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Jun 4, 2026
NPR News: 06-03-2026 8PM EDT
NPR News: 06-03-2026 8PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew a ceasefire.
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The plan creates a number of what a joint statement calls pilot security zones inside Lebanon, where Hezbollah militants would be banned.
0:14
It's not clear how the zones would be created, but the agreement calls for the Lebanese army to take full control of those areas.
0:21
This week, Iranian state news agencies said Iran had stopped communicating with mediators brokering a ceasefire with the US because of Israel's incursion into Lebanon.
0:31
A bipartisan majority in the Republican-led House has voted to end the war with Iran.
0:35
NPR's Claudia Grisales reports this was the clearest rebuke yet of President Trump's handling of the conflict and the subsequent fallout.
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New York Democrat Gregory Meeks helped force the vote to end the Iran war that's now ninety days in. He thanked the five Republicans who joined Democrats to get the War Powers Resolution over the finish line.
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We're at the point where you have to put people, the American people, over politics.
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One of those Republicans, Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick, argued once the conflict passed the sixty-day mark, it violated the War Powers Act. I follow the law. Um, people have a hard time being consistent around here.
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They apply different rules to different presidents, different wars, different eras. The law is the law. For now, the vote remains symbolic. Even if it were to pass in the Senate too, Trump would be able to veto it.
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Claudia Grisales, NPR News, The Capitol. The Senate is debating legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after weeks of delay.
1:32
It comes after Republican leaders stripped one billion dollars in funding for White House security and President Trump's ballroom that had been included in an earlier draft.
1:40
But there are still concerns over a proposed anti-weaponization fund for Trump's allies, which acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said yesterday was not moving forward, but Trump suggested today could be resurrected.
1:52
Democrats and some Republicans have said they won't support the measures. Copper prices are near an all-time high, in part because of the AI data center boom.
2:01
That means copper wire theft has been on the rise, too, as NPR's John Ruwitch reports.
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The phone company AT&T says it counted more than ten thousand four hundred incidents of copper wire theft last year, some four thousand of which were in California.
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In Northern California this year, the company says the numbers are up sharply.
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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.
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The company runs a legacy copper wire network that she says serves only about three percent of its customers. AT&T is hoping to shift customers to other options, although it says state law is holding it back.
2:42
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 Ruwitch, NPR News.
2:52
Oil prices rose following the latest threats to the US-Iran ceasefire. This is NPR News from Washington. This message comes from BetterHelp. Summer can feel like a sprint.
3:04
It's easy to slip into survival mode, just trying to get through it. Therapy can help you slow down and actually be present for the moments that matter. Visit betterhelp.com/npr
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