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“President Trump says talks with Iran will resume today”
after he backed out of threats to unleash another round of heavy strikes on Iran over the weekend. And Perez-Hidil Al-Shelchee reports. - We're yet to hear about what the potential deal could look like, what those parameters are.
We haven't heard from the Iranians about the deal. We do know that over the weekend Iran's foreign minister had a whole series of phone calls with Saudi Arabia Turkey and mediator Pakistan, he also told them that Iran will strike if it is attacked again.
This has become a cyclical pattern. A Trump threatens strikes, pulls back saying diplomatic solution has been reached to rinse and repeat. - And Perez-Hidil Al-Shelchee reporting. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, officially withdrew
President Trump's 1.8 $1.8 billion anti-weaponization
fund last night. The controversial fund would have compensated Trump's political allies and possibly violent rioters who attacked police at the US Capitol on January 6th of 2021. This year, four left challengers have
notched upset wins against democratic incumbents in deep blue congressional districts. This week, we learn if it holds in the high-sticks Michigan Senate primary as in Perez-Tamara Ketherports. - Control of Congress is on the line in this race
that mirrors a broader democratic party debate. Choose your fighter a more moderate candidate backed by the party establishment or a populist progressive. Near a tandem of the Center for American Progress is worried about the general election.
- The question is, can they be Republicans, which, you know, here to four has been untested? Adam Green is co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. - We consider the Michigan Senate race ground zero
in the battle for this all of a democratic party.
“- And an important harbinger of what is possible in the general election.”
- He argues this is an outsider moment. Tamar Keith and PR news. - In Arizona, temperatures reach to record 115 degrees on Sunday. From Member Station KJZC Cathern Davis Young reports because of the heat,
public cooling centers are seeing high demand.
- At the first United Church of Christ
in downtown Phoenix, cooling center stappers say lately there have been lines at the door before they even open in the mornings. Johnathan Nelson is one of the regulars. - Coming in every day because the heat's really, really bad.
I've been a hospital because of the heat. I've been a kidney failure because of heat. - Nelson has been homeless in Phoenix for 15 years, but he says this has been his hardest summer yet. If not for this site, he says he might not survive.
- I'd probably dead, honestly. I'd probably dead because of the heat. And I know it's killing a lot of people out there too. - Maricopa County confirmed over 1600. He related deaths in the past three years.
Nearly half of those were among people experiencing homelessness. For NPR News, I'm Katherine Davis-Young in Phoenix. - This is NPR News. - Tens of thousands of people were evacuated near Spokane,
Spokane, Washington over the weekend. Fire officials and law enforcement say wildfires destroyed at least 600 homes and businesses. Residents of Cairo were woken from their sleep Sunday morning by an earthquake
that shook buildings around three a.m. local time. Then, Piers, Iowa trial reports that are no immediate reports or injuries or collapse buildings in the Egyptian capital. - The U.S. geological survey says
this one hid at a depth of six miles, just northeast of the Suez Canal. It says the Quakes magnitude topped 5.0. In Cairo, more than 100 miles west of the epicenter, panic residents felt their buildings swaying
in the middle of the night. The earthquake was also felt east of the Suez Canal and parts of the Palestinian Gaza Strip and in southern Israel according to local media there. Earthquakes are rare in Egypt, but not unheard of.
A 1992 Quake killed more than 500 people and injured thousands more in Cairo. I Abatroi, and Piers News.
- The first Republican woman elected to represent Texas
in Washington, D.C. has died at the age of 83. K. Granger served for nearly three decades in Congress. Before this, she was the first female mayor of Fort Worth from 1991 to 1995. The current mayor, Maddie Parker,
called Granger a trailblazer and tenacious leader. House Speaker Mike Johnson announcing her death on social media said, "Granger broke barriers for women in public service, including as the first Republican woman
to chair the House Appropriations Committee." You're listening to NPR News from New York City.
“- Have you ever been so upset that you can't even think straight?”
- When we're distressed in a high anxiety, we tend to breathe from our chest, which is actually more hyperventilating and is the opposite of relaxing. So we want to breathe from our belly area.
- This week on LifeKit podcast, tips for those painful, stressful moments, listen to LifeKit on the NPR app
