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President Trump told Republican lawmakers a short time ago that the war in the Middle
East won't last long. "We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some people.
“And I think you'll see it's going to be a short term excursion."”
His comments come after oil and gas prices fluctuated wildly in recent days, sending financial markets really because of the conflict. Today the price of oil whipped from nearly $120 a barrel, the highest since 2022, to back down below $90. Meanwhile, Iran is signaling that it's prepared for a long war with the U.S. and its allies
as the conflict stretches into a tenth day. Kamal Karazi, a foreign policy adviser to the Office of Iran Supreme Leader, told CNN
the country is ruling out diplomacy for now.
"I don't see anyone for diplomacy anymore, because Donald Trump has been deceiving others, and not keeping it his promises. And we experienced this in two times of negotiations that while we were engaged in negotiations, the instructions." Karazi says Gulf Arab countries and other U.S. allies need to pressure the U.S. into ending
the war.
“Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, says he sent drone teams to the Middle East to help”
the U.S. and its allies combat the drone weapons being fired by Iran. As NPR is a Greg Myri reports of Ukraine has become a world leader in this type of warfare after being invaded by Russia.
President Zelensky said he dispatched the drone team shortly after receiving the request
from the U.S. last week. Zelensky also said he spoke in with several Arab leaders, including those in the Gulf, who are close to Iran, and are being hit by drones in hard to defend civilian sites. Russia received drones and drone technology from Iran and can now fire hundreds of the weapons that Ukraine in a single night.
In turn, Ukraine is rapidly developed several types of small, effective drone interceptors that can cost as little as $1,000. Ukraine says that on many nights, it shoots down 90% or more of the drones that Russia fires. Greg Myri, MPR News, Washington. An anthropic is suing the Trump administration, the AI company wants the Pentagon to reverse
its decision, designating it as a supply chain risk. Over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology, the Pentagon made the formal designation last week after an unusually public dispute over how anthropics AI chatbot Claude could be used in warfare. The Trump administration is criticizing lower courts for that slowed its efforts to strip
legal protections from many foreign nationals, and is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for moves that could expose thousands more people to deportation and a letter to the court. The Justice Department says it wants a broad ruling that would let it move more quickly to end protections for people from multiple countries, including Haiti and Syria.
This is NPR News from Washington. A Texas judge has ordered camp mystic to preserve facilities damaged by last year's flood that killed 25 girls in two counselors. The order followed a lawsuit by the family of an eight-year-old who is swept away in the flood last fourth of July and whose body still hasn't been recovered.
The family argues that any changes that the camp could destroy evidence needed in their lawsuit. The camp says there was little they could have done during the catastrophic flooding. People who take hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause or experiencing delays when they go to pick up their prescriptions and P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports.
After the FDA removed warning labels from estrogen, more women are asking about hormone therapy. Dr. Nora Lansing, the chief medical officer of Elector Health says menopause hormone therapy has grown steadily over the last several years and many women now use estrogen patches which deliver the hormone through the skin instead of taking oral estrogen pills.
“This transgender version of estradiol is really a much safer option and that's why there's”
been such demand. CVS says manufacturers have been unable to provide sufficient supplies of estrogen patches and some manufacture is acknowledged shortages but do not provide a reason. Allison Aubrey and PR news. Bo, the bloodhound has joined the North Dakota Highway Patrol, the pup joins a band of dogs
that's in demand for difficult cases around the Midwest and have now become something of a social media sensation the patrol now has four bloodhounds and they've been called to Montana, South Dakota, and Utah to help in searches. S&P 500 gained more than three quarters of a percent today. This is NPR News from Washington.
