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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Iran conflict?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump says he is not satisfied with Iran's latest proposal to end the war. NPR's Frank Ordonez reports Trump says Iran is asking for things he cannot agree with.
President Trump says Iran wants to make a deal and that negotiations are continuing, but that it's difficult to make progress because of Iran's disjointed leadership. He says his team is trying to negotiate with two to four different groups of Iranian leaders.
And it puts us in a bad position. One group wants to make a certain deal. The other group wants to make a certain deal.
Speaking outside the White House on his way to Florida, Trump says negotiations continue by phone and that they've made strides during these talks. But he also said he wasn't sure if the Iranians would ever get to where they needed to be.
Chapter 2: How are rising gas prices impacting American consumers?
Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
The Iran wars hit 60 days, but lawmakers disagree on whether that means today is the deadline under federal law for Congress to intervene. President Trump says he does not need congressional authorization for the conflict because, as he sees it, last month's U.S.-Iran ceasefire terminated hostilities that began at the end of February.
Oil shipment disruptions out of the Strait of Hormuz persist, though. In the U.S., gas prices have soared again this week. The Auto Club AAA saying the average national cost for a gallon of regular gasoline jumped 9 cents overnight. It's almost $4.40. That's up more than 30 cents in a week. Rising energy prices mean higher costs for consumers.
Business analyst Jill Schlesinger says Americans need to watch their spending.
Chapter 3: What role are tech companies playing in military operations?
It is important to just budget in for this. Just know if you can find $50 or $100 somewhere for every month that you could pull back, even if it means a little bit less fun, be prepared. This is not going away anytime soon.
Schlesinger speaking with NPR's Morning Edition. Major tech companies including Amazon and NVIDIA are set to expand their classified military work. NPR's Bobby Allen reports the administration announced new deals to tap leading Silicon Valley firms for battlefield operations.
Pentagon officials say Microsoft, Amazon, Google, OpenAI and other companies will soon make the U.S. military an AI-first fighting force. The Pentagon's new deals mean cutting edge AI tools will be used to generate target lists for military strikes and to analyze data before deploying lethal weapons.
The deals come as Anthropic refuses to let the Defense Department use its technology for things like mass surveillance and autonomous drones.
Chapter 4: What recent developments have occurred in the UK regarding terrorism?
Anthropic's pushback has led to litigation and President Trump ordering the federal government to cut ties with the company. Trump officials are hoping the new deals with Silicon Valley's biggest players will lead to a compromise from Anthropic, which did not return a request for comment. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
This is NPR. British authorities charged a 45-year-old man in connection with an attack investigators described as an act of terrorism. They say Esa Suleiman is accused of attacking a longtime friend, In South London, before he took a train to the north part of the city and targeted Jewish people, two Jewish men sustained stab wounds.
An Israeli man who was detained in Israel for wearing a skullcap or kippah with an Israeli and Palestinian flag on it has been in the news in this country. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley sat down with him in Tel Aviv to hear his story.
Academic and religious Jew Alex Sinclair says he began wearing a kippah with both flags stitched into it many years ago because he didn't want to be put in a certain box.
Chapter 5: How does the artist Banksy comment on patriotism?
People see you wearing a kippah, they think that you're pro-settler, anti-Palestinian, right-wing, orthodox, fundamentalist. And that's a box that's very far from who I am and from my values and from my Judaism and from my Zionism.
Sinclair believes in coexistence and supports the creation of a Palestinian state. He was briefly detained for incitement. The police cut the Palestinian flag out of his kippah. Sinclair feels Israeli society has become more fearful and less tolerant since the 2023 Hamas attack. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The famed artist Banksy has again left his mark, this time with a statue of a man blinded by a billowing flag. Observers speculate the work that surfaced this week in central London is about blind patriotism. Some were also left wondering how Banksy managed the installation in an area so close to Buckingham Palace.
Chapter 6: What challenges does FEMA face as hurricane season approaches?
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As hurricane season approaches, a political storm is brewing at the Federal Disaster Agency. I've never been a big fan of FEMA. It really doesn't get the job done. But can we afford to lose this vital agency? Whenever there's a disaster, the first thing people say is, where's FEMA? American Emergency, the movement to kill FEMA, is a brand new series from WNYC's On The Media.
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