charlie Kirk are expected to call a final witness to the stand today. They are attempting to convince the court the prosecutors do not have enough evidence to put Tyler Robinson on trial for aggravated murder.
Kirk was killed during a speaking engagement on the campus of Utah Valley University last September. The European Union alleges Instagram and Facebook's parent company design their platforms to get young users hooked in violation of EU law. Today, the EU's executive arm called on Meta to disable infinite scrolling and other features
it views as contributors to social media addiction. That is installed features for users to manage usage, but critics say they're not enough. Diving seabirds, they are the inspiration for a new kind of robot when they can fly and swim, and Piers Ari Daniels offers more insight into the technological muse. The robot's central body houses the motor, battery, and electronics.
The wings are made from a flexible nylon fabric. The wingspan's not quite three feet, and the whole package weighs about half a pound.
To leave the water, the robot must flap its wings ten times a second.
Raphael Zufre is a mechanical engineer at MIT. We need to lift the robot out and there require a huge amount of thrust. Zufre is excited by the possible applications of such a robot, including monitoring harmful algal blooms and coastal erosion. That's NPR's Ari Daniel reporting.
U.S. stocks are trading higher with the Dow up nearly a hundred points. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News Fram Platner is out. On the latest NPR politics podcast, we are unpacking the downfall of a candidate once seen as a standard bearer for Democrats, plus what Platner's exit from the main Senate race could
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