"Ly, from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
As Iran and the United States push their respective demands to stop the war, Israel.
“Is speeding up its military strikes in Iran ahead of a possible ceasefire?”
That is according to a person briefed on the matter, who spoke with NPR's Daniel Estrin and Tel Aviv. The person who did not have authorization to speak publicly says the Israeli military is speeding up its targeting in Iran over the next 48 hours, focusing on trying to hit Iran's arms factories as much as possible in case a ceasefire is declared.
While the U.S. and Iran both want a deal to end the war, there are wide gaps between their demands. Pakistan is emerging as a potential host for talks. An official in Islamabad not authorized to speak publicly, tells NPR Pakistan's interior minister held a secret meeting with Iran's ambassador today.
Israel wants to keep pressing on in the war, and Iran continues targeting Israel with missile fire towards central Israel and the Jerusalem area. Daniel Estrin and PR news, Tel Aviv. Triple A says on average, people are paying nearly $4 for a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States, the result of ongoing oil shipping disruptions from Iran's blockade
of a straight-up or move. The President Trump's cabinet meeting today Treasury Secretary Scott Besson sought to reassure Americans. Many people, especially the Democrats, underestimate the will of the American people for short-term volatility for 50 years of safety that we are going to have on the other side of this.
“And I believe energy prices will be lower, inflation will be lower.”
NPR Scott Horsley highlights one way the government's trying to control the price surge. The EPA will allow gas stations to keep selling fuel with a higher ethanol content this summer. The move is likely to cause some additional air pollution. It's intended to keep a lid on gas prices.
NPR Scott Horsley, the United Kingdom, is facing the sharpest down gray to its forecast for economic growth for any major economy according to the organization for economic cooperation and development. It says many major economies will be affected with the UK being among the worst. Your ZNPR is Ruth Sherlock.
The OECD has slashed its forecast for Britain's economic growth from 1.2% down to 0.7%. And it says inflation is also predicted to be higher than expected.
“This comes as it downgrades its forecasts for many of the world's major economies.”
The wholeton shipments through the critical straight-of-hodermost waterway and the closure
and damage of some energy infrastructure is causing energy prices to saw, as well as that of other vital commodities such as fertilizer, which is pushing up the cost of everything from car and heating fuel to food. Among the G7 countries, the OECD says the only country predicted to have higher inflation than the UK is the United States.
Ruth Sherlock and Pion News United Kingdom. It's NPR News. Members of Congress are set to vote on advancing a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. A top official at the Transportation Security Administration warns that if the partial
government shutdown continues tomorrow, TSA will have misnearly a billion dollars in
paychecks since the shutdown began weeks to go. Hot wind kneel also tells lawmakers that it's some major U.S. airports travelers have waited more than four hours at security checkpoints as more TSA officers call out sick at rates of 40 to 50%. While its surprise winning author Tracy Kitter has died, NPR's net at Ula B. reports Kitter wrote
deeply reported best sellers on topics ranging from computers to people dedicating themselves to public health. Tracy Kitter's breakthrough book came out in 1981. The sole of the new machine is about the development of a then unusual device known as a computer.
Computers are an interesting sort of machine for people who are disposed in that way I think that they're so complicated. After on NPR the year the book came out, now it's considered a tech classic. He went on to write a book about a year he spent immersed in a low income fifth grade classroom and he wrote influential books about people on the front lines of what he called
morality and medicine. His biography of humanitarian Dr. Paul Farmer, mountains beyond mountains came out in 2003. Tracy Kitter died two-day of lung cancer. He was 80 years old. I'm Lakshmi saying NPR news.
