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For The New York Times, it’s “The Headlines.” I’m Tracy Mumford. Today’s Friday, June 19. Here’s what we’re covering.

Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance delivered a blunt message to those in Israel who have been criticizing the deal the US struck with Iran.

Vance held a press conference at the White House, as the administration’s been pushing back against a growing wave of criticism over the peace agreement coming from both at home and abroad. Critics say the deal gives Iran economic relief now, while punting negotiations on the nuclear program down the road. One fiery opinion piece by the head of a major Israeli paper called it a catastrophic capitulation. While the war started as a joint US-Israeli operation, Israel was excluded from the peace negotiations, and analysts and officials there say the deal now leaves Israel worse off than before the war.

The Iranian regime is not only still in place, it’s more emboldened. And the agreement doesn’t address Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal, a key concern for Israel. Beyond that, the agreement also tries to introduce a new restraint on the Israeli military by calling for the immediate and permanent termination of operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, where Israel has been fighting the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah Vance acknowledged yesterday that the White House has grown frustrated with some of the Israeli operations there.

Overnight, there was a new wave of deadly attacks in Southern Lebanon that showed the fighting there has not ended. Lebanon’s state news agency said Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people, and the Israeli military said four of its soldiers were killed in a rocket attack by Hezbollah. In terms of what comes next with the peace agreement, the US and Iran were set to start a new round of negotiations today about many of the big outstanding issues between them.

But ahead of those talks, Switzerland, which was set to host, said the negotiations had been postponed. As of this morning, it’s not clear why.

The Times has learned that the Trump administration is planning to sell or offload many of the warehouses it was going to turn into immigration detention centers. In the past year, it had bought up a lot of properties.

Basically going on a bit of a spending spree.

The warehouses were supposed to be key to the administration’s mass deportation campaign, but the facilities quickly turned out to be costly and controversial.

It was expensive to convert the warehouses to be able to safely hold thousands of people, and ICE was battered by lawsuits alleging the agency skirted environmental laws as it rushed to get the centers up and running. Now, according to documents obtained by The Times, ICE is set to offload most of the 11 warehouses it bought, selling them or turning them over to other federal agencies. The cost of those properties was more than $700 million.

The plan reverses course on what had been a signature initiative for the Department of Homeland Security, as it tried to aggressively round up potential deportees. In a statement, DHS said it is, quote, moving swiftly to utilize existing detention space. Now two other quick updates on the administration. First —

Earlier this year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon would no longer require US troops to get vaccinated for the flu. He framed the change as a matter of religious freedom, and said people should have the right to make their own medical decisions. Now, the Air Force is working to contain an outbreak of the flu at an air base in Texas. Nearly 160 service members have fallen ill.

One trainee at the base died after getting sick last week, though it wasn’t immediately clear if his death was related to the flu. In all, since the new policy went into effect, flu vaccination rates in the Air Force have plunged. According to a military official, about 60 percent of trainees have opted not to get vaccinated. But to try and contain the outbreak, the Air Force is now requiring all recruits at the affected base to get flu shots.

Also, the Education Department has announced a new effort to try and get more people to pay back their student loans. Starting in July, it will temporarily lower student loan interest rates by up to a full percent for most borrowers who sign up for automatic payments. The Trump administration created the benefit to try and address the fact that the majority of people with federal student loans are behind on their payments. It comes as the administration is doing a broader overhaul of the whole student loan system. And in less than two weeks, millions of federal borrowers will be notified that they have to choose a new repayment plan.

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Michael Steinberger is a contributing writer to “The New York Times Magazine.” He says that Delaware’s business dominance goes back 100 years to when it started luring companies in by promising more lenient corporate laws than other states. A couple years ago, though, a Delaware court thwarted Tesla’s plan to give Elon Musk, its CEO, a $55 billion compensation package. Musk was infuriated and more or less declared war on Delaware, saying he was moving Tesla as well as SpaceX to Texas and urging other companies to do the same.

