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today where he delivered a pointed message. Stop the fighting, stop the bombing.
“There is no military solution, only diplomacy, dialogue, and fully implementation of the”
UN Charter and Security Council resolution. Israel has been targeting locations believed to be Hezbollah strongholds and Lebanon as blows back by Iran and started targeting Israel in response to the Iran War,
which is now in its third week.
U.S. Embassy in Baghdad reminding Americans and Iraq about the security situation, warning Americans and Iraq to leave immediately, and urging those who decide to stay to reconsider the embassy, citing threats by Iran back militias, posted the alert on social media, after a missile came down inside the embassy's compound overnight. Group representing Iran back militias has issued bounties for U.S. officials.
The announcement came soon after the U.S. issued a reward for information on several prominent Iranian officials, and here's our Zuras Fani reports. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is offering upwards of $100,000 for information on the wearabouts 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, Mojtab Ahamani. Zuras Fani and Pyrenees Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Under its 1,000 remain without power from Wisconsin to New York following last night's strong storms, and more extreme weather is expected over the coming days, and Pyra's map Bloomberg reports on forecast calling for a bevy of conditions across the nation from
a polar vortex in the Midwest and east to a heat wave in the west. The National Weather Service calls it an anomalously early heat wave. It's already started in southern California, Los Angeles has hit 90 degrees in recent days. By Monday, many southwest states could see highs reached the triple digits or close to it,
and stay there through much of the week. Meanwhile, heavy rains continue to batter Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.
And another powerful storm is forecast to intensify across the central U.S. starting Sunday
and Monday. The weather service says blizzard conditions could hamper travel plans in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, while strong winds and thunderstorms are expected in the southeast, map bloom and PR news. Yeah, you're listening to NPR news.
“The White House is moving to address a key voter concern ahead of November's mid-term”
elections. President Trump has signed two executive orders, aimed at improving housing affordability. One is intended to speed up home building. The other loosens rules around mortgages issued the orders a day after the Senate passed a housing bill.
Federal judge has blocked subpoenas issued an a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell. The judge says a probe is an improper attempt to intimidate the central bank into cutting interest rates. The judge said the only crime pal committed was displeasing President Trump.
Evidence of pre-industrial pollution has been found in the ice that caps a mountain in the Alps impairs no green peel boy's reports on this historical record that's disappearing as the ice melts. This particular glacier lies near the border between Italy and Austria, researchers drilled down through more than nine meters of it, then analyzed this ice-coars layer, which hold
chemical clues about past events. Azura Spagnazi is a climatologist at Kaffo Scari University of Venice. She says this ice record spans 6,000 years. Players from medieval times had spikes of lead, copper, and silver likely from air pollution created by increased mining of metals.
Ice layers from other periods showed pollution from mass of fires, maybe due to land being cleared for farming. A report on the findings appears in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, Nell Green Field Boys, NPR News Hey y'all, I'm Ann Powers from NPR Music. We have a special episode for you in the NPR Music feed this Saturday, an exclusive interview
with Casey Musgraves about her upcoming album, Middlet of No Where. I was in this literal middle of nowhere, it's such a fertile breeding ground for anything that's coming next. Listen in the NPR Music feed, wherever you get your podcasts.
