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"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, a group representing Iran back militias...

bounties for U.S. officials. The announcement came soon after the U.S. issued a reward

for information on several prominent Iranian officials and PRS-RZU-Rotsvani reports."

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is offering upwards of $100,000 for information on the whereabouts of high-ranking U.S. military and intelligence officials. That's according to a message posted in the group's telegram channel. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which is comprised of several Iran-backed armed factions, claimed responsibility for recently downing a U.S. military aircraft in Iraq, killing all six crew members. The bounty

was announced soon after the U.S. State Department said it would offer a $10 million reward

for information on 10 senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, including the newly appointed Supreme Leader, Mochdeb Ahamani. "Arzurazvani and PR News are BL in the Kurdistan region of Iraq." " Huge plumes of smoke rose over an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates today. It was hit by debris from an intercepted Iranian drone. A day after President Trump said military targets on a key Iranian island were destroyed." French President Emmanuel Macron says France

is ready to facilitate ceasefire talks between Israel and Lebanon. He posted a social media message today after meeting Friday with Ukrainian President Vladimir Solinsky.

And PR's Eleanor Beard's report said Solinsky says the U.S. decision to lift sanctions

on Russia would only fuel Moscow's war machine. "A dollar to continue is war." "A dollar to continue is war." "No." "Any in President also spoke to students at a Paris university where he appeared relaxed and full of humor. He said Ukraine would provide Middle Eastern nations with the anti-drone

technology to defend themselves." Solinsky told the students the worst thing in a war is to be

alone. Eleanor Beard's Lee and PR News Paris. "U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Engineering Bureau expressing outrage after a federal judge blocks the penis issued in a criminal investigation into Fed chair Jerome Powell." "This judge has put himself at the entrance door to the grand jury slamming that door shut irrespective of the legal process and thus preventing the grand jury from doing the work that it does." "And his ruling the judge said there is no

evidence that Powell engaged in wrongdoing linked to congressional testimony he gave about renovations to a Fed building. And you're listening to MPR News. Strong storms last night left hundreds of thousands without power from Wisconsin and Michigan to Virginia and New York. Ohio is a hardest hit according to poweroutage.us more than 300,000 customers are without our without electricity there. There are also a slew of poweroutages in Hawaii where a state of

emergency remains in effect from what's called a colonist storm it began dumping rain on the islands this week. Richard Grinnell will soon be departing his position as president of the Kennedy Center under Grinnell's leadership. The center has seen numerous artists cancel performances, staff departures, and plummeting ticket sales. Here's Empiracy Elizabeth Blair." Richard Grinnell has long had reputation as a brash loyalist to president Trump. He served as the

U.S. ambassador to Germany during Trump's first term. Grinnell's leadership at the Kennedy

Center has been marked by controversy among the artists who canceled where actor E. Sir Ray, musician Rianne Giddens, and a touring production of Hamilton. Grinnell eliminated the center's social impact division, which built connections with local communities in Washington, D.C. Trump announced on social media that pending approval of the Center's Board of Directors, Grinnell will be replaced by Matt Floka, currently the Center's Vice President for Operations.

Trump is the first U.S. president to chair the Kennedy Center's Board. Elizabeth Blair and PR News. "You're going to offer moths as being remembered as one of the world's most influential philosophers

and a key intellectual in his native Germany, or of a moths as publishers, says he died today,

he was 96. I'm trial Snyder, MPR News." "Hey y'all, I'm Ann Powers from Empiracy. We have a special episode for you in the Empiracy Music Feed, this Saturday, an exclusive interview with Casey Musgraves about her upcoming album, Middle of nowhere." "I was in this literal middle of nowhere. It's such a fertile breeding ground for anything that's coming next." "Listen in the Empir music feed,

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