"Life from NPR News in Washington, Ingenene Herbst.
delivered a defiant message, days after his father, Ayatollah Ali Hamani, was buried. He
“was killed in U.S. Israeli air strikes in February. His son, Mostaba, Hamani, has not been”
seen publicly since he took power in March. And here's Hadil Al-Chalci has more."
In his second audio address, Iran's current leader Ayatollah Mosh Tabah Hamani called his father's
killer's quote "criminals" and promised to uphold the late Supreme Leader's legacy. We pledged to take revenge for your pure blood and all the martyrs of these two wars Mosh Tabah Hamani said, referring to Iran's war with Israel in June 2025, and the current war with the U.S. and Israel. Like his first address in March, Mosh Tabah Hamani's speech was read by a news anchor on Iranian state media, and the leader did not appear on camera. Three of Ayatollah Ali Hamani's
sons attended his funeral this week, but his fourth son and successor Mosh Tabah Hamani was not seen publicly during the day's long procession. Hadil Al-Chalci and P.R. News Istanbul. "The biggest housing bill in 30 years became law at midnight without President Trump's
signature. He refused to sign the bipartisan bill saying it was a protest against the Senate
for not passing his voter ID bill. The housing bill contains dozens of provisions aimed at driving down the price of housing by boosting supply. Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters says the bill addresses the nation's housing crisis." In Los Angeles, over 70,000 of people are on the street every night in this country over 700,000,
“and so now in this bill, are we going to make it possible for people to have affordable housing?”
Trump's refusal to sign the housing bill, which he called "big yon" shortly after Congress passed it, represents a growing rift between him and Senate Republicans who didn't pass the voter ID measure, which includes strict ID requirements along with other measures the President has demanded, saying they didn't have enough votes to override Democratic opposition.
It was a mixed week on Wall Street, as Imperial Scott Horsley reports, traders mostly shrugged off the renewed fighting in the straight of Hormuz and the effect on retail gas prices has been limited. crude oil prices jumped after President Trump declared an end to the U.S. ceasefire with Iran, bond yields rose, and so did mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year
home loan is just under six and a half percent. The National Association of Realtors
“says home sales dropped in June, which is ordinarily one of the busiest months for selling.”
The average sales price for home jumped to a record high, the more than $440,000. The NASDAQ got a boost on Friday when shares the giant South Korean memory chip maker S.K. A high-nix began trading there for the first time, for the week that NASDAQ rose one and three quarters per cent, the S&P 500 index rose one and a quarter per cent, and that Aljo's industrial average fell about four tenths per cent.
And Pierre Scott Horsley, this is NPR. Today a World Cup double header starts at this hour with Norway facing England in Miami in the quarter final matchup. Later, Argentina and Leonardo Messi will face Switzerland in Kansas City in another duord I match to decide the last two semi-finalists. K-Von Antonio Heydary has more from Miami.
Norway, a nation of five and a half million people faces England, a former World Champion,
and home to the birthplace of the sport. But Norway, absent from the World Cup since 1998, has been a dark horse with one spearhead, Irling Holland, whose two goals helped eliminate Brazil. He's tallied seven goals so far. England eliminated Mexico three to two. The five o'clock Eastern time start means the heat and after noon storms of the South
Florida summers could be a factor. The winner will face Argentina, Switzerland, and next week semi-final in Atlanta. If England and Argentina advance, it will be a repeat of one of the games fiercest World Cup rivalries. They faced off in 1966, 86, 1998, and 2002. And PR news, I'm K-Von Antonio Heydary, in Miami. Less than a week after meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook rolled out a new
AI image generation model, the company changed its mind. This amid wide and rising criticism from Instagram users that the tool could make Instagram accounts fodder for use in creating AI-generated images. I'm Janine Herbst NPR News, in Washington. This week on WaitWate.com, we talked to legendary musician Jason Nerducey about being in a punk band when he was just 11 years old.
We broke up when I was 12. And yeah, I just felt like I needed to go through puberty without Bandra and I. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our game. Listen to the WaitWate. Don't tell me podcasts in the NPR app or wherever. You get your podcasts.
