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What trade agreement did President Trump announce with Japan and why does he call it historic?
Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingley. President Trump says the US has reached a trade agreement with Japan, a trade deal he calls maybe the largest in history.
We worked on it long and hard and it's a great deal for everybody. I always say it has to be great for everybody. It's a great deal.
As the president speaking last night at an event with Republican members of Congress, the agreement places fifteen percent reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports of Japanese goods to include vehicles and auto parts.
Why are schools and advocacy groups suing over the $6.8 billion education funding freeze?
The president says Tokyo has also agreed to invest five hundred fifty billion dollars in the US. On Truth Social, the president says he believes the deal will also help create thousands of hundreds of thousands of jobs. It gives Japanese automakers an advantage over other vehicle exporters to the US who've been paying tariffs of twenty five percent. Harvard University isn't the only school suing the Trump administration over a freeze on federal funding. A coalition of schools and advocacy groups is suing over a freeze on six point eight billion dollars in education funds. As Eric Stone with Alaska Public Media reports, one of the plaintiffs is a small school district that serves children in some of the state's remote native villages.
The White House Office of Management and Budget accuses schools of using the now frozen funds in prior years to support what it calls a radical left wing agenda. The Cusbuck School District has schools in seven villages in Western Alaska and Superintendent Madeline Aguillard says that couldn't be further from the truth.
How is France’s foreign minister urging Israel to let international media report from Gaza?
She said the funds keep teachers in classrooms and keep Alaska native students in touch with their culture.
Our students deserve the opportunity to have a summer camp. Um, just like any other student in the country does. And without this funding, they won't.
The frozen funding supports migrant education, teacher training, academic enrichment, and more. The lawsuit says the funding freeze violates federal law and the constitutional separation of powers. For NPR News, I'm Eric Stone in Juno.
The foreign minister of France is calling on Israel to allow international media access to Gaza.
What were the highlights of Ozzie Osbourne’s career and his battle with Parkinson’s disease?
NPR's Elner Beardsley has more from Paris.
Agence France Press has issued a statement saying since its founding in 1944, it has lost journalists in conflicts. Some have been wounded and others held prisoner, but none has ever died of hunger. We refuse to let them die, said the statement. The head of AFP spoke on French television. Fabrice Fries said they had been working with their Gazan staff for years and knew them well.
They do excellent work
and they are courageous, but they are cracking, he said.
Their families and friends have been killed.
Which U.S. regions are under heat advisories and what temperatures are expected?
And like everyone in Gaza, he said, they are beginning to waste away from hunger. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris.
This is NPR News from Washington. Heavy metal rocker Ozzie Osborne has died at the age of 76. As Steve Futterman reports, Osbourne had been battling a rare and aggressive form of Parkinson's disease.
Ozzie Osborne first leaped to fame in the early 1970s as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, one of Heavy Metal's pioneering groups. Its songs like Paranoid often focused on dark topics. And Osborne became known as the Prince of Darkness.
How are Dow futures reacting this morning and what does it signal for the market?
After Black Sabbath came a solo career and perhaps his most iconic song, Crazy Train. Osborne's colorful life included tattoos and repeated abuse of drugs and alcohol. It helped lead him to become a reality star in 2002 with the debut of the Osborne on MTV. For MPR News, I'm Steve Federman in Los Angeles.
Ozzie Osborne appeared with Black Sabbath for one final concert less than three weeks ago in Birmingham, England. It's going to be hot today in much of the central US. Heat advisories or extreme heat warnings are in effect in more than a dozen states, from eastern Texas to the Florida panhandle, northward to southern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Areas of upstate New York and New England are also under heat advisories. Afternoon temperatures at or near one hundred degrees are likely in parts of the deep south.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What trade agreement did President Trump announce with Japan and why does he call it historic?
0:01–0:33
2
Why are schools and advocacy groups suing over the $6.8 billion education funding freeze?
0:33–1:32
3
How is France’s foreign minister urging Israel to let international media report from Gaza?
1:32–2:06
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What were the highlights of Ozzie Osbourne’s career and his battle with Parkinson’s disease?
2:06–2:46
5
Which U.S. regions are under heat advisories and what temperatures are expected?
2:46–3:33
6
How are Dow futures reacting this morning and what does it signal for the market?
3:33–4:39