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President Trump continues to try and explain why the U.S. took action against Iran when
it did, and PR's Franco-Ordonia's reports on the various explanations Trump has given for going to war." President Trump again reiterated the long threat posed by the Iranian regime. At a roundtable discussion at the White House, Trump boasted of U.S. military power. He said the U.S. obliterated Iran's nuclear program, but also said Iran was trying to
re-constitute the program, and was close to having a nuclear weapon. And he said the U.S. needed to act before Iran did.
“And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel and give us a shot”
of that was possible. The White House argues the U.S. didn't make the decision in a vacuum, and that its decision to launch this operation was based on what it calls the cumulative effect of various direct threats. Franco-Ordonia's NPR News, the White House.
The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a attack in Kuwait have been released by the Pentagon, and they're from California and Iowa. The soldiers identified were chief foreign officer, three Robert Marsin of Sacramento, and major Jeffrey O'Brien from Indian, Iowa. Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome was back on Capitol Hill today.
This time testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, and appears he menabustillo has more. The midies ranking member, Jim Cratt and Jamie Raskin, was one of several who pressed
“Secretary Nome over her labeling of two citizens killed as "domestic terrorists" after”
their deaths. "What happened in Minnesota in those two incidents was an absolute tragedy. "Were they domestic terrorists, as U said to the country?"
"I can tell answers to their families, because I know that their lives will never be
the same." There was a large split between Republicans and Democrats over weather immigration enforcement tactics have gone too far. Meanwhile lawmakers are still trying to negotiate a deal to fund Nome's department. DHS is in the third week of a shutdown, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal workers
are working without pay or furloughed. He menabustillo and PR News, Washington. The Trump administration plans to move the energy-start efficiency program to the Department of Energy, and appears that Jeff Brady reports the change comes after the administration tried to eliminate the program.
“Energy-stirer words is blue and white logo to the most efficient appliances and buildings.”
The environmental protection agency has operated the program for more than three decades. The Trump administration effort to end or privatize the program failed.
Congress specifically instructed that the EPA spend just over $33 million this year on
Energy-Star. But now the EPA has signed an agreement to transfer responsibility to the Energy Department. The U.S. Green Building Council says EPA has been very successful in creating and managing Energy-Star, and is concerned about the administration abruptly moving the program after Congress showed bipartisan support for it.
Jeff Brady and PR News. The U.S. stock market rebounded today. This is NPR News. Elon Musk took the stand today in a shareholder trial where he's accused of making false and misleading statements that drove down Twitter's stock price before he bought it in 2022.
It claims Musk violated federal securities laws by making false public statements that were carefully calculated to drive down Twitter's shares. The U.S. 390,000 federal workers have left the government since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, according to the latest numbers from the Office of Personal Management and PR's Andrea Xu reports.
Early this year, the Office of Personal Management launched a new data tool on its website. There you can see how many federal workers have come and gone from federal agencies. According to the latest update, since January 20th, 2025, there have been close to 387,000 to purchase of federal employees and 123,000 additions that represents in that loss of about 11 and a half percent of the federal workforce.
The Treasury Department has seen the most separations of anyone agency that VA, along with the departments of defense and Homeland Security, saw the most hires, Andrea Xu and PR News. Crews in East Texas rescued two people stranded hundreds of feet in the air after a hot air balloon hit a communications tower. The balloon was entangled more than 900 feet above the ground.
Officials say it took rescuers about an hour to climb up to the man and woman in the balloons basket and it was another hour before the pair was secured and could begin their dissent and then two more hours before they could reach the ground. This is NPR News from Washington. This message comes from wise, the app for international people using money around the globe.
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