"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
The largest housing bill in decades became law overnight without President Trump's
“signature as MPR's Stephen Bazaar reports.”
The law is meant to encourage home-building across the country." This law is packed with more than 40 different provisions, and at the heart of it is the idea of boosting the number of houses in the US to decrease the cost of by a home. The law encourages home-building, in part by loosening federal regulations, and offering financial carrots to communities that build more homes.
It also bans large investors from buying up more than 350 homes. A policy pushed by President Trump. Trump refused to sign the law to protest lawmakers not passing his voter idea election overhaul bill, the Save America Act. He did not veto the housing bill, and it automatically became law 10 days after he received
the bill from Congress and did not take any action.
Stephen Mazaar and PR News Graham Platner has formally withdrawn from the US Senate race in Maine in the wake of
“sexual assault allegations, which he's denied.”
The state's Democratic Party chair Charlie Dingman has confirmed on X that a formal process to fill the vacancies 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.
An culminating convention is slated for July 25th. Mazaar says it has removed a new feature allowing users to turn anyone's public photo into an artificial intelligence image. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the move follows widespread backlash over privacy and copyright concerns.
Mazaar's AI future amuse image automatically opted in users, meaning anyone with a public Instagram profile could have their photos turned into AI without their consent. That's Mark Swift blowback from many users, privacy advocates, and Hollywood, which criticized
“the AI image maker as a threat to copyright and a person's likeness.”
One user wrote on X quote, "Think about what that means, your kids, your precious moments, your face, metaphills entitled to it, and is betting you won't dig three menus deep to say no." And a statement that has said they heard the feedback that the feature missed the mark, saying it's intent, was to provide a useful creative tool on Instagram.
Bobby Allen and PR News In the South Eastern Missouri town of Lesterville, severe flooding Friday led to helicopter evacuations from a summer camp. More than 200 children and staff were lifted by Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopters from Camp Tom's sock.
Heavy rains had washed away roads in the surrounding area, even as the forecast called for continued rainfall. Rescus were also underway just south of St. Louis at the Bearcag getaway campground near the Black River, campers there climbed to the roof of a building to escape raging waters when the roof collapsed, there were no reports of fatalities or major injuries.
This is NPR News. Spain has advanced to the World Cup semi-finals with a two-to-one win over Belgium, Steve Futterman reports from Los Angeles. Spanish fans here in LA were ecstatic. The match wasn't decided until the final minutes, Spain, the favorite, jumped out to a
one-nothing lead at the 30-minute mark, but just 11 minutes later, Belgium tied it at one-one.
It was the first call giving up by Spain in the entire World Cup.
It stayed that way until the 88th minute, that's when McElmerino kicked a rebound shot into the net for the win. David Lofido traveled here from Barcelona. We've seen that Spain has the best team in Europe in the world, we're going to be the World Cup.
Maybe easier said than done next up for Spain, a semi-final match against the top-performing team in the World Cup, France. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the World Cup in Los Angeles. Six World Cup teams are left standing, later today, Norway plays England at Hardrock Stadium and Miami Gardens tonight, Argentina plays Switzerland at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
The ticket prices are still over $1,000, but down from previous highs, ticket-resale-site tick-pick has tonight's Norway-England game at roughly 2,000 a ticket down from almost 4,000. At Wimbledon, Yannick Sinner is still in the hunt for a repeat of his championship after beating seven-time winner Novak-Jogovic Friday.
He'll be playing Alexander Zvarev, who won the French Open in Paris. I'm Louise Skivoney, and PR News, Washington. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our game. Listen to the wait wait, don't tell me podcasts in the NPR app or wherever.
