Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Drones and missiles were launched across much of the Middle East today, as the U.S.
“Israeli war on Iran enters into its second week.”
Israeli fighter jets pounded targets in Iran's capital, and Pierskary Khan has more from Tel Aviv. Israel's military says it has dealt serious blows to Iran's air missile and drone system. They say they've been hitting targets throughout the country, and particularly in the capital, Tehran.
We have seen a decrease in the number of air raid sirens in Israel, signaling, incoming missiles or drones from Iran, but have to tell you overnight, and throughout the day, there was still more than a handful of sirens sending residents into the bomb shelter. And that's where I am right now.
And Pierskary Khan reporting, Israel also hit Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant
group is based, meanwhile Iran continued to fire drones and missiles into multiple Gulf states, and the death toll throughout the Middle East is rising, Iranian red crescent says more than 1,300 have been killed in Iran. And as the national average price for a gallon of regular gas rises, it's up more than 40 cents from a week ago, according to Tribal A. President Trump says he's not worried.
And Pierskary Khan has more.
“Trump often boasts about low gas prices, a key part of his plan to address affordability.”
Since the U.S. war with Iran began, gas prices have risen to their highest level since Trump returned to office. A board Air Force One, Trump was asked if he is worried about gas prices. And he said, no, this is an excursion. If you think in oil prices, we go up which they will, then we'll also come down, they'll
come down very fast, and we will have gotten rid of a major cancer by the face in the earth. We will take it out of cancer. Trump, who repeatedly referred to the war as an excursion, had just left the dignified transfer of 6 U.S. soldiers killed in the war.
Tamar Keith and PR News 7 big tech companies are pledging to keep energy costs down amid the AI data center boom.
“And a Merzbach from Mountain West News reports critics say the agreement with the Trump”
administration is non-binding. Amazon Google meta Microsoft Open AI Oracle and XAI all took the right pair protection pledge. They promised to pay for the energy infrastructure needed to power their data centers to not pass on cost to households, a big concern for voters.
Energy Justice Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, Gene Sue, says it's good the Trump administration is acknowledging the affordability problem. But there is no actual guarantee, no enforcement mechanism to actually make sure that big tech follows the rule on those promises, Sue says she wants to see rate payer protections mandated by law, along with limits on data center carbon emissions.
For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach in Jackson, Wyoming. You're listening to MPR News from Washington. The sampling from Britain's famous Sikomort Gap Tree, it's also known as the Robin Hood Tree, has returned to its native landscape in northern England two and a half years after it was illegally cut down.
Bikubarker has more from London. The sampling was planted by the ruins of Sikettinum Roman fort at the eastern end of the ancient fortification of Hadrian's Wall. That's about 35 miles from the location of the original tree, which stood about midway along the wall.
But it's where long distance walkers, hiking all 73 miles of the trail, begin or end their journey, which the community group that campaigned for the sampling hopes will add extra meaning to their achievement. Two men are serving four-year sentences for cutting down the iconic tree and act which sparked
international grief and outrage and one for which they've never apologized.
For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to designate the so-called Brady Bunch House in the San Fernando Valley as a historic cultural monument. The vote grants landmark protections to the House that was used for the exterior shots of the popular TV sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974.
The interior scenes, though, were shot on a sound stage, with sets that boron over resemblance to the actual property, but did become a photo-op magnet for Brady Bunch fans. The landmark status does protect the home, which was built in 1959. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
