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There could be further peace talks between the U.S. and Iran despite the Iranian health
“ministries claim that American air strikes in six cities this week had killed 17 people”
and injured more than 100 others. Phil and Marks has more." Iran's Foreign Minister arrived in the Omani capital of Muscat on Saturday with the possibility of further talks involving U.S. officials not yet publicly confirmed by either side.
If Iranian state backed far's news agencies said Iran will not enter into talks with American negotiators until the United States reverses its positions, as foreign minister Abbas Iraqi criticised the Trump administration for failing to uphold its side of a previous agreement. Earlier this week, Iranian forces fired on several commercial tankers in the state of
Formus, precipitating retaliatory U.S. air strikes across Iran.
On truth-social Friday, President Trump promised to decimate and destroy all areas of Iran, which would attempt to follow through on reported threats to assassinate him, for MPI news on Villa Marks.
“The largest housing bill in decades became law overnight without President Trump's signature.”
And PR Stephen Bassaha has the tales. His 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 U.S. to decrease the cost of by-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 ten days after he received
the bill from Congress and did not take any action. Stephen Bassaha and PR News Graham Platner has formally withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in the wake of
“sexual assault allegations, which he has denied, Democrats plan to meet for their state-nominating”
convention on July 25th. Meta 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, this move follows widespread backlash over privacy and copyright concerns.
Today, I, 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 sparks 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." In 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 P.R. News. This is NPR.
A wildfire destroyed a remote X-pad community in southern Spain overnight, at least 12 people were killed, as victims tried to outrun the flames in cars and on foot, several were heard and almost 2 dozen remain missing, officials say most of the victims died after ignoring shelter in place orders. Spain has advanced to the World Cup semi-files 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 that 11 minutes later, Belgium tied to that one-one.
It was the first goal given up by Spain in the entire World Cup.
It stayed that way until the 88th minute, that's when McElmerino kicked the rebound shot into the net for the win. David Lofido traveled here from Barcelona. We see that Spain has the best team in Europe in the world, we are going to be the work of.
That may be 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 and Miami tonight, Argentina plays Switzerland and Kansas City.
Ticket prices are still over $1,000, but down from previous highs, ticket resale site tick pick has tonight's Norway England game in 2000, a ticket down from almost $4,000. I'm Louise Kivone and PR News, Washington.
