Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Iran says it's close to an agreement that could allow commercial shipping to resume through
the state of corn moves.
“Officials say the proposed deal may not involve the United States and has not yet been”
finalized. Reporter Samir Hashmi has more from Dubai. Iran says it's directly negotiating with Oman and it's not talking to the United States. However, we heard from President Trump earlier this week saying that the U.S. was in talks with Iran and they were also discussing the reopening of the state of Hormus and he also
threatened that this was Iran's last chance for a deal, otherwise the U.S. would strike them again and he also said yesterday that he expects the reopening of the state of Hormus to be announced soon in the next few days and the talks have made progress. Samir Hashmi reporting roughly 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. have been stripped of their temporary legal status and PR's Adrian Florito reports they're now vulnerable
to detention and deportation weeks after the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration. TPS allows people from certain countries to live and work in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions in their home countries, people from Haiti have benefited from TPS since 2010.
“But President Trump moved to terminate their temporary status and in June the Supreme”
Court said he could do so that ruling has now taken effect. Haitians now face being deported to a country that even the Trump administration acknowledges is very dangerous. Armed gangs control much of Haiti, many of the 350,000 Haitians affected have U.S. born children. The administration is urging Haitians to self-deport and warning that it will come for them
if they don't. Adrian Florito and Pernus voters in Tennessee are heading to the polls today to choose their candidates for November. The primary follows a new round to redistricting after a Supreme Court ruling week in the Voting Rights Act.
Mariana Baqueyau of Member Station WPLN reports from Nashville. In a city just south of Nashville, voters are casting ballots in Tennessee's newly-re drawn at 9th congressional district.
“That district used to only consist of Memphis.”
Now it stretches some 250 miles to the middle of the state. Walter Owens is a military veteran who grew up attending segregated schools. He calls the redistricting on American. "Everyone should have the right to voice their pinch and I don't think anything should be done that excludes anyone from being able to have representation."
Because Owens says he remembers a time before it.
Republicans say that redistricting along partisan lines has always been a part of politics.
For NPR News, I'm Mariana Baqueyau in Nashville. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. As Senate Committee is expected to vote today on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress and refer the matter to the Justice Department, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during a hearing last week on his handling of the COVID-19
pandemic. Republican Chairman Rand Paul argues the protection does not apply because Fauci received a pardon from former President Joe Biden. The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo will visit South America later this year. Pompeo R. Jason D'Rose reports the pontiff is returning to a country he knows well.
Pope Leo plans to visit three countries in November, Oregon, Argentina, and Peru. The visit to Peru will be something of a homecoming for the pontiff. He first arrived in the country as a missionary in the 1980s and later served as a bishop there. In fact, he holds both Peruvian and U.S. citizenship.
Leo's visit to Argentina may prove bitter sweet for Catholics there.
His predecessor, Pope Francis, was from Buenos Aires, but never visited the country during
his 12-year papacy. The visit to Uruguay is meant to promote evangelization there, or only about 40% of the population is Catholic. Jason D'Rose and PR News The childhood home of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong is up for sale.
The house in Ohio has been preserved for nearly 40 years and contains photos and other space memorabilia, the owner is hoping a buyer will eventually donate it to the Armstrong Museum, but the property has no legal protection from future changes. I'm Windsor Johnston and PR News in Washington. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, another progressive Democrat, Edges Out and Establishment
Candidate. Abdul Elsead, one Michigan Senate primary campaigning on affordability, healthcare, and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. Join us as we break down his victory and what it could signal for November's mid-terps on the NPR Politics podcast.
