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"Live from MPR News, I'm trial Snyder.

Iran's late Supreme Leader has been laid to rest following a week of funeral perceptions, rallies and morning ceremonies, huge crowds gathered early today for the Ayatollah Ali, Aminay's funeral in Northeast Iran. Aminay was killed in the opening strikes of the war, and his funeral came as the U.S.

Iran exchanged fire for a second day.

Iran's health ministry says that at least 14 people were killed by the U.S. Airstrikes and nearly 80 others wounded. President Trump is calling Iranian leaders scum, just weeks after praising them as smart and rational people. In Paris, Franco-Ordon is reports on the diplomatic whiplash that has come to define Trump's

approach to global affairs." Three weeks ago, President Trump described the Iranians as brave people who wanted to change the direction of their country for the better.

"We're dealing with people that I think are very rational people.

I mean, we're nice to deal with those strong people, smart people." But he delivered a much different characterization yesterday at the night of summit in Turkey.

"I don't want to deal with them anymore, there's scum, you know, scum is, there's scum,

there's sick people, they're led by sick people." It's part of a pattern with the President who often swings between praise and threats, and an effort to almost will this war to an end. But you can also hear Trump struggling with that balance, insisting to reporters later that the war will not start again, Franco-Ordonia's NPR News.

"And you talk, Kirk, family, lawyer, Jeffrey Neiman says a judge who will decide whether there is enough evidence to move the case against the man accused of killing conservative activists, Charlie Kirk to trial should view everything." "The Kirk family's waited 10 months for this hearing. And they have a right to be here, and they have a right to hear the evidence.

They have a right to see and feel what's going on in this courtroom."

Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder.

He is not entered a plea. Defense attorneys fought to keep out a public view of recorded interview with Robinson's former roommate and romantic partner, in which he said that Robinson told him that he wishes he had not done it. Goldman Sachs banning employees from betting on prediction markets like calcium, poly-market.

And here's Bobby Allen reports on the latest investment bank to warn staff about abusing confidential information. Johnson markets offer betting on many topics involving finance, whether it's a company's quarterly earnings, or what an analyst will say on an investor call or when a company will introduce a new service.

The new rule from Goldman Sachs prohibits employees from placing bets on future outcomes related to finance, corporate America, elections, or geopolitics, it does allow for employees to wage your own sports and entertainment. Billions of dollars are traded every week on prediction market sites, which are largely

unregulated, despite the new rule Goldman Sachs' CEO David Solomon said earlier this year

that prediction markets were "superinteresting" and that he had met with prediction market executives over possible partnerships, Bobby Allen and PR news. This is NPR News, a federal panel has advanced President Trump's proposed 250 foot arch to the next stage of review, but it's also gearing up for a debate over its height as impairs Rachel Treesman reports.

After hearing more than two hours of public pushback on Thursday, it wants the Department of the Interior to come back in September with more details about things like pedestrian access and lighting plans. The Commission Chair, a Trump appointee, says that's when it will consider whether DC's "hight limits" apply to the arch.

The administration is arguing that federal projects should be exempt, which contradicts decades of precedent. The Commission's lawyer says changing that could reshape the city, Rachel Treesman and PR News. The main Democratic Party says it's working on a plan to replace Graham Plattener as a U.S.

Senate nominee that party has released a statement saying it will host a nominating convention that party has less than three weeks to register a new nominee with the main secretary of state. Andy Burnham is on course to become the next British Prime Minister and the first nomination in Tally, Burnham secured the backing of 322 of the 403 Labour Party members of Parliament.

Dominations remain open for another week, but Burnham is almost certain to be the sole candidate. U.S. soccer Federation says American star Christian Polistics suffered a micro-fracture and bone bruised to his right leg during the U.S. World Cup lost a Belgium. The Federation says a diagnosis that made Tuesday after an X-ray in MRI.

"I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News."

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