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Environmentalist Rafe Pomerantz has died at the age of 79.

Pomerantz began sounding the alarm about climate change in the 1970s, as NPR's Julia Simon reports.

Jazz saxophonist known as a great improviser has died.

Sonny Rollins was 95, according to a statement from his publicist.

Rollins died Monday at his home in Woodstock, New York.

Rollins was a National Endowment for the Arts jazz master.

He also received a Kennedy Center honor and was a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she sees no issue with Mexico hosting Iran's World Cup soccer team.

After the team's base for the competition was moved from the U.S.

to Mexico, the Iranian team will still play its matches in the U.S., but its base has been moved to Tijuana, just south of San Diego.

Sheinbaum told a news conference that a FIFA representative told her that the U.S.

was reluctant to have the Iranian team spend time outside games on U.S.

territory.

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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

President Trump says negotiations with Iran are, in his words, proceeding nicely.

He made the remark on social media, but an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says an agreement is not imminent.

And NPR's Daniel Astrin says President Trump is trying to placate Israel with a call for more Middle Eastern and Muslim countries to join the Abraham Accords, which were brokered during Trump's first term in office.

NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting, it's not clear if Monday's U.S.

military strikes in southern Iran will impact the talks.