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There was a positive tax between United States and Iran over the weekend.
“The U.S. says the halt is giving space for potential negotiations.”
Here's NPR's Jane Arath." The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, told NBC the pause as meant to give, quote, "talks some space." Iran was a bit more reticent, foreign ministry spokesman, and a smile Bahra'i said mediators were exchanging messages. But there were known negotiations with the U.S. going on,
and Iran had not requested a return to talks. And while Iran has paused a tax in Jordan and the Gulf, most of the main to U.S. bases, its Yemeni allies have not. Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck Saudi oil assets over the weekend to reinforce their control over a second shipping lane.
Babam Mendeb, Jane Arath, NPR News, among. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to visit with President Trump tomorrow in Washington. He's expected to urge the U.S. to continue its military campaign against Iran. But President Trump's attempting to bring U.S. hostilities with Iran to an end at a time when he's facing low public approval ratings over the war,
gas prices and his overall handling of the U.S. economy according to polls.
“Several shooting victims have been or are being released from the hospital”
today following a mass shooting at a food festival in Seattle, Washington yesterday. Three people were killed. Police say one person was arrested, but a second person may also be involved. Casey Martin with member station KUOW is following the investigation
into the shooting near the space needle. Local police said they're getting help from the state patrol and also the FBI. The park is closed and will be for a while they said. And now police need the public's help for video as there were no surveillance cameras right where the shooting happened.
So that will be an ongoing conversation about public safety here. That's Casey Martin reporting. The gory how international bridge between Detroit and Windsor in Ontario Canada is reopening today. As Alex McClennon of member station WDET tells us it comes to medical
tension between Canada and the U.S. U.S. officials were not invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the span
held in Ontario after Donald Trump placed 50 percent tariffs on Canada.
Still Canadian officials are highlighting the gory how bridge as a testament to the relationship between the two countries. Mark Wiseman is Canada's ambassador to the U.S. Where we stand today is truly one region. It is a place of two nations with a shared community.
The new span will give drivers crossing the Detroit river and alternative to the existing ambassador bridge, which has been the corridor's only option for commercial truck drivers for nearly a century. If you are news, I'm Alex McClennon and Detroit. U.S. stocks mixed with the Dow up 123 now and the Nasdaq is down more than
a hundred points. You're listening to NPR news. Five states are set to hold primaries a week from tomorrow. One of them is a battleground state of Michigan. It's where President Trump's expected to defend his handling of the economy when he
visits mill for today. His sweeping tariffs have affected many businesses in the state that voted for Trump in 2024. The Native American languages are at risk of vanishing. But NPR's Caden Mills met a 12-year-old in Michigan who's hoping to change that.
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Holden Hoy is building a robot that speaks the Ojibwe language. That was already a big fan of robotics and on Mojibwe.
So I've always wanted to say the Ojibwe language.
Hoy's robot sort of resembles a mini R2D2 from Star Wars. If he was designed in Native American woodland florals. It's fun because you can have like a personalized little robot body on your shoulder. But it also teaches you Ojibwe.
“You can ask it things like, how do you say bear in Ojibwe?”
And it will respond. Muckwell means bear. Hoy says it's important to protect the language because Generation after generation is based around this culture. The language is the culture.
Caden Mills and PR news, Su Saint Marie, Michigan. Friends and Spain are racing for high or temperatures later this week and even more unbearable heat wave. The stretch of hot weather and little rainfall have contributed to historic wildfires and force hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate and Spain.
Firefighters say the flames would become so dangerous. They've been unable to tackle them head on. However, some sound a relief today in Southwest and France with some indication that a fire in that region has slowed. You're listening to NPR News.
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