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Alex McClendon is with member station WDET into Detroit. He's been covering the attack on Temple Israel and West Bloomfield.
“South East Michigan is a very diverse area in local law enforcement say when tension is high globally. For instance, like right now in the Middle East, law enforcement here are also on alert.”
It should be noted that the FBI's Detroit office says they carried out an active shooter drill at the Temple Israel about six weeks ago. The FBI is leading the investigation into the attack in which a suspect crashed his truck into the synagogue. The truck burst into flames after security guards fired on it. The suspect was killed. No one else was killed, but a guard was injured. The FBI is also investigating today's attack at Virginia's old Dominion University. Authority say a convicted Islamic State supporter killed one person in injured to others a gunman was killed by ROTC students.
Iran's new Supreme Leader is bowing to fight on and to keep the strategic straight-up or moves shut down. A message attributed to a much to Bahamane was read Thursday by a television presenter as both sides trade air strikes. And as Iran war approaches the two-week mark Israel has also been targeting Hezbollah and Lebanon. And here's Hadeel Al-Shaljee is in Beirut.
The Israeli military said it started a new wave of strikes in the Lebanese capital as an issued evacuation orders for parts of central Beirut for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iran.
“Explosions rocked the city as strikes hit a building in the Bashuta neighborhood just one kilometer from downtown Beirut.”
It's a busy commercial area and close to the Prime Minister's office. The Israeli military did not immediately say what it was targeting in the building. The Israeli chief of staff said that the military operation in Lebanon will "not be short," he said that Israel would be ready to bring additional troops and act with "great determination" to fight Hezbollah. Hadeel Al-Shaljee and PR news, Beirut.
Iran war continuing to upen the oil market and unsettle investors in the stock market as MPR's Maria Aspen reports. The price of oil again rose above a hundred dollars a barrel, signaling more pain ahead at the gas pump for consumers. That's intensifying investor worries about inflation and the broader economy.
“It's also raising questions about how soon the federal reserve will start cutting interest rates again.”
The Fed typically lowers the cost of borrowing as inflation cools, but it's still above the Fed's target rate of 2%. Now the war and its impact on oil prices threatened to heat it up again. Dollar general is among the businesses warning that higher prices will hurt its customers. It shares foul after the discount retailer told investors to expect slower sales growth this year.
Maria Aspen and PR news. And this is MPR news. The Trump administration is moving to try to ease supply concerns amid the Iran war. Treasury Secretary Scott Basin says the U.S. is lifting sanctions on Russian oil and petroleum products stranded at sea for 30 days, allowing Russian oil to be shipped to buyers around the world.
Last week, Treasury issued a 30 day waiver specifically for India. This latest move comes a day after the energy department said it would be releasing
170 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve.
Part of a broader release of 400 million barrels by the 32 member nations of the Paris based international energy agency. Levels of fiscal activity or worldwide have basically stayed the same the last 20 years. And PR is Jonathan Lambert reports on new research showing nearly 1 and 3 adults and 8 and 10 children don't get enough exercise. Studies show that being physically active cuts the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer,
and combustible health. Countries worldwide have taken note of that research and tried to coax their populations to move more. But those efforts haven't amounted to much according to new studies published in Nature Medicine. Deborah Salvo is a researcher at UT Austin. Despite really good science, great interventions, good ideas for policy, the levels of physical inactivity globally haven't really improved. While many governmental agencies do some work to
boost physical activity, the researchers say it's usually not the focus of any single one. To get more people moving, they suggest that perhaps one agency in a country should take responsibility. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. And I'm Joel Snyder. This is MPR News. This week on Consider This, warn Ron and a new front in Lebanon. What is the cost and lives and to Americans at home? And in Ukraine after four years the war there grinds on. Is that what
Russians want? Our reporters are on the ground with firsthand reporting from Beirut, Moscow. Listen in for their stories, or consider this on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts.
