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Right now’s high tales
President Trump left the G7 summit in the future early to give attention to the quickly escalating battle between Israel and Iran. The White Home abruptly introduced Trump’s exit from the summit after the president posted a dire warning on social media telling Iranians to evacuate the capital, Tehran.
President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and different G7 leaders depart after a household picture for the summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada on June 16, 2025.
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- 🎧 There’s an environment of panic and confusion in Tehran, NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi, who’s in Tel Aviv, tells Up First. There may be bumper-to-bumper visitors on roads main out of the town, and individuals are stocking up on meals. Israel’s U.N. ambassador stated final week that the preemptive strikes had been meant to stop Iran from making a nuclear weapon. Israel has since expanded its assaults. An Iranian state TV station was hit throughout a dwell broadcast yesterday. To this point, the U.S. has solely helped defend Israel and intercept missiles. Trump has stated he does not need Iran to have a nuclear weapon, and his desire is to strike a deal. Because the battle intensifies, Al-Shalchi says all eyes can be on whether or not the president adjustments course and decides to get instantly concerned.
Vance Boelter, the person suspected of killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her partner and wounding one other lawmaker and his spouse, faces federal and state homicide costs. Police apprehended the 57-year-old late Sunday in rural Minnesota. Appearing U.S. Lawyer Joe Thompson for the district of Minnesota stated Boelter’s alleged crimes had been “the stuff of nightmares.”
- 🎧 Police recovered six weapons from the scene — most in a automobile the suspect deserted. They are saying he would have continued his rampage if he had not been pressured to flee, NPR’s Meg Anderson says. Boelter faces six federal costs, together with two counts of homicide for the killings of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband. These costs carry the loss of life penalty if convicted. He faces 4 costs on the state stage. Officers initially pursued two counts of second-degree homicide and two counts of tried second-degree homicide, however they are saying they plan to pursue first-degree homicide costs.
- 🎧 On Morning Version, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., referred to as for fellow lawmakers and most people to tone down incendiary rhetoric whereas hailing Hortman as “one of the crucial consequential audio system in Minnesota historical past.”
- 🎧 The suspect’s spiritual background and views on abortion rights have gained consideration. NPR’s home extremism correspondent Odette Yousef discusses what we all know up to now.
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler household, who personal the corporate, have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and U.S. territories over the corporate’s improper advertising of opioids. If the settlement is accredited, it might finish a protracted authorized battle over the hurt attributable to OxyContin, the corporate’s opioid painkiller. Authorized paperwork revealed that underneath the Sackler household’s management, Purdue Pharma satisfied regulators and the well being care business that OxyContin might be used extra liberally and not using a massive danger of habit or overdose, which turned out to not be true. Purdue Pharma has since pleaded responsible twice to federal crimes for false advertising. Hundreds of thousands of individuals within the U.S. have died from opioid overdoses, together with from OxyContin.
- 🎧 NPR’s habit correspondent Brian Mann says the brand new deal contains one massive change: individuals who imagine they had been harmed by OxyContin will not be pressured to drop civil lawsuits towards the Sackler household. The final try at a settlement was overturned by the Supreme Court docket as a result of it included broad authorized safety for the Sacklers. Below this new deal, the household is anticipated to pay $6.5 billion from their private fortunes and quit possession of the corporate. Activists inform Mann they hope the cash can be spent on well being care and serving to extra individuals in habit get higher therapy, however there’s concern it might be redirected to prop up present packages.
Right now’s pay attention
Passengers arrive on worldwide flights at Miami Worldwide Airport, Monday, June 9, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photograph/Rebecca Blackwell)
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President Trump’s journey ban went into impact final week, barring people from 12 nations, together with Myanmar, from coming into the U.S. until they’re lawful everlasting residents, they’re present visa holders, fall underneath sure visa classes, or their entry serves U.S. nationwide pursuits. In keeping with the Trump administration, Myanmar was among the many 12 nations banned due to excessive overstay visa charges and non-cooperation with the U.S. authorities. Even with the visa exceptions, some individuals are nervous their plans of coming to the U.S. might be thwarted. Amongst them is a pupil from Myanmar who was lately admitted to an Ivy League college. He speaks with Morning Version’s Steve Inskeep about his fascination with U.S. historical past and its freedoms, and whether or not it is within the curiosity of the U.S. to confess worldwide college students for an schooling. Hearken to their dialog and learn highlights from his interview.
Residing Higher
Analysis on music remedy and most cancers was executed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Most cancers Middle in New York.
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Residing Higher is a particular collection about what it takes to remain wholesome in America.
Hundreds of thousands extra individuals are surviving most cancers because of enhancements within the prognosis and therapy of the illness. The inhabitants of U.S. most cancers survivors has surged to 18.6 million individuals in latest a long time, in accordance with the American Most cancers Society. With this rise comes the necessity for various therapies to enhance most cancers survivors’ high quality of life. That is the place music remedy is available in.
- 🎵 Music remedy may be as efficient as conventional cognitive behavioral remedy at managing the signs and anxieties that include a most cancers prognosis, in accordance with a latest research introduced on the American Society of Medical Oncology.
- 🎵 Dr. Kevin Liou, the research’s creator, says therapeutic collaboration units music remedy other than passive listening or taking part in music on one’s personal. Sufferers course of their feelings by dialog and music creation.
- 🎵 Cynthia Cherish Malaran turned to music remedy when she found she was allergic to a drug that will assist her stay cancer-free. For her, therapeutic got here as a result of music allowed her to specific feelings for which there have been no apt phrases.
Earlier than you go
FILE – A common view of the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in London.
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- The chief of Britain’s MI6 can be a girl for the primary time within the overseas intelligence company’s historical past. The James Bond universe met the milestone earlier than it occurred in actual life when Judi Dench performed the MI6 chief in a number of Bond movies.
- A federal jury discovered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell responsible of defaming a former govt of Dominion Voting Methods and ordered him to pay $2.3 million in damages. (by way of Colorado Public Radio)
- The Los Angeles Press Membership and investigative reporting information web site Standing Coup are suing the town of Los Angeles and the LA police chief. They allege officers at demonstrations are routinely violating journalists’ rights.
This text was edited by Obed Manuel.
