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Gunman kills a tourist and wounds 6 others at Mexico’s Pyramid of the Moon; Trump signals that he does not want to extend the ceasefire with Iran; Eastern Kentucky communities work to build economic and climate resilience; In Illinois, nature loss and inequality go hand in hand; Indiana tobacco violations drop, but risks remain.

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In the Public News Service Tuesday afternoon update, I'm Mike Clifford.

A gunman opened fire Monday from the Pyramid of the Moon, a well-known archaeological site in Mexico.

The gunman killed a female Canadian tourist and wounded six others.

Officials say the shooter later took his own life.

According to the LA Times, the injured included six U.S. citizens, one of them a 61-year-old woman as well as a 6-year-old boy from Colombia.

And President Trump told CNBC in an interview Tuesday that he did not want to extend a ceasefire with Iran, adding the U.S. was in a strong negotiating position and would end up with what he called a great deal.

The ceasefire is scheduled to end on Wednesday, next to eastern Kentucky, where Floyd County officials are spearheading several projects aimed at boosting economic and climate resilience in the region.

Our Nadia Ramlagan reports housing also remains a challenge after years of devastating flooding.

Missy Allen, Special Projects Director for Floyd County Fiscal Court, says many residents have taken up offers from the Army Corps of Engineers to buy up properties and businesses located in flood zones.

She says the county has used Community Development Block Grant disaster recovery funds to help secure safe housing.

We want our people to stay here.

They want to stay here.

We have received a CDBG-DR grant and are actually working on a housing project here near Prestonsburg.

Local leaders are currently mapping out land for future development to bring construction out of the floodplains and onto higher ground.

And a new analysis highlights how nature loss disproportionately impacts communities of color and low-income households in Illinois and across the country.

The research shows there are racial dynamics to nature loss, with communities of color three times more likely to be located in nature-deprived areas than white communities.

Samantha Zeno with the Center for American Progress says those with low income experience some of the most severe environmental inequities.

In Illinois, 70 percent of low-income households live in nature-deprived areas.

These communities are more vulnerable to extreme weather.

They're more vulnerable to climate change.

They experience worse health outcomes.

And the future generations of those communities have a diminished inheritance of health and a greater gap in their innate connection to nature.

She says the analysis comes at a time when the country needs to take a hard look at the human impacts of extractive industries.

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.

And Indiana reports fewer illegal tobacco sales to minors, but state data show the problem is far from solved.

A new annual SINAR report finds violation rates drop to a 12-year low, meaning most underage buyers fail when attempting to buy tobacco.

Aaron Jones is with Prevention Insights at the Indiana University School of Public Health.

We do a random sampling from all tobacco retailers in Indiana for 2025 data, and we had a retailer violation rate of 10.5, which is the lowest we've seen since 2013.

Supporters claim enforcement and training are working, but critics argue any failure rate means kids still have access.

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Colleges in Florida are part of a national movement to reinvent how students get into college, moving away from confusing paperwork and toward a system that welcomes them.

A grant initiative from Lumina Foundation will provide over $3.5 million to help states and institutions simplify that journey from high school to college.

Madeline Pumariega, president of Miami-Dade College, says her school has already cut application times dramatically by rethinking what students actually need to prove.

Our application process was like 45 minutes long, like 30 to 45 minutes long.

So we've created, you know, the questions where a student can finish applying within 7 to 10 minutes.

Pumariega says the old application was essentially a digitized paper form of the same challenging questions.

She says Miami-Dade is working to redesign the process to be more intuitive for students, especially those who are first in their families to attend college.

Support for this reporting was provided by Lumina Foundation.

I'm Tramiel Gomes.

Elected leaders and clean transportation advocates in Washington State are urging the Congress to include robust investments in electrified transportation in the upcoming surface transportation bill.

The law, which is reauthorized about every five years, will update policies and funding for federal highway transit and safety programs before the current law expires in September.

Michael Mann of Clean and Prosperous Washington called on lawmakers to support the state's electrification efforts at a recent press conference.

We need Congress to exercise its power of the purse, to strengthen the power of our democracy, in order to power our transportation system on cleaner and cheaper fuels that don't lock our economic future into whoever has the keys to the state of Ormuz.

Mann said leaders in Washington have put $200 million from the Climate Commitment Act into EV infrastructure.

I'm Isobel Charle.

And the San Joaquin in California was just named the second most endangered river in the country.

That's according to a new report from American Rivers.

The river already runs dry in places due to drought and excessive diversion of water for agriculture.

Now the international cement company, Cemex, wants to expand an existing gravel mine near Fresno, something conservation groups say will spell disaster for the salmon and steelhead trout run.

Sharon Weaver says the huge pit would be a particular threat to nearby Lake Millerton.

It's going to involve blasting and drilling.

The proposal is for a 600-foot deep hole next to the San Joaquin River.

That could have very significant impacts on water quality, water quantities, air quality, and contamination potential.

The San Joaquin runs from the Sierra Nevadas, joins the Sacramento River at the Delta, and then empties into San Francisco Bay.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

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