The Pentagon is deploying around 2,500 more marines to the Middle East, even ...
Trump posted on social media yesterday that his administration is thinking about winding down military operations against Iran.
“At the same time, the Pentagon is asking Congress for $200 billion more to fund the war.”
Iran says the top spokesman for its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC,
was killed yesterday in an air strike. Meanwhile, we get to tales from NPR to Emily Feng who is on Turkey's border with Iran, speaking to Iranians who say they have mixed feelings about joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on their country. An estimated hundreds of Iranians are crossing to Turkey each day, some to escape bombing
others simply to connect to internet, which the government has blocked at Iran. This man's being on condition of anonymity for fear of being arrested, said people are trying to live normally in Iran, despite the bombing. He says he hopes the strikes can topple his government, but he mourns for the civilians killed in the strike.
“Israel said it had killed the IRGC's top spokesperson, Ali Muhammad, 90 overnight in”
an air strike, and joint U.S. and Israeli strikes also killed the senior commander in the IRGC, as well as Iran's security chief, Ali Lerijani this week. Emily Feng and Pyrenees, then Turkey. Socks were down again on Wall Street yesterday, because of fears that the war is escalating as NPR's Raphael Nam reports, investors are now preparing for a longer conflict.
When the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran at the end of last month, investors crossed their fingers and hoped the war would end quickly. But three weeks later, investors are starting to get deeply concerned as the war rages on.
The straight of her moves remains virtually shut, which means that critical supplies of energy
and other vital shipments like fertilizer are not getting through. That's raising big concerns about inflation, and that the global economy is going to be hit by an energy crisis. All three major indexes dropped and have now fallen for four consecutive weeks. Raphael Nam in PR News.
On Capitol Hill, some progress is reported and bipartisan talks to resolve the ongoing DHS shutdown that's increasingly taking its toll on the thousands of unpaid TSA workers. Following Talks yesterday, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia Democrats sounded hopeful. This needs to be resolved.
I mean, there are genuine, just be it about ice reforms.
“I think no one wants to see a return of what we saw in Minneapolis or public and Senator”
John Hoven talked about possible changes. Make a progress. We had had some good discussions with members on the other side of the aisle. The administration has made real a common sense. Good offer to Democrats, includes body cameras, includes more training.
This is NPR. US prosecutors are investigating Colombian President Gustavo Petro for possible ties to drug traffickers. That's according to accounts published by the New York Times and other media outlets. And while we wait at reports, it comes about a month after Petro met with Trump at the White House to discuss combating drug trafficking.
According to the Times, federal prosecutors and Manhattan and Brooklyn are in the early stages of investigating if Petro's presidential campaign met with and took money from drug traffickers. NPR has not independently verified the investigation. The Trump administration has not commented. The Colombian Embassy in Washington said that reports of investigations against Petro were
not confirmed by any quote "competent authority" and added that the president has confronted criminal activity throughout his public life. President Trump has often accused Petro being an ally of drug traffickers. A charge of the Colombian president has rejected. For NPR news on Manorreda in Lima, Peru.
Paro Pharmaceuticals Children's Ibu Prof. and Oral's suspension has recalled about 90,000 bottles of its pain reliever for youngsters due to reports of particles and other contaminants. The Food and Drug Administration posted a notice of the recall online after some customers reported a quote "jeal-like mass" and "black particles" in the product. The medication comes in a very flavored formula for kids as young as two regulators
at the FDA says it's unlikely the product that's been recalled poses a threat. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
