NPR News: 06-28-2026 12PM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
What is the bipartisan housing bill controversy with President Trump's refusal to sign?
Congress passed a bipartisan bill last week designed to make housing more affordable, but President Trump refused to sign it into law until Congress approves the Save America Act, legislation to impose voting restrictions that does not have bipartisan support. House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News today he thinks the president will change his mind.
I'm going to send the bill over to him. It's passed by both chambers. I'm sending it to him on Monday, and it will become law. And I certainly want him to take the biggest, boldest marker that he has and do that big Trump signature proudly on that legislation because we're delivering for the people, and that's what he wants to do.
But if the president still doesn't sign it, it would become law in 10 days without his signature. as long as Congress is in session. Several large wildfires are burning across the western United States. Three firefighters were killed in Colorado yesterday. Colorado Public Radio's Steena Sig reports two other firefighters were injured in a blaze that's grown to more than 40 square miles.
The U.S. Wildland Fire Service has released few details on the deaths and says it's focused on supporting the loved ones of the firefighters. They died in a rugged rural area along the Colorado-Utah border, where many smaller fires have merged into one. Governor Jared Polis has declared a state of emergency. Farther south, another Colorado wildfire forced evacuations and closed a vital highway Saturday. Much of the state is facing elevated fire risk and is in the major drought, following its lowest mountain snowpack level on record. For NPR News, I'm Steena Sieg in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Iran carried out a series of drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait overnight. responding to a new round of U.S. airstrikes on Tehran. Speaking through a BBC interpreter, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghji called on all parties to abide by the memo of understanding signed with the U.S.
Any attempt to adopt new or separate arrangements from those currently being implemented by the Islamic Republic of Iran will only complicate the situation, delay the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and raise the level of tension, as we witnessed over the past two nights with incidents in the Strait of Hormuz that led to increased tensions and clashes. Iran says any challenge to its control of the Strait of Hormuz will jeopardize the reopening.
What did House Speaker Mike Johnson say about sending the housing bill to the president?
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today Ukrainian drones... struck Russia's oil and military infrastructure again in an effort to reduce Russia's ability to continue its war against Ukraine now in its fifth year. This is NPR News. The surge continues in Venezuela for more than 68,000 people reported missing after twin earthquakes last week. More than 1,400 people are confirmed dead. More teams from overseas have joined rescue efforts. Comedian Mel Brooks is celebrating a major milestone today. NPR's Bob Mondello has details.
He's turned 100, which still makes him a spring chicken mix of the character he and Carl Reiner made famous.
2,000 years old. Is that true, sir? Yes. You want to see my driver's license?
The 2,000-year-old man had seen it all, and so had Brooks in his movies. In History of the World Part I, he was Moses.
Let's give it unto you, these 15...
Ten! Ten commandments! He played the lead in his spoof of Vertigo and even sang the title song. High anxiety. And after creating Get Smart for TV, writing and directing 11 feature films, and turning two of them into Broadway musicals, the 100-year-old Mel Brooks has another movie on the way. Spaceballs, the new one. It's just like the old one, but it's newer. Look for that in 2027.
What happened in Colorado’s deadly wildfires and how many firefighters were killed?
Bob Mandello, NPR News.
NASA is planning a mission to keep an aging telescope from crashing to Earth. The Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been sinking faster and faster because of intense solar activity. NASA will send a space robot to boost it into a higher, more stable orbit. The robot's about the size of a small refrigerator and has three arms with finger-like pinching grippers.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What is the bipartisan housing bill controversy with President Trump's refusal to sign?
0:04–2:42
3
What did House Speaker Mike Johnson say about sending the housing bill to the president?
2:42–4:08
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What happened in Colorado’s deadly wildfires and how many firefighters were killed?
4:08–4:57