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Trump cancels strikes on Iran and suggests a deal could be signed this weekend; A year after Minnesota assassinations, online hate still swirls; California safety net providers seek relief in state budget; and American fish first? UNH leads effort to boost domestic supply.

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The Public News Service, Daily Newscast, June the 12th, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Just hours after President Donald Trump threatened to hit Iran very hard, he reversed course later Thursday and said that he's called off new military strikes on Iran.

Speaking from the awful office, Trump said an agreement to end the hostilities would be signed maybe this weekend, after which the U.S. would immediately lift its naval blockade of the country.

The Washington Post notes the deal would bar Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Trump said that was key in his deciding to strike the country in the first place.

It was not immediately clear if Iran's leaders had formally signed off on the agreement, though Trump asserted that they had.

Meantime, this Sunday marks one year since political violence shook the core of many Minnesotans with the fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman and an attack on another lawmaker.

A national organization warns online hate is only getting worse.

The murder of Hortman and her husband, along with the shooting of fellow state lawmaker John Hoffman and his wife, heightened calls for an end to hateful rhetoric linked to political attacks and threats against elected officials.

Imran Ahmed of the Center for Countering Digital Hate says their new report out this week shows that since MEDA relaxed Facebook's rules on harassment and violent language in early 2025, there's been a noticeable difference.

We found that violent threats targeting bipartisan Congress members increased four times in the six months after Meta made their policy changes, and abusive comments overall, including harassment, tripled.

In defending its recent policy changes, Meta officials argue there's a need to protect free speech.

I'm Mike Moen.

Ahmed says until big tech firms look themselves in the mirror, the courts are the best avenue to hold social media platforms accountable.

This year, plaintiffs secured civil penalty victories in a pair of cases.

And nonprofit safety net providers in California are hoping for a lifeline in the next state budget, which is being finalized right now.

The state stands to lose billions of dollars when federal cuts to Medi-Cal and SNAP take effect.

So Governor Gavin Newsom's May budget proposal pulls back on many programs.

For example, his budget would slash $68 billion from CalAIM, which funds a range of programs to improve health outcomes.

That could hurt the nonprofit Code Tenderloin, which helps people in San Francisco as they leave treatment and learn new skills to become self-sufficient.

Executive Director Maria Giudice says her program prevents a lot of suffering.

If we don't create systems for those vulnerable populations to transition into stable well-being for themselves, then we're going to have a wider group of folks who are unhoused, folks that are having drug challenges.

Families are struggling with rising costs in many areas, including housing, gas, health care and child care.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

This is Public News Service.

The University of New Hampshire has been selected to help lead a growing movement in responsibly harvested local seafood production.

American demand for seafood is surging, but most popular items like shrimp and salmon are imported, and more consumers are growing concerned with the health and origin of their food.

David Fredrickson, director of UNH's Center for Sustainable Seafood Systems, says new federal funding will help develop regional hubs for finfish aquaculture with a focus on native species.

I think the American people are going to be more inclined to accept their neighbors doing this type of thing than a big corporation doing this type of thing.

UNH will collaborate with universities in Hawaii, Florida, and elsewhere to help close America's more than $20 billion seafood trade deficit by boosting the domestic supply.

In the Northeast, he says, that means a greater focus on stealthy steelhead trout.

I'm Catherine Carley.

And the federal government has sent billions of dollars to Texas as part of its mass deportation efforts.

Now the U.S. House has passed the reconciliation package that funds ice enforcement and Border Patrol through 2029.

And more federal money will be flooding into the region.

Texas has the most colonious or low-income unincorporated settlements of the four border states.

Sandra Fuentes with the Border Organization says residents in those communities are not benefiting from the influx of money.

They lack in funding for education, but millions are being spent federal money on the river, on the buoys, on the razor wire, on the boxcars, on National Guard being there.

Yet the community is lacking in so many other areas.

Colonials don't have paved roads, safe drinking water, or access to essential services.

I'm Freda Ross reporting.

Finally, the North Carolina Jemble Assembly is considering a bill that supporters argue would better regulate hyperscale data centers across the state.

However, reporters believe the measure would leave the facilities free to pollute and extract resources.

Senate Bill 730 puts some guardrails on noise pollution and electricity usage costs that could be passed on to consumers.

However, the bill also requires power plants to remain open until their energy outputs can be matched by nuclear power, leaving out solar and wind energy generation and hindering North Carolina's goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

Sophie Loeb, with the Center for Progressive Reform, says the bill acts as if data centers are a sure thing, even though they're widely unpopular.

The bill kind of seeks to force communities to accept the inevitability narrative around data centers, which is that these data centers have to be here in your community.

So you must accept the terms and conditions that are led by the utility, that are led by the tech companies.

I'm Zamone Perez.

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