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The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says he does not believe the current
“war in Iran can entirely eliminate that nation's nuclear program, and PR's Jeff Bromfield”
has more. IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossy says Iran's nuclear program has been heavily damaged by repeated strikes, but speaking to reporters in Washington, DC, he said he expects it will survive the current conflict in some form. That's because the program isn't just located at Iran's main nuclear site, he says.
It's also scattered across the university, laboratories, and industrial facilities throughout the country. When the current war ends, he predicts we will still have a number of issues that will require a solution.
Grossy says his agency is ready to aid negotiations, and it's ready to restart nuclear
inspections when the fighting stops. Jeff Bromfield and PR News reactions are pouring in from around Central California
“to a New York Times investigation into allegations that labor and civil rights leader”
Caesar Chavez sexually assaulted young girls in the 1970s, as well as a former civil rights icon Dolores Herta from Member Station WKVPR Kerry Klein has more. Miguel Arias is a Fresno City Council member. He says the reporting shocked him. Arias is the son of farm workers and called Werta the matriarch of the Latino community.
He's calling to rename Fresno's Cesar Chavez Boulevard. It's absolutely the right thing to do. Other elected officials expressed support for Dolores Werta. Some call it for Cesar Chavez Day to be renamed Farm Worker Day. The president of California State University Fresno said a statue of Chavez on campus would
be removed. For NPR News, I'm Kerry Klein in Fresno. A day after the House oversite committee issued a subpoena for Attorney General Pam Bondi to appear for a deposition on the department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Bondi appeared for a closed or briefing with the committee.
Democrats say they left the briefing because it was hastily arranged and they wanted Bondi under oath with the transcript to be released publicly.
The committee chairman Republican James Comer says he's never seen anything like this.
I've never seen. Member Storm out of a briefing with the Attorney General and the entire leaders of the Department of Justice and their answer questions and they don't ask a single question. The Trump administration has faced numerous political headaches since the rollout of the Epstein files in December.
“The Federal Reserve said Wednesday is going to keep the key interest rates unchanged, chairman”
Jerome Paul says there is increasing concern about the strength of the U.S. economy because of the war against Iran, your listening to NPR news. The Federal Bureau of Investigations may be purchasing commercially available data that can be used to track Americans' locations as NPR's Jew-Juffy Block reports that came out of a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing it was held on Wednesday.
In 2023, the FBI director Chris Ray told Congress the FBI was no longer purchasing commercial databases that include location data from Internet advertising. At this hearing, Democratic Senator Ron White and Oregon asked current FBI director Cash Patel if he could also commit to not purchasing American's location data. Patel did not.
We do purchase commercially available information that's consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. White and says data purchases without a warrant are an end run around the Fourth Amendment and that's compounded by the potential to use AI to comb through private information. A spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment or clarify what data the FBI is buying.
Jude Jaffee Block and Pyrenees. The price of oil increased Wednesday as Iran's South-Pars natural gas field was struck. And Iran retaliated hitting an oil refinery and cutter. The U.S. says it did not attack the Iranian gas facility. The price of West Texas intermediate was up more than $3 a barrel for about $100 a
barrel, Brett Crude increased to $11 a barrel. Triple A says nationwide gasoline prices have climbed to now 384 a gallon. Up 70 cents more than they were a year ago. Diesel is also soaring. This is NPR News from Washington.
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