Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Trump administration says it's deploying federal immigration agents to help speed up
“long airport security lines starting tomorrow.”
And here's Jennifer Ludden reports, President Trump first announced the idea yesterday
and says it's not clear yet exactly what their job will be. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Homan told CNN Sunday the plan was a work in progress, he said he did not foresee ICE agents' manning x-rays since they're not trained for that. And instead suggested the guard airport exits. These officers are well trained in security and the well trained and identification.
And like we're going to do, we can help TSA move those people to the line. A partial government shutdown has left TSA agents unpaid and hundreds of quit or not shown up according to the White House. When asked if ICE agents would also carry out immigration enforcement, Homan said they already do that all the time at airports.
Jennifer Ludden and peer news, Washington. Iran is threatening to escalate strikes on U.S. and Israeli infrastructure in the region.
“Along with crucial water desalination facilities,”
if President Trump goes through on his threat last night to, quote, obliterate Iran's power plants, if the country doesn't open the street of Hormuz. Iran's effectively blocked the street since the U.S. and Israel started a war there,
now in its fourth week, some 20% of the world's oil passes through that critical trade
route. This after Iran targeted a joint U.S. UK base in the Indian Ocean yesterday that missed while nuclear sites in Iran and in Israel were attacked. With no major economic data coming up this week, Wall Street investors will continue to closely follow the war with Iran.
And peers Raphael Nam reports investors are bracing for a lot of volatility. There are few things that are more difficult to process for investors than not having any sense of what comes next.
“And as the war ranges on, investors are starting to get alarmed about defects under U.S.”
and the global economies.
One big fear is inflation, Americans are already feeling the effects of higher gasoline prices.
Well, diesel prices are also spiking. Businesses and households could also start reducing their spending if they were more cautious about the economy. And the continued declining stock markets could hit retirement for full use as well. Alata depends on when the conflict ends, Raphael Nam and P.R. News.
And as oil and gas prices continue to soar because of the war on Iran, which soars no sign of ending, AAA says the average price of a gallon of regular gas nationwide is $3.94 cents. That's up nearly a dollar from just a month earlier. This prices are likely to remain elevated for some time, even if the war ends soon because
shipping and production have been disrupted, that will take time to restore. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Kenya says it will grant Amnesty to its citizens who enlisted to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine. This follows talks in Moscow last week between the Russian and Kenyan foreign affairs ministers.
Daniel Gunza has more from Nairobi. Kenya's foreign affairs minister Musalimudavadi says the government will not prosecute citizens who join Russia's military despite closed banning enlistment in foreign armed forces without approval. Russia and Kenya last week signed an agreement to hold further recruitment of Kenyans.
It allows those currently deployed to terminate their contracts and return home. Officials say more than 1,000 Kenyans are known to have been recruited. Some have been repatriated while others remain on the frontlines. Some families report Russia making this honest and lucrative offers to recruit Kenyans for its depleted forces.
Russia maintains their enlistment, war voluntary, for MPR News Amnesty Gunza in Nairobi, Kenya. An unusually early and record-breaking heat wave is spreading east after busting records and more than 160 cities around the country. Containers Lake, Arizona, hit a record high of 112 degrees last week, but there's more to come from this heat dome.
The National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings and advisories in the southwest, including Las Vegas and Phoenix, which could see triple-digit highs daily this week. And this heat is spreading to parts of the plains, the Ohio Valley, and the southeast up to the middle Atlantic. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
