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Live from MPR News on child Snyder, Iran has released an American woman who's...

in the country for the past year and a half.

President Trump calls it a goodwill gesture, and her lawyer says the release would not

have happened without Trump's support, as Emperor's Michelle Kellerman reports. Dana Karari is a dual U.S. Iranian citizen who's been trapped in Iran since December of 2024, in a message on social media president Trump says she is now safely out side Iran and in good condition. Her lawyer, Jared Ganser, writes in the statement that Karari was subjected to what

he calls a coercive exit man and was interrogated dozens of times and suffered enormous hardships, though she was not in prison. He says she drew the attention of Iranian authorities because she runs a non-profit that has a U.S. Treasury Department license to collect private donor support for poor children in Iran, Michelle Kellerman, and B.R. News, Washington.

President Trump is bearing for a prime time at Dr. S. from the White House.

Tonight he is expected to discuss the election issues, Democrats warned that Trump could use his speech to stoke misleading claims ahead of the November midterms.

Main governor, Janet Mills, calling on Congress to dramatically reform immigration and customs

enforcement after this week's fatal shooting in the city of Bitterford, main public Michael Livingston reports. In a letter sent to Main's congressional delegation this week, Mills claimed Congress has failed to pass any substantial oversight of ICE despite numerous killings by agents. She suggested reforms such as banning ICE agents from covering their faces requiring them

to identify themselves where body cameras and implement better training. That doesn't happen, she wrote the agency should be abolished. We'd like to see more aggressive action on the part of the Congress to protect the lives of people across this country, not just in Bitterford, not just in Maine, but everywhere. Several Democrats seeking to challenge Main Senator Susan Collins for her seat say, "They'll

work to abolish the agency if elected." Federal and state law enforcement are still investigating the shooting as of Wednesday. For NPR News, unlike a Livingston in Portland, Maine.

A new chairman of the Federal Reserve Kevin Wars, fouling to put inflation in the rear

view mirror, he was on Capitol Hill Wednesday, appearing before the Senate Banking Committee here, since Piero Scott Horsley. We've got some encouraging news this week about prices at both the retail and the wholesale level, and both look a little better in June than they did the months before. That was largely thanks to drop in energy prices last month, resulting from the ceasefire

in the state of Formus.

First tension in the state have rekindled in July, so now energy prices are going up again.

And even if you strip out energy prices, overall inflation is still too high. It's been high for more than five years now. And Kevin Wars told senators, "If he and his colleagues do their jobs right, they will wrestle prices under control." And you're listening to NPR News.

Have be smoked from wildfires and Canada, and the Great Lakes region is moving across some Midwest and into the northeast this week, turning skies orange as a planet's temperature rises, smoke becoming more common across the country and Piero's A.V. burger reports. A combination of extreme heat and dry conditions in Ontario and northern Minnesota led to region wildfires.

Then this week, weather patterns force the smoke into the Great Lakes region and down the east coast of the U.S., health experts warn, wildfire smoke is dangerous. This made up of tiny particles that can be inhaled deep into a person's lungs and even enter the bloodstream. Here's how Dr. David Eisenman, a professor of medicine at UCLA, puts it.

There are studies of show effects on the heart with increased heart attacks and heart failure. There's strokes associated with it. Respiratory illnesses. Eisenman says, depending on air quality reports, reduce outdoor activity, use air filters and wear an N95 mask.

New burger and Piero News, an ash to weather service warning that widespread flooding could remain a threat in the Texas Hill country through at least Friday. Heavy downpours have been drenching the region this week. It'll save more than 40 people have been rescued from high water, with most of the rescues in the Gibaldi County area near least 60 Texas counties under a flood watch.

World Cup final is set, defending champion Argentina rallied Wednesday in the final minutes of regulation scoring twice to beat England two goals to one Argentina won outplay Spain and Sunday's World Cup final in New Jersey. I'm trial Snyder, this is in PR News. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old

left in the family's garage. He told me you've no make me proud. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. "I need some a ref me, just as for my son."

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