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Chapter 1: What recent developments occurred at the G7 summit regarding U.S.-Iran relations?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. At the G7 summit in France, senior Trump administration officials have unanimously read to reporters the entire war-ending memorandum of understanding the U.S. says it has with Iran. According to the framework, both sides agree to permanently stop military operations on all fronts and take measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The officials say the U.S.
agrees to lift its sanctions once a final deal is in place and both sides figure out what to do about Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium. They've got at least 60 days to negotiate a final agreement. Monitoring President Trump's remarks at the G7's conclusion, NPR's Greg Myrie says the president also addressed Iran regime change.
Trump said, as I wrote down here in my notes, he said, I didn't do this for regime change, but I think this is regime change. The first group of people were killed.
Chapter 2: How is the Federal Reserve responding to rising inflation?
The second group of people was killed. So we have a third group. So he is he's been throughout as he's been very fuzzy on this point, whether he wants regime change, whether there has been regime change. NPR's Greg Myhre reporting.
Faced with the highest inflation in more than three years, the Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rates steady this afternoon. And PR Scott Horsley reports policymakers hinted their next move could be a rate hike.
President Trump is hoping that the new Fed chairman will oversee lower interest rates, but with a wartime spike in energy prices pushing inflation in the wrong direction. Lower rates will have to wait. Updated forecasts from Fed policymakers show they no longer expect to cut their benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point this year, as they did in March.
Instead, the average committee member is now projecting a quarter point rate increase.
Chapter 3: What changes are being made to civil rights protections in education?
Consumer prices in May were up 4.2 percent from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase since 2023. While gas prices have come down in recent weeks, they're still about a dollar a gallon higher than when the U.S. launched its war with Iran. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
The U.S. Department of Education says it is offloading one of its signature responsibilities to another federal agency. NPR's Corey Turner says protecting students' civil rights will gradually become the job of the Justice Department.
The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, known as OCR, investigates discrimination in schools. On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced a partnership to move that work to the Department of Justice.
Chapter 4: What was the outcome of the Gilgo Beach serial killer's sentencing?
OCR has been a prime target of efforts to dismantle the Education Department's Hundreds of attorneys there have been fired, then many were unfired but paid not to do their work, before finally returning to work as families' civil rights complaints mounted. Ken Marcus, who ran OCR during Trump's first term, said, quote, if done right, this change could mark a critical step forward for students.
But Katherine Lehman, who ran OCR under Presidents Obama and Biden, called the move a terrible idea. Corey Turner, NPR News.
This is NPR. The man who admits to being the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Today, Rex Uriman appeared in court. He said little as family members of his victims were in court and given a chance to address him directly. Uriman was arrested in 2023.
Chapter 5: What are the details surrounding the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship?
He pleaded guilty in April of strangling. eight sex workers to death and dumping their remains across Long Island. As a judge handed down the sentence, he told Herriman he was disgusting and a coward. The defendant's ex-wife and two grown children were not in attendance. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
today refused to allow one of the passengers from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak to finish her quarantine at home. NPR's Rob Stein has details.
Angela Perryman is the only passenger still being held against their will at a federally funded quarantine unit in Nebraska. Every other passenger who wanted to leave has been allowed to finish their 42-day quarantine at home.
But Perryman is being confined under a mandatory federal quarantine order because the state of Florida is refusing a federal demand that a guard be posted outside her home 24-7.
Chapter 6: What mysteries are highlighted in the closing segment of this episode?
Florida and many independent public health experts say a guard is unnecessary, and an internal CDC review agreed. But Kennedy says he disagrees, so Perryman will continue being held. Rob Stein, NPR News.
I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News, in Washington.
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