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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Israel and Iran backed away from further strikes today after they traded fire for the first time since the US Agreed to a ceasefire with Iran two months ago. The renewed hostilities raised concerns that the Middle east could plunge back into a full scale war. During a telerally supporting Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tonight, Trump predicted the war would end soon.
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I think we are winning that battle, but you're really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory. It'll happen very soon. And oil prices will come tumbling down.
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Industry experts say even if the war ends, it could take a while for gas prices to return to what is considered normal. A federal judge has ruled that President Trump's $100,000 fee for highly skilled worker visas is unlawful. Twenty states sued over the policy, saying it would impede their ability to hire teachers and medical workers. The judge ruled the change intruded on Congress's powers and that the administration had no authority to impose the fee. The Trump administration is ordering the Census Bureau to come up with new plans for protecting people's privacy when it produces statistics based on people's personal information. As NPR's Hansi Loang reports, the new policy could limit the data released from the census and other federal government surveys.
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Federal law requires the Census Bureau to keep people anonymous in its statistics for decades. One of the main ways the bureau has done that is by adding what's known as statistical noise to make certain data fuzzy stat, especially data about small geographic areas and minority populations who could be easy to identify. But the Trump administration is now banning this approach to data privacy protection. Spokespeople for the Commerce Department, which oversees the bureau, did not immediately respond to NPR's questions about why the ban was issued. For the 2020 census, no statistical noise was added to the state level population numbers used to redistribute congressional seats and Electoral College votes. But last year, the bureau said it was planning to keep using this privacy protection for neighborhood level results from the 2030 census. Ansi Le Wang, NPR News.
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The U.S. men's National Soccer team is set to face Paraguay in its opening game at the World cup on Friday. As NPR's Rafael Naam reports, there are still plenty of tickets left for the game.
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The opening game for the World cup is traditionally one of the hardest tickets to get in the tournament, but this time FIFA still has over 100 tickets left for the US first game this week, and there are thousands more in resale platforms such as StubHub or FIFA's own marketplace, many at below face value. A big reason for that, the prices. The most expensive tickets for that game cost over $2,700, while the cheapest are over 1,000. Canada, one of the three co hosts of the tournament, also had unsold tickets for its opening game against Bosnia Herzegovina this week. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
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Wall street held steadier today and recovered some of its sell off from last week, but oil prices rose following fighting between Israel and Iran. The S&P 500 added a quarter of a percent, coming off more than a 2.5% drop. This is NPR News. Iran's World cup team arrived in Mexico wearing pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school. The pins included the number 168, referring to the people killed, most of them children, when a likely U.S. strike hit the school in southern Iran. The head of the World Health Organization is calling on Uganda to reconsider its decision to close its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as both countries deal with an Ebola outbreak. Michael Kaloki has more.
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Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, said Uganda, which temporarily shut its border with Congo last month, should rethink the move. Ugandan authorities had previously said the action was taken to limit the spread of Ebola. However, the WHO chief warned that blanket travel restrictions are not effective. Uganda's President Yowere Museveni, called for regional cross border collaboration in tackling the disease. The White House had said last month that the US Was setting up a facility in Kenya to quarantine Americans exposed to Ebola, which a Kenyan court later temporarily suspended. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
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Researchers at 23andMe say they have identified the lost remains of Maryland's second colonial governor, Thomas Greene, who died in 1651. According to Maryland Matters, the discovery came after dozens of bodies were discovered in a graveyard in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Researchers compared DNA with those bodies with those of more than 11.5 million people in 23andMe's genetic database. It's the first time ancient DNA has been used in this way to identify people in a situation where researchers had no idea who they might be. This is NPR News.
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