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a social media post Monday. Trump claimed progress is being made and talks with Iran,
“which dives direct negotiations. But he said, "If the straight-of-formuase has not opened”
immediately, the U.S. would target Iranian power plants, oil wills, our island, and possibly desalination plants." Meanwhile, an Iranian missile strike on a base in Saudi Arabia wounded, at least a dozen U.S. troops. Iran also destroyed two vital American radar planes as impure squalorance reports. A U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed to NPR that two E3's sentry aircraft were damaged in the Iranian missile
and drone attack on Friday. The E3's sentries are known as AWACs, which stands for airborne
warning and control system aircraft, and are crucial, along with U.S. drones and satellites,
to de-conflicting friendly aircraft and detecting threats. Iran appears to have targeted the planes precisely, where they sat, uncovered at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. Also, the official confirms that the number of wounded service members has grown since the initial reports, including several injuries described as serious. Quillorance and PR News. "Fedir to Rome pals says it's important to closely monitor the spike in energy prices
“brought on by the Iran War." You have to carefully monitor inflation expectations, because”
you can have a series of these supply shocks, and that can lead the public, generally, businesses, price setters, households, lead them to start expecting higher inflation over time. Why wouldn't they? At the end of a certain number of years, the inflation is now just higher, and that can happen. So, you monitor that very, very carefully. I'll spoke Monday to students at Harvard University saying higher energy prices have not yet created
a hard choice for the Fed. He said the Fed can wait and see how the War effects inflation, the Iran War, now in its fifth week as the average price for gasoline years, $4 a gallon. Lawyers for the Justice Department whistleblower, warning about what they call a failure to investigate his claims. In PR's Kerry Johnson reports on a new letter to Congress about the issue.
“Error's Revenue helped oversee major lawsuits over President Trump's immigration policy last year,”
but he was put on leave and then fired nearly a year ago after he raised concerns that top Justice Department officials were telling lawyers to ignore or mislead federal courts. Revenue's lawyers say 15 months have passed since he blew the whistle, but there's no sign the Inspector General at the DOJ launched a serious investigation, and they cited correspondent showing the IG had closed the matter. They say it's part of
her broader abdication of responsibility at the Justice Department. DOJ says Revenue is quote "desperate for relevancy and there's no legitimate basis to investigate." Kerry Johnson and PR news Washington. This is in PR news. Colorado's Department of Transportation is requesting millions of dollars in unspense, no-plow funds to prepare state roads for wildfire season,
and move into 90 reports. Up to $12 million of snow contingency funds could be used to
clear fuels along roads, but officials caution they'll need more to handle the season ahead. Bob Fyfer is the deputy director of operations for the Colorado Department of Transportation. He says this is the first time they've been able to request these funds due to the record lack of snowfall. We've actually hit our peak snowpack about two weeks ago, which means that's the most snow our our mountains will see, which was not very much. In fact, most of our
mountains are really down to dirt. The National Interagency Fire Center says parts of interstate 70 and the western slope are expected to be at a above average risk for significant fires. For MPR news, I'm Emma Vanden 90 in Denver, Colorado. Chicago bulls have waived guard Jaden Ivy, the bull's decision came after Ivy posted a series of videos on his Instagram account in which he criticized the MBA for celebrating Pride Month, expressing his disapproval from
a religious perspective. Team officials say Ivy's comments do not reflect the values of the organization. The bull's are quiet Ivy in a trade early last month, but he appeared in just four gains before he was sideline to two left knee issues. Financial markets in Asia mostly lower in Tuesday trading shares in South Korea down more than 3% Tokyo's Benchmark knee K down eight tens of a percent. U.S. futures have turned higher, following a mix finished for Wall Street on
Monday. I'm Joel Snyder, MPR News.
