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The 60-day deadline for the U.S. and Iran to start peace talks has now passed.
“The month-long conflict has sent gas prices, soaring in the U.S. and now military resources,”
like warships and interceptor missiles, are running short. And now is one of the few times that there will be no U.S. aircraft carriers in the Pacific region. And here's Emily Fang has more. The U.S. is Washington, a warship was in the Pacific, but has now been sent to relieve
the U.S. as Lincoln, also in the Middle East, which has already had its deployment extended. That's made the news because sailors aboard have been living under very, very tough conditions. Like the Washington, it was also in the Pacific when it was diverted. I've been speaking to Naval experts about this, and they say it could be weeks if not months until a replacement carrier formation is ready and arrives in the Pacific to replace
the Washington. And here's Emily Fang reporting. Photers in three states head to the polls today for primary elections. As Alaska public media's Eric Stone reports, voters on the last frontier are narrowing the
“field of racist for governor and congress.”
Alaska's Senate race has been the subject of millions in campaign spending and could decide control of the chamber to turn Republican Senator Dan Sullivan as facing off against Democrat Mary Peltole. They are all but guaranteed to take the top two spots at Alaska's nonpartisan top four primary ahead of the ranked choice general election in November.
But the race for the third and fourth spots is murkier.
I had the primary superpacks on both sides of spent millions to elevate marginal candidates. The race also features a teacher who shares the incumbent Sullivan's first and last name. A move of some Republicans, including President Trump, say, was meant to confuse voters. Voters will also narrow a 17 candidate field in the race to be Alaska's next governor. For NPR News, I'm Eric Stone in June.
A Russian court has sentenced a liberal politician to just over 11 years in prison for his peaceful opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine. As NPR's Charles Maine's reports from Moscow, the verdict comes amid a wider clampdown on anti-war views in Russia. Left Schlossberg is long been a leading voice with the liberal Yabla Kaparty, a local deputy
in his hometown of Skulf in Western Russia, often at odds with the Kremlin. Yet it's his opposition to the war in Ukraine that now leads to a jail cell, a court convicted Schlossberg of violating wartime censorship laws, a result of two online posts in which he condemned Russia's invasion of its neighbor. Schlossberg called the charges against him on constitutional and continued to cast the war as
a disaster from the courtroom.
His trial unfolded as a separate legal case against Yabla Kaparty, ultimately saw his party
ban from upcoming parliamentary elections, and the supporters cast as a sign of the Kremlin's fear of the public's growing opposition to the war. Charles Maine's impure news, Moscow, "You as future's contracts are trading mixed this morning, Dow futures are up about 5 points, Nasdaq futures are down 349 points that's down 1.1%.
You're listening to NPR news." Amazon has changed its terms of service to give a more protection against class action lawsuits. The company brought back an arbitration agreement that will generally require shoppers to resolve any disputes outside the court system.
And here's Alina Seljuk, has more. Amazon says anyone who uses its services now automatically bound by its new legal clauses, they're aimed at preventing customers from filing class action lawsuits. They also require any grievances against the company be resolved privately through arbitration rather than in front of a judge or a jury.
People can still file in small claims court, a note that Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters. Amazon previously removed to this kind of arbitration clause about 5 years ago after facing tens of thousands of claims over allegations the company's smart speaker recorded without permission.
Amazon's new terms have a way to handle a potential repeat by settling any waves of similar claims in batches. Alina Seljuk and PR News. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that exemptions from routine vaccines among kindergartners has increased to 4.2% during the last school year.
That's a record. That's up 3.6% from the 2024 to 2025 school year. The CDC says the majority of those exemptions were for non-medical reasons including personal or religious. During a record breaking year of measles cases, the percentage of kindergartners who received
the measles, moms, rebella vaccine inch down to 92.4% and that's below the 95% rate. The threshold doctors say is needed to maintain immunity. This is NPR. This week on up 1st, the midterms and the Middle East were tracking major primary elections in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming and abroad, the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner
pursues a peace plan in Gaza.
“Plus, the U.S. Iran ceasefire hits a crucial 60-day deadline.”
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