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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad came under fire again on Monday.
“This is a U.S. military and Iran-back militias and Iraq continue to exchange attacks.”
Impiro Shayna Raff has details. The Iraqi government said the U.S. Embassy and iconic hotel and an oil field were attacked. The suspected attackers were Iraqi militias that have targeted U.S. facilities in support of Iran. The interior ministry said a drone hit Baghdad's Rashid hotel used by the Iraqi government
and foreign delegations. It said there was some damage but no casualties. The U.S. military Monday launched heavy attacks against Iran-backed militia forces in and around Baghdad and near the Syrian border.
One of the militias, Katab Hezbollah, considered one of the most powerful in Iraq, announced
that a senior commander had been killed in a recent strike. Shayna Raff and Pyrenees. President Trump has scheduled to visit China at the end of this month, but at a White House event Monday, Trump told reporters that he's thinking of postponing as long as there is war with Iran.
I don't know. We're working on that right now. We're speaking to China.
“I'd love to, but because of the war, I want to be here.”
I have to be here, I feel, and so we've requested that we delay in a month or so. Trump also appealed to other countries to help ensure safe passage through the Strait of Formus and express frustration at some long-time allies are blocking.
The virtual shutdown of the Strait is leading to rising energy costs and fears of inflation.
Gas prices continue to rise across the country with the national average. Now up nearly 80 cents a gallon from a month ago, impires Camilla Dominozki reports that we could see gas prices rise even more. Food oil prices have been volatile over the last couple of weeks, rising and falling. But prices at the pump have only gone in one direction.
Up. Diesel prices are up even more sharply, rising well over a dollar from before the Iran war began. Higher prices put pressure on households directly when they buy gasoline and indirectly as higher diesel costs push up costs for farming, construction, trucking and all forms of shipping.
Meanwhile, the switch to summer gasoline, which cuts down on pollution and warm weather, could also help push prices higher in the coming weeks. Camilla Dominozki and PR news. Federal judge is blocking the Trump administration from overhauling the nation's vaccine policies, including the decision to slash the number of federally recommended vaccinations
for children. The judge embossed and also ruled that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated federal
“procedures when he revamped a key vaccine advisory committee.”
The decision is being held by leading health groups as historic and welcome as spokesman says the administration plans to appeal. This is in PR news. Afghanistan is accusing Pakistan of targeting a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul with an air strike.
Afghanistan's Taliban government says the strike killed at least 400 people with another 250 injured. Pakistan is rejecting the claim as false and misleading, the conflict that began last month has seen repeated cross-border clashes as well as air strikes inside Afghanistan. A wildfire covering nearly 600,000 acres is burning at Western Nebraska with few signs
of containment. Nebraska-puppled media's macy buyers reports. Constantly shifting high winds have made it difficult to control the spread of the largest wildfire in Nebraska history. The firefighters from across the state have been pitching in since Thursday to fight
it. Volunteer Tyler Bendo worked for 24 hours straight. I have been out here since yesterday since one o'clock. Still out here. I got a relief coming in right now to take me out so I can go home and get some rest.
When asked about the first thing he'll do when he gets home, Benda said, "Take
shower and go to sleep." Benda said he is thankful for the community support of firefighters and people affected. Federal help has arrived and winds have died down, but the large fire will still take some time to control. For NPR News, I'm Macy Byers.
Extreme weather coasts to coasts and as to weather services, strong storms, packing, damaging winds and potential tornadoes remain possible. From the coastal Carolina's into the mid-Atlantic, and the potential for snow remains on the forecast across the upper Midwest to the upper Great Lakes after blizzard conditions Monday in parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
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