Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiewone.
President Trump has threatened more strikes on Iran and response to what he says are
threats to assassinate him.
“But as NPR's Emily Fang reports, both Iran and the USA, they are also open to resuming”
peace talks. Trump wrote on truth social that, quote, "one thousand missiles are locked and loaded in aimed at Iran should Iran try to act on what he says are threats to assassinate him." And quote, "many corners of the globe," but in a separate earlier post, the President also wrote that the US had agreed to resume talks with Iran.
This week, the US launch strikes on dozens of sites across Iran after accusing Tehran of attacking ships in the straight of Ramos. The US has been pushing Iran to declare the straight open. Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson blamed the US for the recent escalation, saying it was
the US who violated a ceasefire first and that breaching commitments with an American
quote, "habit," Emily Fang and Pernus. In Washington, a sweeping housing affordability bill became law overnight without a presidential veto or signature.
“The National Weather Service says a dangerous heat wave will settle in this weekend over”
parts of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas. More castors say temperatures will be 100 and above, and there's a solid chance that heat records will be broken. Best advice says the Weather Service is to stay inside with air conditioning, if possible. When outside, lightweight, light-closed, colored clothes and plenty of water are recommended.
In California, there were evacuation orders and warnings in place on Friday, as the summit fire grew to around 2,700 acres. Firefighters have launched a massive air and grounded tack on the fast-moving blaze. Drew Everett lives in Apple Valley, and 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. It was a mixed week on Wall Street as NPRS God-Horsely reports, traders mostly shrugged off the renewed fighting in the straight-of-war moves and the effect on gas prices.
Crewdall 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 6.5%. 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 SK Heinix began trading there for the first time, for the week the NASDAQ rose 1 and 3/4% the S&P 500 index rose 1 and a quarter percent, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell
about 4/10 percent. It's got Horsesley and Pyrenees, Washington.
This is NPR. Apple is suing the artificial intelligence company OpenAI at a top executive alleging they stole trade secrets, the civil suit filed in federal court, NPR's John Ruich reports. Apple is accusing two former employees who went to work for OpenAI of stealing confidential information.
One of the two people is OpenAI's chief hardware officer who leads the company's efforts to develop consumer AI devices. The other worked on sensitive product development programs at Apple before moving to OpenAI. The lawsuit accuses them of illegally accessing Apple computers and files, and it alleges that OpenAI has at every level, and in coordination with business partners, been stealing
Apple's trade secrets and confidential information. The two companies had partnered together to fold AI into Apple's series, but that fell through, and Apple is now working with Google to improve the digital assistant. OpenAI did not respond to an NPR request for comment, John Ruich and PR News. The New York Times is reporting that the Trump administration has issued subpoenas to several
of its reporters in connection with the story about the president's travel out of Turkey.
“The paper reported that sighting security concerns the secret service had recommended”
that Trump not fly out of the NATO summit on the new Air Force 1, an aircraft gifted to the President by Qatar, an older US-built Air Force 1 was used instead. The New York Times says the subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal ground jury in Manhattan on Wednesday. President Trump has said that change in planes was not due to security concerns.
I'm Louis Skivoni and PR News, Washington. This week on Waitwaitao Tell me 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 bandrana.
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