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"A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR, the Israeli military would need several
“more weeks of fighting to achieve its war goals in Iran.”
NPR's Daniel Estrin has this from Tel Aviv." President Trump says the U.S. is holding talks to seek an end to the Iran war. Iran says no direct negotiations are happening. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump, and the Trump believes there's an opportunity to leverage U.S. Israeli military achievements in Iran to realize
the goals of the war through an agreement. A senior Israeli defense official tells NPR the war has degraded Iran's chain of command and many of its military industries, but that Israel has not yet achieved quote full strategic victory. The official who's not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity, estimated
Israel's military would need a few more weeks to achieve its goals in Iran, including
hitting Iranian military industries and capabilities, but that Trump could end the war at any time. Daniel Estrin NPR News, Tel Aviv.
“We now turn to NPR's Frank Ordonia's on the political stakes for Trump this midterm”
election year. Trump still likely has some runway politically to work with. I mean, right now most Republicans are behind him, but the party often struggles when Trump's name is not on the ballot, which it won't be. That said, if the U.S. and Israel can wrap this war up in a couple weeks, he'll probably
be all right politically. But John McHenry, a Republican pollster with North Star opinion research. He told me if the war goes on much longer than that, and gas prices continue to creep up, say another 50 cents or more, then you're going to start to see more inflation and not just in gas, but across the economy.
NPR's Frank Ordonia's a new study finds at the number of abortions is holding steady. NPR's Selena Simmons definition displays there's one major reason why that's true despite abortion bands in 13 states, a new report from the Gootmucker Institute finds there
“were 1,126,000 abortions provided by clinicians in 2025.”
That's pretty much unchanged from 2024. Isaac Maddoz-Zimit is one of the reports authors. There were shifts though and where those abortions were occurring. The biggest shift was that there were more abortions in states with abortion bands. That's because the Food and Drug Administration allows abortion medication to be prescribed
through telemedicine and sent through the mail. Abortion opponents are trying to end the practice through court challenges and new laws, Selena Simmons, Duffin, and PR news. U.S. senators are considering a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but not immigration and customs enforcement at the heart of the funding impasse.
Meanwhile, ice agents are deployed to several major airports while Trump administration officials say agents are there to help with TSA staffing shortages and long checkpoint lines, critics say ice agents lack TSA training. The Dow is up 21 points at last check. You're listening to NPR News.
We're expecting an update shortly from the National Transportation Safety Board investigating Sunday Night's runway collision at New York's Lagordia Airport. Two pilots are killed after their air-candidate plane landed in a strike of fire truck
responding to an emergency out of second aircraft.
NTSB Chair, Jennifer Hammond, D. told Fox and friends earlier investigators have a lot of questions for air traffic controllers. Everything from workload at the time, who was communicating, who was in the tower cab, who was in the facility, what the change over was like for the new shift, which is the midnight shift.
Our strike at one of the Navy's largest ship building contractors means Bath Ironworks. Main public's Erwin Gratz has latest. More than 600 designers clerks and technicians of the Bath Marine Draftman's Association rejected a contract offer Saturday, a union statement, said the offer failed to address concerns about wages, insurance coverage and retirement income security.
The company issued a statement saying its proposal included, quote, "historic annual wage increases," unquote, "that would increase pay by nearly 24% over four years." The shipyard is a subsidiary of General Dynamics and builds guided missile destroyers for the Navy. Although a 6800 workers and main company says that expects work to continue on the guided
missile destroyers, it builds for the Navy. The company also says it will continue to negotiate with the draftman's union. For NPR News, I'm Erwin Gratz, in Portland, Maine. The Nasdaq is down 154 points or roughly 3/4 of a percent the S&P's Fall in 14. The Dow is up 7 points, its NPR News.
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