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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. E. Jean Carol, the columnist who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting and defaming her, has received a $5.6 million payment from her civil case against Trump. She waited three years after jury found Trump was liable for damages. The money was held in escrow while the president appealed the award. President Trump's hosting Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al Zeidi today during a joint news conference, Trump defended a decision to reinstate the U.S. blockade on the Strai of Hormuz as its war with Iran escalates. He also says there won't be a 20% toll on ships going through the critical passageway, but wants to strike investment deals with other countries in the region.
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And they said we'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars and continue our record setting, because we would. There's never been a time like this for the United States with the factories, with the plants, with everything else. And we would like to invest tremendously in the United States as opposed to charging a fee. And I like that actually, because I don't think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the for the strait or for any other strait.
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The US And Iran have been trading fire for several days. The president's deployment of the national guard to Washington, D.C. has been extended until Inauguration Day 2029, the Pentagon confirmed to NPR. Thousands of armed and uniformed troops have been patrolling the city for nearly a year. The latest from NPR's Kat Lonsdorf.
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President Trump first deployed National Guard to D.C. last August after declaring a crime emergency in the city despite violent crime being at a 30 year low. That emergency declaration lifted a month later, but the Guard and the federal law enforcement task force that they're a part of remained. Since then, the number of troops has steadily increased to now nearly 5,000 from more than 20 different states in a cost of around $3 million per day. Two different studies have found that the presence of the National Guard has had no effect on violent crime in the city. The White House did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment. The extension of the deployment for another two and a half years was deemed necessary. Kat Lansdorf, NPR News, Washington.
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U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement will pause non urgent vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in less than a week. That according to Maine Senator Angus King, who spoke with NPR or whose office spoke with npr. A spokesman for King says the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the policy shift. Maine Senator Susan Collins also posted on X today that she had called for change. Most recent death happened Monday in Biddeford, Maine, where ICE agents tried to pull over the car of a 26 year old Colombian man. Members of a congressional committee questioned Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh today. He told lawmakers a central bank will make high inflation a thing of the past, but he did not immediately specify how. It's NPR. A drop in oil prices in June led to a sharp drop in inflation after May's more than three year record high. NPR's Stephen Basarha with more Consumer prices
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in June were up 3.5% from a year earlier, higher than the Federal Reserve wants but lower than May's high. Prices in June were down 0.4% from a month earlier. The decrease primarily comes down to the main driving force behind inflation in recent months, energy prices. They fell 5.7% in June from a month earlier. Gas prices at the end of June were about $0.71 lower than they were during the May peak and they've remained steady since. But renewed conflict between the US And Iran could send those prices back up, strip away food and energy prices. And so called core inflation for the 12 months ending in June was 2.6%. Stephen Bassarha, NPR News.
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The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads has fallen for the third straight year, but NPR's Joel Rose reports fatalities are still well above pre pandemic levels.
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Drivers struck and killed just over 6,700 people last year, a drop of 7% from the year before, according to a report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association. California alone accounted for more than half of the drop. 2025 marked the third straight year that the number of pedestrian fatalities has declined since peaking in 2022, but last year's number is still 10% higher than the total from 2016. The report also looked at why and when pedestrians are killed and found some familiar patterns. SUVs, pickup trucks and vans account for more than half of pedestrian deaths. And and more than three quarters of fatalities happen after dark. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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