Live from NPR news on trial Snyder with the war in the Middle East now in its...
day President Trump says he was justified in launching strikes against Iran this past
weekend. Speaking at the White House Wednesday, Trump said the U.S. needed to act before Iran did. I think we have great support.
“And I think if we didn't do it first, and they would have done it to Israel and give”
us a shot of that was possible. The Trump administration has been criticized for giving conflicting reasons for military action against Iran, and Democrats accused the President of launching a war of choice. But they failed to push through a war power's resolution in the Senate, and every publicans blocked the measure in a largely party-line vote Wednesday.
The House is expected to take up its own war power's resolution today.
Iran's Foreign Minister is calling the sinking of an Iranian warship of Sri Lanka
in atrocity at sea. Sri Lankan official say at least 80 people were killed, Defense Secretary Pete Heggsess, as a U.S. Navy submarine fired on the vessel. China's economy has been sluggish in recent years, and the government has now set its lowest economic growth target in decades, and Piers John Ruach reports.
The Chinese government sets targets each year for a raft of economic figures, a holdover
“from the planned economy era, at the start of the annual session of Parliament Premier”
Lee Chang says the authorities are aiming for gross domestic product growth of 4.5% to 5% this year. It's the least ambitious target for GDP since 1991, according to Bloomberg. Last year's target was around 5%. So it's not a major downshift.
The authorities have been tolerant of what for China accounts as slow growth for several years. They're trying to shift away from a dependency on investment and exports to growth based on domestic consumption, but the process has been slow. Officials have also amped up efforts for China to become a tech powerhouse.
The authorities announced an expected 10% rise in spending on science and technology. The Defense Budget is set to grow 2 up this year by 7%. John Ruach and PR News, Shanghai.
“On Tana Republic and Senator Steve Daines has announced his retire Benty withdrew from”
his reelection bid Wednesday, just before Montana's deadline for candidates to file for the November mid-term election. On Tana Public Radio, Shaley Rager has more. Daines, who was heavily favored to win reelection, said in a statement that he's been wrestling with the decision for months.
Serving the people of Montana in the U.S. House in the U.S. Senate, the past 13 years has been the greatest honor of my professional career. Montana Republican U.S. Attorney Kurt Almy filed to run for U.S. Senate just as Daines dropped out, minutes before the candidate filing period closed. Daines immediately endorsed Almy.
President Donald Trump appointed Almy the state's U.S. Attorney twice, and endorsed his candidacy on truth social. Almy has not run for office before. "You're listening to NPR news. President Trump says he'll make an endorsement soon in the Texas Senate runoff between
Republican and Combin John Coranan, and state attorney general Ken Paxton. And an official media post, Trump said the candidate who does not get his endorsement should drop out for the good of the party. President and Paxton advanced to a runoff this May after Tuesday's primary election. The Republican led House oversight committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General
Pam Bondi. lawmakers in both parties want Bondi to testify in oversight's investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a senior Chinese leader who took part in the revolution that put the country's Communist Party in power has died. Emily Fang has more."
Donald Trump was 109 years old when he died in Beijing, making him older than China's Communist Party itself. He joined the party as a young college graduate rising through the ranks to become one
of the first directors of Tsinghua, which would become the official state news agency
after 1849, working directly with senior leaders like Chairman Mao Zedong and Foreign Minister Joe Wen-Lang, and then finally joining the party's elite Politburo. Trump infamously criticized pro-democracy protestors during big demonstrations in Tiananmen's Square in 1989, and he was also a kingmaker. While the party's chief and northwestern Gensu Province, Song mentored and then elevated
Hu Jingtao and Wind Apple, both of whom would later go on to head the party. But under Xi Jinping who succeeded Hu Jingtao, Song's protegees and their networks fell out of favor. Emily Fang and Pernus. And I'm Jail Snyder, this is MPR News.
