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President Trump says he's agreed to resume talks with Iran, but he says the ceasefire
is over. It appears Franco or Donus has more.
“President Trump says Iran's leaders reached out to his team asking to continue talks”
and that they've agreed to do so, but he says in a true social post that the U.S. has stated to them, quote, "in no uncertain terms that the ceasefire is over." U.S. and Iran have been trading significant strikes over the last few days, raising concerns about whether the two sides would be able to reach a final deal to end the war. Trump, who just returned to Washington from the NATO Summit in Turkey, warned that more
strikes were coming in retribution for Iranian strikes on ships sailing through the straight of Hormuz. But he also insisted that the U.S. would not be returning to full-scale warfare with Iran.
Franco or Donus and Pyrenees, the White House
In Houston, lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of a Mexican immigrant by ICE agents as witnesses contradict a DHS statement. Houston Public Media's Kyle McLeanigan has more. The shooting took place on Tuesday, in the district of Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia.
“She says the acting director of ICE told her officers when after the wrong person.”
He confirmed that lovinsel's agatherer and will have was not the target of the operation. Nor was his brother, who was a passenger in the vehicle. An ICE spokesman says officers open fire after the driver attempted to run them over. Attorney Hugo Balderis represents two of the men who were in the van at the time of the incident. They confirmed that at no point was there ever an ICE agent directly in front of the vehicle.
They also confirmed that the shots came from the sides, not from the front, which is inconsistent
with the ICE agents statement.
The local district attorney is also launching his own investigation. For NPR News, I'm Kyle McLeanigan, in Houston. The education department is trying to reassure disability advocates about plans to move the agency special ed offices elsewhere in the federal government. And Pyrenees Genaki Mitha has more.
For months, the disability community has been on edge about the special education office moving
“to the Department of Health and Human Services.”
According to a recording of the call obtained by NPR, Kelly Rogers, who oversees that office, said the staff with expertise in special education will move to HHS, but that she would continue to oversee them from her purge at the education department. She promised that federal funds and oversight of special education laws would not be disrupted by the changes.
Several advocates told NPR they left the call more concerned about how this move would improve the lives of students and educators. They worried the changes will make it more confusing for student state leaders and families to know where to turn if the rights of students with disabilities are not being met in schools. Genaki Mitha and Pyrenees, you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Graham Platner, Maine's Democratic nominee for US Senate, is officially out of the race. The Maine Secretary of State says Platner filed the necessary paperwork to withdraw his candidacy two days after announcing he'd planned to do so following an accusation of rape by a formal girlfriend. He denies the claims.
The Maine Democratic Party now has until July 27 to pick his replacement. Syria says it apprehended the people behind two bombs that went off earlier this week during a state visit by France's president. It appears Emily Feng has more. The bombs were sent near the Upscale Hotel in Central Damascus where French President
Emmanuel Macron had been staying earlier this week. Syria security forces say they've now arrested several suspects who they said were linked to the extremist group ISIS. Syria published videos of the arrest rates in Damascus' suburbs, but they still have not announced any leads in a separate bombing in a Damascus cafe earlier this month which
killed nine people. While violence is overall down in Syria since the end of the Civil War, a handful of deadly explosions linked to ISIS and sectarian attacks on Syria's minority groups have challenged the country's new government to provide stability, Emily Feng and Pyreneus. In men's World Cup soccer, Spain beat Belgium today in Los Angeles to to one in extra
time that's in Spain to the semi-finals Tuesday against France. While street higher by the closing bell that out of 149 points the NASDAQ, up 74, the S&P 500, up 31. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is over.
This week on Consider This, a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat shares his thoughts on what could happen next. The rulers in Tehran clearly believe they have a stronger will than the United States. I don't think there are any good options. That's this week on Consider This.
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