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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump arrived in the French Alps today for the G7 Leaders Summit where he's touting a peace deal with Iran. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports there are a lot of issues on the table, but the peace agreement's likely to dominate the talks. President Trump met first with French President Emmanuel Macron and used the opportunity to tout the agreement that is intended to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. I'm very happy to say very, very science. the deal's outside, and the strain is already partially open. The president says the deal will ensure Iran never has a nuclear weapon and claims it will trigger an economic boon.

The leaders are also expected to discuss trade, supply chain resilience and artificial intelligence. Trump has not been as focused on the war in Ukraine, but says now that the Iran deal is finished, he will turn his focus to Ukraine. Franco, Ordonez, and Pierre News, Evian, France. Meanwhile, Ukraine officially opened negotiations for European Union membership today. The process requires the country to commit to political reforms while still fighting a Russian invasion. Ukraine views EU membership as a security guarantee for its future. Moldova was also set to officially begin its membership negotiations, too. The process could take both countries several years. Some European nations want to fast track Ukraine's membership. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom says President Trump has ordered the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife.

Newsom says in a video posted online that federal agents in recent days have knocked on the doors of his friends and former employees and have asked for records. Donald Trump isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president because he hates that I've consistently called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit. Newsom did not provide details, and the Trump administration declined to comment. Much of the Pacific Northwest is under a heat advisory today, as Christian Foden Vensel of Oregon Public Broadcasting Reports, Portland is under an extreme heat warning. Temperatures around 95 degrees are expected today.

A level the National Weather Service says affects anyone who doesn't take action to avoid it. Mike Horner was filling the back of his truck with bottled water to hand out to homeless people during the heat. He says there are places around town to cool down, but going there means leaving things behind that often get stolen. Sleeping bags, personal documents. Now all of a sudden you've got a person who doesn't have a house, doesn't have any ID, things that you need to get services, you know.

I mean, it's really a cruel system. Portland's local transit service trimet says it won't turn anyone away who's traveling to or from a cooling center. The intense heat is expected to end Tuesday. For NPR News, I'm Christian Fodenvancel in Portland. Stock markets rallied worldwide today. the NASDAQ composite jumped more than 3%. This is NPR News from Washington.

UFC CEO Dana White called yesterday's fight night at the White House a smashing success. He says the mixed martial arts fighting company surpassed its goals in every metric, but he also said he wouldn't try to host the event again at the White House. Weather concerns in the rare outdoors show staging events at federal landmarks and the soaring cost made Freedom 250 a one-off. One of the world's leading brain research facilities has announced that it is shifting its emphasis from fruit flies to transparent fish. NPR's John Hamilton reports that the goal is to understand how the brain controls an animal's behavior. A fruit fly's brain is covered by a shell, making it hard to study.

So the Janelia Research campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is making a big bet on Daniela, a tiny transparent fish whose brain is clearly visible. Jerry Rubin, a senior group leader at Janelia, says the chain, will open up new research possibilities. If you really want to understand how the brain is working as a whole, you really need to see all the neurons firing at once. That won't be easy, though. Daniela have three times as many neurons as a fruit fly,

so Janelia is counting on artificial intelligence to help its researchers make sense of what they're seeing. John Hamilton, NPR News. A rare first edition copy of Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights is up for auction, complete with spelling mistakes. Only about 250 copies of the first edition were printed, and this one has been in a private library since shortly after its publication in 1847.

The book, along with a copy of her sister, and Bronte's Agnes Gray, is expected to sell for $800,000. It's NPR.