And finally —

For a moment there, it seemed like Waymo’s, the self-driving taxis, were spreading everywhere as the cars hit the road in city after city, state after state.

And they have reached a lot of places. The cars are giving people rides in California, Texas, Florida, Tennessee.

And passengers are paying for a half a million rides every week. But in a lot of other places, Waymo’s expansion efforts have now stalled. In part, that’s because there’s a vacuum of Federal rules about AI-powered self-driving technology. So the company has to win over state and local officials one by one, and it’s hitting some roadblocks. New York City, for example, is one of the largest rideshare markets in the world. But Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he’s concerned about what self-driving taxis could mean for cab drivers, and a New York State level proposal faced fierce pushback from drivers, too.

The company hasn’t been able to move forward in Illinois or DC, either. Some of it is safety concerns, and some of it may also reflect how people have grown increasingly wary of AI in general recently, with its potential to disrupt the economy and job market. For now, in New York City, Waymo being in limbo has left a strange scene. The company had been testing autonomous driving there. But its permit to do that expired in March. So its cars are still cruising around the city collecting data, but they’re being driven by humans.

Those are the headlines. If you’d like to play the Friday news quiz, stick around. It’s just after these credits. This show is made by Will Jarvis, Margaret Cardiffa, Jake Lucas, Jon Stewart, and me Trac Mumford. Original theme by Dan Powell. Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Sam Dolnick, Miles McKinley, Alyssa Moxley, Zoe Murphy, and Chris Wood.

Now time for the quiz Every week, we ask you a few questions about stories The Times has been covering. Can you get them all? First up —

Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has now been trading on the stock market for a full week, and it is doing pretty well. The company has gained roughly $1 trillion in market value, and is now one of the six most valuable public companies in the world. We are going to see if you can name the other five that round out that list. They are all big names. So we’ll just give you quick clues here. We’re giving them to you in no particular order.

Let’s start with a fruit. That’s your hint. A fruit. That’s Apple. Next one, ABCs. That’s Alphabet, parent company of Google. How about chips, but not potatoes? Chips, but not potatoes. Looking for NVIDIA there. This one’s a very long river. It’s Amazon. And the last tech giant on the list of most valuable, that’s Microsoft.

Now while some of these companies might be worth more than SpaceX, Elon Musk still has the title of world’s richest man, and it is not even close. He is now likely worth three times more than the runner-up, one of the Google founders. OK, next question —

Across the country, there’s been a number of lawsuits recently about a noise.

People in urban, suburban, and rural areas are encountering a specific hum they say can keep them up at night. Some say they can even feel it rumbling. They’ve broken out the decibel meters, posted clips of it online, and in some cases sued. What is the source of the sound that’s really riling people up?

The answer —

Data centers. Some of the noise is likely the humming of the cooling systems needed to keep the chips from melting, or the rumbling of the generators powering the center. The number of these kinds of projects is skyrocketing in the US right now. And according to one analysis, today nearly 40 percent of American homes are within five miles of at least one data center.

And last question.

With the World Cup underway, thousands and thousands and thousands of people from all over have been traveling to the US to catch some of the games. There are 11 host cities in the US including Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, Miami. And between the matches, many of the soccer fans are taking some time to visit some very American institutions.

We’re going to play a few clips of people posting about their visits to some big box stores and big chains that seem to have become unexpected tourist destinations. Try to guess the business they’re talking about. First up —

For this, think pit stop in the South.

The answer, Buc-ee’s. The Texas-based gas station chain known for its mega-sized convenience stores. Your next one is an outdoor retailer.

That was someone just absolutely blown away by the selection at Bass Pro Shops. And last one —

That was one Scottish tourist trying a wee bit of Waffle House.

Really, the whole internet recently has become a buffet of tourists reviewing almost everything about the country, even one video titled Scottish People Try American Emergency Room.

All I can say is welcome to America.

That is it for this week’s news quiz, I’m Tracy Mumford. The show will be back on Monday with my colleague Will Jarvis.

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