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President Trump says a peace deal with Iran will be signed today.
Tehran has not confirmed any timeline.
NPR's Jihadid reports the two sides have come this close before.
The Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif posted on X that his country is preparing
for an electronic signing of the peace deal.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman was reported in Iranian media as saying
the deal will include releasing billions of dollars that's been frozen in Gulf banks.
And he says at this stage, the deal will not address Iran's enriched uranium.
While there appears to be momentum for the latest Middle East war to end,
Iran and the US have come close before to negotiating a deal only to have it fall apart.
The Department of Transportation is no longer enforcing a key civil rights
law after a rule change was implemented last week.
As old Dostrom Ekman from member station KQED has more.
The DOT is dropping disparate impact protections.
That's the part of Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 that says federally funded projects can't discriminate against protected classes.
Even if it's unintentional.
Laurel Padgett Seacons of the nonprofit firm Public Advocate says Title VI forced
everything from transit agencies to highway projects to ensure they weren't causing unintentional harm.