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Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson is defending the war in Iran, predicting that gas prices will be on the decline soon, and PR's Claudia Griesonley's report. He's also pushing back against worries about invading Cuba. Speaker Johnson argued the war in Iran is limited in scope, and high gas prices are a "temperary" blip.
Johnson also said there's no reason to think the U.S. would be putting troops on the ground in Cuba. I don't think there's the appetite to put boots on the ground in Cuba.
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I think the system is in the process of collapsing because it's a socialist regime,
and those experiments never work.
However, the Speaker acknowledged the military was in need of supplemental funding even before the Iran war. So he and other Republicans are reevaluating a path for a supplemental bill through a partisan process known as reconciliation, despite their tight margins in Congress. What do you say this, in Piano's?
France has deployed warships in the Eastern Mediterranean, and Piano's owner Beardsley reports France says they're there for defensive purposes. Speaking from aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, President of manual Macron said France is there to protect its own, its allies, and to ensure freedom of navigation. But we will not participate in the war that's underway, he said.
Macron called Iran's drone attack on Cyprus and attack on all of Europe.
“Cyprus is a member of the European Union.”
The French President said the conflict's duration depends on U.S. Israeli objectives. He warned that changes to Iranian leadership could not occur through bombings alone. Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris. A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that prediction markets are avoiding the law. His empire's Bobby Allen reports there are more than 20 federal lawsuits over the bedding
crisis future U.S. District Judge Sarah Morrison says, "Absolite calcium polymarket are no different than gambling. Couchy argued it should not be regulated like a gambling operation because it's technically a type of futures contract, not a gambling site. But billions of dollars are spent every week on calcium where people bet on who will win
the latest season of survivor, whether Trump will say midnight hammer, and how many times sports announcers will say the word foul. In her ruling, Morrison wrote, "Treating this as anything other than gambling is absurd."
“Couchy says it plans to appeal nearly $6 billion was traded in the past week on calcium”
polymarket, which is up nearly 2,000 percent from last year, Bobby Allen and PR news.
Today's special election to replace reformer Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green will head to a runoff next month. With more than a dozen candidates on the ballot none earned more than 50 percent of the vote according to a race call from the Associated Press, President Trump's pick to replace Green District Attorney Clay Fuller will face off against Democratic, retired Brigadier
General Sean Harris, the district is heavily conservative. This is NPR News. Authorities say a Florida woman has been charged with attempted murder over gunshots, fired at a singing superstar Rihanna's L.A. home last weekend. The prosecutors say she, her partner, rapper, ASOP Rocky, and their three small children
and her mother were all on the property at the time. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are anticipating changes at the Department of Homeland Security now that Secretary Christy Knome is on her way out, Blue Ridge Public Radio's
Gerard Albert, the third reports.
Knome had an outsized role in the federal emergency management agency or FEMA, and North Carolina is still waiting on hundreds of millions of FEMA funds to recover from Hurricane Halene. Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards represents most of the area damaged by flooding and landslides in the 2024 storm.
"I certainly welcome a change in the direction of Homeland Security, particularly for the recovery of Western North Carolina. What we have experienced for the last several months has not been working." Officials in North Carolina are hopeful President Trump's new pick to lead DHS, Senator Mark Wayne Mullin, speeds up the flow of recovery dollars.
For NPR News, I'm Gerard Albert III in Asheville. Thousands of long dormant flowers are blooming through the desert soil of death Valley National Park in California, Nevada, transforming the barren landscape and carpets of purple and gold. The super bloom is a result of steady rain in the fall and winter, but experts say it won't
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