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The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned Tuesday over his opposition to the war in Iran.
“He's a military veteran who served multiple tours in Iraq.”
He had staunchly supported President Trump because Trump had promised not to get the U.S. involved in new Middle East wars. NPR National Security correspondent Greg Myri reports, "He addressed this letter directly to Trump and was very blunt." He wrote, "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran, Iran posed
no imminent threat to our nation, and it's clear that we started this war due to pressure
from Israel and its powerful American lobby."
He also said he supported Trump in all three of his presidential campaigns because Trump "understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots." NPR's Greg Myri, about a fifth of oil and liquified natural gas supplies remain shut off from the world as the straight-of-horn moods remains closed, but his NPR's Julia Simon
reports some countries are better prepared than others for in energy crisis.
“On rooftops of millions of Pakistani homes are gleaming solar panels.”
Pakistan still imports LNG from Qatar for electricity, though supplies are now cut off. The prices for substitutes are sky-high, but Nabiya Imran, a Pakistani think tank renewables first, says the recent surge of solar and battery installations in just the last three
years, means the country is less vulnerable.
The widespread option of solar and batteries is kind of served as a hedge protection sort of against these price shocks. It's not just solar and batteries. Energy experts tell NPR the recent growth of electric vehicles in countries like Nepal and China also make countries more resilient as oil prices climb, Julia Simon and Phearnews.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold its benchmark interest rate steady today NPR Scott Horstley reports. The price of gasoline and diesel fuel has jumped sharply since the U.S. launched its attack on Iran two and a half weeks ago, even before the war began, inflation was running stubbornly higher than the Fed's target.
That makes it harder for the central bank to cut interest rates even as the job market shows signs of needing more support. Over the last six months, the U.S. economies added virtually no jobs. Jerome Powell is near in the end of his term as Fed chairman, but the timetable for confirming a successor is up in the air.
“A key Republican senator has promised a block confirmation of President Trump's nominee,”
Kevin Worsh, until the Justice Department ends its criminal pro with the central bank. Scott Horstley and Phearnews, Washington. Venezuela defeated the U.S. three to two in the final game of the preseason ruled baseball classic held in Miami and you're listening to NPR news. Voters in Illinois went to the polls Tuesday to select the Democratic and Republican nominees
for the U.S. Senate seat now being held by the Senate Minority Whip Dicturban who is retiring. Illinois's lieutenant governor Julian Straton won the primary and his favor to keep the seat in the Democratic Party column in November dozens of candidates were also running for several open seats in the House of Representative Illinois's governor JB Pritzker also won his primary
to seek a third term in Springfield.
To keep foreign bad actors like terrorist and drug traffickers out of the country, the federal government all fin and post is financial sanctions. Anyone on the sanctions list is barred from doing business here. Voters NPR's Robert Ben Costa reports the Treasury Department sanctions have taken a new direction under President Trump.
The Treasury Department under Trump has sanctioned people after they've criticized the president or his political allies. For example, shortly after Trump took office, he sanctioned judges and prosecutors at the international criminal court after the court issued arrest warrants for his really prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on war crimes allegations.
Secretary of State Mark Arubio has called the International Court's actions politicized. The critics of the administration's use of sanctions make the same claim. David Presman, a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, says sanctions should reinforce the country's strategic interests and not "advanced personal vendettas," Robert Ben Costa and PR News, Washington.
It was a mixed-day on Wall Street Tuesday that Dow was down 19 points, but the Nasdaq and S&P were up fractionalally. I'm Dan Ronin, NPR News in Washington. Support for NPR. Want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that let us hear and maybe
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