"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
Iran's foreign minister is in Oman today for talks over control of the straight-of-war
moves. This comes as Iran and the U.S. traded fired this week, which NPR's Emily Feng reports ended a temporary ceasefire between the two countries. Iran's Abbas Iraq G is in the Gulf Country of Oman today. The two countries have been trying to hammer out an agreement to open the straight-of-war
moves, but Oman is against Iran's proposal for Tehran to collect mandatory tolls on ships passing through.
“Oman has been an important diplomatic back channel between the U.S. and Iran as well.”
And the U.S. has tried to open a safe maritime channel that hugs Oman's coast and bypasses Iranian control of the straight, but ship traffic is over-slowed after the U.S. and Iran fired at each other's military assets this week.
Ship tracking data shows the number of vessels making it through the straight-of-war
moves dropping by nearly half on Thursday, Emily Feng and Pernus. Graham Platner has formally withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in the wake of sexual assault allegations which he has denied. The state's Democratic Party chair Charlie Dingman has confirmed on X that a formal process to fill the vacancy is underway.
The convention will be fair, representative, and is transparent as possible. As we all come together in service of our ultimate goal, defeating Susan Collins and winning this Senate seat. A nominating convention is slated for July 25th. A sweeping housing affordability bill became law overnight without a presidential veto or signature,
“the president protesting congressional inaction on a strict voter ID bill.”
In California, there were evacuation orders and warnings in place on Friday as the summit fire grew to around 2,700 acres. Firefighters launching a massive air and ground attack on the fast-moving blaze. Drew, Everett, lives in Apple Valley. He's been watching it move.
Definitely have seen it start down low and we've seen it work its way up the mountain and it looks like it's kind of cresting over this ridge right now. The fire erupted in a sparsely populated area of Los Angeles County around 45 miles northeast of L.A. the American Red Cross has opened a shelter at a YMCA. Now fires in Europe are continuing to burn with the most deadly blazes this past week in Spain,
the Lamarks reports at least 12 are dead including four suspected British nationals. The severe wildfires are located in the country's Andalithia region. Hundreds of firefighters are working to contain the blaze that may have begun thanks to a downed power cable near the town of Almeria.
“Temperatures in southern Europe have been above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks so far”
the summer with major wildfires in France and Portugal too. Thousands of residents have been forced from their homes. Across Europe officials have detected more than 1,000 fires since the start of the year double the long-term average and since January wildfires have earned almost 400,000 acres of land.
The NPR news on the Lamarks. This is NPR. European Union officials are demanding meta-make changes to the so-called "addictive design of Facebook and Instagram" and PR's Bobby Allen has to tell. European officials are focusing on things like infinite scroll, auto-play, push notifications
and how the algorithm works on the social media apps. After a two-year probe, you investigator say those features are designed to hook users and they have to be scrapped or drastically changed or risk-heavy fines. EU law allows for penalties of up to 6% of a tech company's global revenue. meta-intense to fight the changes, saying in a statement that the EU is not considering the
steps meta has taken to protect teens. In its findings, EU regulators wrote that features like autoplay and hyper-personalized recommendations quote "fuel the user's urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into autopilot mode," Bobby Allen and PR news. At Wimbledon, Yannick Sinner is still in the hunt for a repeat of his championship after
beating seven-time winner Novak Jogovitch Friday to reach the Wimbledon final, he'll play
Alexander's vera of who recently won his first Grand Slam title at the Hardfought, French
Open and Swellering Paris. At the annual running of the Bulls event in Pamplona, Spain, one runner was Gordon the face during the San Fermin Festival, six Bulls and accompanying steers charged through the thrill-seekers, sprinting along narrow streets alongside the animals, a black bull broke away early ran into a group of people hit one on the side of the face.
It's been a hundred years since the publication of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun All So Rises," whose publication made the event famous. "I'm Louie Skivone and PR News," 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 May's junior. Listen to We Keep Us Safe on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
