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Multiple U.S. service members were wounded in an Iranian missile strike on Prince
“Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia today, that's according to an official not authorized”
to speak publicly. Some aircraft were possibly damaged as well.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on the strike saying 10 service members were wounded
with two considered seriously wounded. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries haven't joined the U.S. in Israeli-led war. 37 nations, meeting in France, have agreed to help secure the passage of ships in the state of Hormuz, but only once hostilities end. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports it's not the full-forted support President Trump was
looking for, but U.S. allies refused to be drawn into the conflict. Europeans were not informed about the U.S. Israel bombing campaign and still don't know U.S. goals for the war. "Infoil al-Qalmirovenu." Speaking after the summit, French Foreign Minister Jean-Urbaro admitted, "Esports for ships
will be necessary once the fighting stops," talking to reporters on the tarmac as he left France, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted it's everybody's responsibility to counter Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
“"Not only is this illegal, it's unacceptable, it's dangerous for the world, and it's important”
that the world have a plan to confront it." Still, no one knows how and when the conflict will end, Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News Paris. President Trump is signed in order to temporarily pay TSA agents who've worked without paid during the government's shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
Meanwhile, House Republicans have rejected a bill that passed the Senate to fund most of DHS through September. The funding laps is in its 42nd day and created long lines at many airports. Republicans are angry that the Senate bill would not fund ICE and border patrol. Democrats say they won't fund those departments without changes to immigration enforcement.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the House will instead vote tonight on a resolution to fund DHS at current levels until May as NPR's Barbara Sprunt explains. First, it has to pass the House. They're going to try to tee up a vote for that later this evening. If it does pass, then of course it has to pass the Senate and senators have already left
for a two-week recess. But the calendar aside, there is a political reality here as well for Senate Democrats. But they refuse to vote for anything that funds ICE, that was their whole premise to begin with with the shutdown.
“So I think it's very unlikely that they would suddenly change course NPR's Barbara Sprunt”
reporting.
More than seven million student loan borrowers who have been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment
plan will receive notices with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt. The save plan was struck down by a federal court this month, starting July 1st, loan services will issue notices giving borrowers 90 days to select a new repayment plan that Trump administration has called the plan unlawful loan forgiveness. U.S. stocks closed down today.
This is NPR News from Washington. A pro-Aranian hacking group claims it hacked an account of FBI Director Cash Patel and has posted online would appear to be his old personal photographs and documents, including a resume. The group posted a message taken credit for the breach, the FBI says the data involves
no government information. Golfer Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI today after a crash near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida, so FIA Baltadano of member station WLRN has more. The morning County Sheriff's Office say wood showed signs of impairment at the scene of the crash and which he struck under the vehicle and rolled over.
Authority say woods and the other driver were not injured. Wood is also facing another miseminer charge of refusal to submit a lawful test. While woods took a breath and a laser test, which register nothing, police say he refuses to submit a urine sample.
The accident marks the third time wood has been involved in a car crash.
In February 2021, his SUV ran off a coastal road in Los Angeles, causing multiple leg and ankle injuries. He was also arrested on DUI charge in 2017 when South Florida Police found him asleep behind the wheel. For MPR News, I'm Sophia Bautarano, in Miami.
Residents of a Missouri town can finally breathe easier, according to St. Louis Public Radio crews have removed erect semi-truck full of tofu that have been stinking up a stretch of highway and central Missouri for weeks. The truck's load became increasingly pungent as temperatures rose, one person wrote that it smelled like catfish bait.
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