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its first winning weeks since the start of the Iran war. All three major indexes, not
“to weekly gains, but trading has been volatile and during his prime time speech Wednesday”
night President Trump offered no clear timeline for ending the war in Paris, Maria Aspen. Now we're seeing investors swinging from fear that the war is going to drag on from months or more to hope that President Trump is going to end the war soon, and then back again to fear, especially after Trump's speech last night. This all matters to Wall Street mostly because of oil. The war has already created a global energy crisis, as we know, which
means higher gas and diesel prices, and if it continues much longer, everything's going to get more expensive.
MPR's Maria Aspen reporting the conservative youth organization, turning point USA, kicked
off a multi-state campus tour Thursday, nearly seven months after the group's founder Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed while speaking with students at an event in Utah.
“MPR's Elena Moore reports his first event in Washington, D.C., comes as supporters wrestle”
with what a post-curric turning point looks like. Charlie Kirk was known for his political debates with students on college campuses around the country, but that wasn't the format of turning points latest event at the George Washington University, where Kirk's widow and the group's new CEO, Erica Kirk spoke with White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. The two discussed Levitt's career and
her Christian faith, and took just a few questions from the audience. It left 21-year-old Marine, at least Nizbit, disappointed. "We're friends that are broad right now, in the active work, and we're having juvenile conversation."
The second stop on turning points tour is set for later this month in Georgia, where Erica
Kirk will be joined by Vice President J.D. Vance, Elena Moore and Pierre News.
“"The key agency has approved President Trump's plan to build a 90,000 square foot ball”
room where the White House's East Wing one stood, but Imperial Frank Langford reports a federal judge says a plan still needs approval from Congress." William Sharf, chair of the National Capital Planning Commission, said opposition to changing the White House complex is nothing new. "Practically, every change, every modification, every addition, and indeed every feature
that we now celebrate as an iconic aspect of the White House was roundly and viciously condemned in its day." Commissioner Phil Mendelssohn agreed the White House needs a ballroom, but opposed the plan. "I'm trying to be nice here. It's just too large. It's just too large." In fact, the ballroom would be more than one-and-a-half times larger than the White House residents,
a judge ruled last week that Trump has no authority to build the ballroom. The administration is appealing. Frank Langford and Pierre News, Washington. "And this is MPR News. President Trump says Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch will lead the Justice Department for the Time being Trump named Blanch acting Attorney General after alsting Pam Bondi Thursday. Bondi's Alster follows months of scrutiny over the Justice
Department's handling of the Epstein files and her handling of cases against President Trump's perceived political enemies. "Fin of a snake bites kill more than 130,000 people each year and sick and hundreds of millions more. A new research suggests that number could rise because of climate change." St. Pierre's Jonathan Lambert reports. Snake bites usually arise when there's a conflict
between how people and snakes are using an environment where they coexist, but scientists knowledge of precisely where snakes and people coexist was patchy. Researchers analyzed reams of data from scientific papers to museum records to create a detailed map of over 500 venomous species. Right now, overlap between dangerous snakes and people is highest across parts of sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. But the researchers found
that climate change could expand that overlap. Parts of Eastern North America, China, Europe, and elsewhere could become more habitable for some venomous snakes, which in turn could mean more snake bites. The study appears in plots neglected tropical diseases. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. "That's as Artemis two mission with its crew of four astronauts now bound for the moon.
The Orion spacecraft left Earth orbit Thursday putting the astronauts on track for a lunar fly by early next week. I'm Giles Snyder, NPR News."
