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Ryland Barton
In Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump says the Iran ceasefire is on life support after he rejected Tehran's latest proposal to end the war. Officials said the proposal included some concessions on Iran's disputed nuclear program, but Trump dismissed it as garbage.
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President Trump
And frankly, the leaders have been killed at the first level, second level and half at the third level. And then they come back and they want to negotiate and they give us a stupid it's a stupid proposal and nobody would take it. Although Obama would have taken it, Biden would have taken it. What they took was far worse.
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Ryland Barton
Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz and America's blockade of Iranian ports are still in place. Trump said he would suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder higher fuel prices caused by the war. Some businesses that have applied for tariff refunds are expected to begin receiving their money this week. This is almost three months after the Supreme Court found most of President Trump's tariffs from Last year illegal. NPR's Alina Selyuk reports.
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Alina Selyuk
The U.S. government took about two months to set up an online system where companies that paid the illegal tariffs could request their money back. That's an estimated $166 billion, though not all of it is being processed in this first wave. U.S. customs has also acknowledged that it did reject more than a third of refund claims for technical and data errors, though importers can refile. As of about two weeks ago, the agency said it had accepted claims covering about a fifth of all the shipments that are due refunds. Nike is the latest big company to face a class action lawsuit that argues shoppers should get a cut of any refunds because they paid the costs through higher prices. Nike declined commentary. Alina Seluk, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
A nonprofit organization is suing the federal government over its decision to resurface and paint the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool blue before July 4th. As NPR's Anastasia Tsiolkis reports, the advocacy group is asking a federal judge to halt the project.
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Anastasia Tsiolkis
The Cultural Landscape foundation filed its lawsuit in the U.S. district Court in Washington, D.C. it's suing the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, saying there was no federal review of the plan, which is mandated by the National Historic Preservation Act. Last month, President Trump said the project would cost no more than $2 million. But the New York Times has reported that the project's final cost could be upwards of $13 million in a no bid contract. The Interior Department would not confirm the cost to npr, but said it was necessary to get the project done by the 4th of July. Anastasia Tsilkas, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
A new poll finds that younger Americans are more pessimistic than older about the state of the job market. The Gallup poll results a reversal from just three years ago when older Americans were more pessimistic. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The EU has unanimously agreed to impose new sanctions on the leaders of the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the Israeli settler movement. It's a decision sparked by growing outrage over the devastation in Gaza during the Israel Hamas war. It comes after Hungary's new government dropped opposition to the move. The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents dinner last month has pleaded not guilty in court. Meanwhile, NPR's Odette Youssef says a survey shows many are skeptical that this and two other assassination attempts were all real.
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Odette Youssef
The NewsGuard YouGov poll surveyed 1,000Americans. It asked about the incident at the dinner, as well as incidents at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and on golf grounds in West Palm Beach, Florida. 30% of respondents thought at least one of those was staged. Sophia Rubinson is with News Guard. She says that previously uptake of conspiracy theories has been a feature of the political right in the US but this
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Sophia Rubinson
is really one area where the political left seems to be very susceptible for, you know, believing this types of baseless narratives.
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Odette Youssef
Across all three events, Democrats were most skeptical of the Butler incident, with 42% saying they thought it was staged. Odette Youssef, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
The eyes of the movie world are turning to the Cannes Film Festival. The Cote d' Azur spectacular starts tomorrow, playing host to some of the most anticipated movies of the year in a parade of glamorous red carpets and premieres. Highlights include new films by James Gray and Pedro Almodovar. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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