NPR News: 06-08-2026 1PM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What is President Trump's stance on the U.S.-Iran peace deal?
President Trump tells the Financial Times that when it comes to a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran, he calls the shots not Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. On social media, Trump wrote, Israel and Iran are looking for an immediate ceasefire. This more than three months after the U.S. and Israel initiated hostilities with Iran. Israel and Iran renewed fighting, even though Trump has publicly urged both to stop. Today, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman accused the U.S. of helping Israel.
What recent developments have occurred in the Israel-Iran conflict?
Over the weekend, Iran and Israel traded airstrikes again for the first time since an April ceasefire, opening a new chapter in the war. Again, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said the United States is, quote, responsible for the consequences of any escalation in the Middle East. Dariya Baskaran has the latest from Istanbul.
Explosions were heard in multiple cities across Iran this morning. Israel says it targeted military facilities and a petrochemical complex in the southern city of Mashar. A young man in Iran who asked to remain anonymous due to the risk of arrest for speaking to foreign media said the repeated cycles of war have made it meaningless to talk about fear or hope. He says many people around him feel rebellious and nihilistic. They wish for the destruction of everything, he says, just to free themselves from this chain of repetitions and the empty words. For MPR News, I'm Dori Bouskaran in Istanbul.
Red flags about Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ability to protect taxpayer information are raised in the Treasury Inspector General's new report. Since ICE and the Internal Revenue Service agreed last year to share taxpayer data, the report finds errors stemming from inconsistent formatting in ICE's data and the IRS's matching criteria. A second case of a parasitic fly known as the New World Screwworm is confirmed at a Texas ranch, and USDA says there are two others elsewhere in the state, bringing the total so far to four. In San Antonio, Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton reports ranchers are demanding the Agriculture Department take aggressive measures and fast.
On Christian Biedenharn's family's ranch about two hours south of San Antonio, he says they're hoping for swift action from the U.S. government to produce more sterile flies, which tricked the wild insects into wasting their one chance at reproduction. We need those quarantine zones.
And we need funding as fast as possible. And we kind of need all the above strategies right now, just given what seems to be a delay in getting production and volumes online.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller last week criticized the USDA for what he called a slow, bureaucratic, and incomplete response to the threat. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced last week he's expanding a statewide disaster declaration. I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio.
This is NPR News. The southern Philippines is reeling from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Local authorities say it killed at least 35 people and injured more than 200 others. President Trump may be greeted by boos from Knicks fans tonight when he becomes a first sitting president to attend an NBA finals game. From Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch's message to fans, politics may have nothing to do with it. Because of that visit and in coordination with the United States Secret Service, there will unfortunately be no watch party outside of Madison Square Garden for game three of the finals. But watch parties will be held at other locations, including nearby Bryant Park.
How is the U.S. involved in the ongoing tensions in the Middle East?
One of the most beloved World Cup collector's items isn't a trading card or a jersey. It's stickers produced by the Italian company Panini. Collecting them is a decades-old tradition in Europe and Latin America, and it's catching on in the U.S. Here's NPR's Juliana Kim.
Over the past few weeks, many soccer fans have been focused on completing a World Cup-themed sticker album that requires nearly a thousand pieces, which are sold in blind packs of seven. Interest in the sticker chase in the U.S.
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