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Lakshmi Singh
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A bipartisan majority in the Republican led House has voted to end the war with Iran. NPR's Claudia Grizales reports. This was the clearest rebuke yet of President Trump's handling of the conflict.
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Gregory Meeks
New York Democrat Gregory Meeks helped force the vote to end the Iran war that's now 90 days in. He thanked Republicans who joined Democrats to get the War Powers Resolution over the finish line.
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Unknown Commentator
We're at the point where you have to put people, the American people over politics.
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Gregory Meeks
One of those Republicans, Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick, argued once a conflict passed the 60 day mark, it violated the War Powers Act.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
I follow the law. People have a hard time being consistent around here. They apply different rules to different presidents, different wars, different eras. The law is the law.
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Gregory Meeks
For now, the vote remains symbolic. Even if it were to pass in the Senate, too, Trump would be able to veto it. Claudia Reesales, NPR News, the Capitol.
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Lakshmi Singh
John Bolton, once the national security adviser in President Trump's first term before becoming an outspoken critic, has reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents. This according to a person familiar with the matter. A major gun control group is suing the federal government over its refusal to hand over records. The group wants information that shows who are the largest sellers of guns using crime in the U.S. more from NPR's Jacqueline Diaz.
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Jacqueline Diaz
The gun control group Brady is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department. Brady is demanding the federal government release information tied to something called demand letter twos. These are letters ATF sends to gun dealers and other sellers who have been identified as selling a lot of guns recovered at crime scenes. Josh Scharf is Brady's general counsel and senior director of programs. He says this information is important to monitor how the federal government keeps tabs on gun dealers.
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Rebecca Hirsch
It's information that we need to improve public safety in this country.
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Jacqueline Diaz
The DOJ and ATF did not respond to the lawsuit yet. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
With a soccer World cup set to start next Thursday, an NPR analysis finds more than one in three World cup matches face dangerous heat risk. NPR's Rebecca Hirsch reports that includes the World cup final.
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Rebecca Hirsch
NPR found 39 of the 104 World cup matches this summer are very likely to see dangerously hot, humid weather. Donal Mullen studies heatrisk at Queen's University Belfast.
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Donal Mullen
Obviously, if you schedule these matches in the mid afternoon at some of these hottest locations, then that's your recipe for disasters.
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Rebecca Hirsch
For example, the World cup final is scheduled for 3pm on July 19th in New Jersey. That game is at high risk for dangerous heat and humidity. FIFA says extra water breaks will help protect players, but did not respond to questions about exactly how fans will be protected. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
This is npr. President Trump says he plans to nominate his former personal lawyer to permanently take charge of the Justice Department. Todd Blanche has been the acting attorney general since his boss Pam Bondi, was ousted in April. Copper prices are near an all time high, in part because of the artificial intelligence data center boom. That means copper wire theft has been on the rise as well. More from NPR's John Ruich.
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John Ruich
The phone company @&t says it counted more than 10,400 incidents of copper wire theft last year, some 4,000 of which were in California. In Northern California this year, the company says the numbers are up sharply. AT&T West President Susan Santana says the company has been bolting down manholes, putting alarms in spans of wire, hiring security guards, and is even offering money for information that leads to arrests. The company runs a legacy copper wire network that she says serves only about 3% of its customers. AT&T is hoping to shift customers to other options, although it says state law is holding it back. AT&T recently filed suit against California to be able to wind down its century old copper wire network and take away a big target of would be copper thieves. John Ruich, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
People in the market for a home are finding fixed mortgage rates below 6.5% for 30 year loans and 5.8% on 15 year fixed rate mortgages. While the latest numbers from the finance giant Freddie Mac shows rates of ease, Rates have been trend trending mostly higher since the war with Iran began in late February alongside inflation fears stemming from oil shipping disruptions and price surges on the home front. This is NPR News.
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Unknown Commentator
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