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this morning that's been sought by President Trump's ally, right, wing activist Steve
Bannon.
“The court's order could lead to a dismissal of Bannon's contempt of Congress conviction.”
He had refused to talk to the House Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters. Bannon did spend four months in prison for failing to respond to the committee's subpoena, and the Trump administration are still trying to have the case thrown out. The U.S. Supreme Court's action has now paved the way for a lower court to do that.
President Trump hold a news conference today at the White House about the war in Iran. He has said a deadline of tomorrow night for Tehran to reopen the straight of Hormuz to shipping.
And beer's carry con says Iran continues to fire on Israel and other Persian Gulf nations.
Kuwait has been hit hard this morning as well as the UAE, both countries report intercepting multiple missiles from Iran. And there's much concern in the Gulf that if Iran does escalate attacks there, its air defense
“systems may be unable to handle that increased fire.”
And in terms of any diplomatic actions on the horizon officials across the region from Oman, Turkey, Pakistan and Egypt say they are exploring all avenues, and beer's carry con reporting. Stocks opened higher this morning as the price of gasoline continues to climb. And beer's got horsesley reports, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 80 points in early trading.
Triple A says the average price of gasoline nationwide is now around $4.12 a gallon. Pump prices have jumped sharply in the last five weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran. OPEC and its allies said over the weekend they would boost oil production, but the move has little practical effect, so long as Iran continues to choke off most shipping traffic
through the straight of Hormuz. Japan and South Korea are exploring alternate shipping routes for oil, stock indexes in the two countries rose overnight while trading was closed in Hong Kong and Shanghai for a holiday. Workers at a giant meat-backing plant in Greeley, Colorado are halting their three-week-old strike and resuming contract negotiations.
It's got horsesley and piranha is washing time. The Department of Homeland Security remains partially shut down, Congress has not yet passed a spending bill. Now, Congress is on recess for the holidays. House Speaker, rather House Democratic Leader, how came Jeffries, is urging Speaker Mike
Johnson to recall his chamber and vote on a DHS funding bill. Jeffries says the Senate has passed by partisan bill twice. Every single Democrat, every single Republican in the Senate, supports that legislation, House Democrats support that legislation, so we can reopen every other aspect of the Department of Homeland Security, including TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA and our cybersecurity professionals
while continuing to work on the effort to get ice under control. You're listening to NPR. States are making decisions about how they will spend the first round of grants from a $50 billion fund. It is meant to help rural health care survive major cuts to Medicaid.
In more than two dozen states, there are plans to, what's called, right-size, rural health hospitals. But Montana Public Radio's Aaron Bolton reports the states could face the prospect of cutting services instead of saving them. Big Sandy Medical Center in North Central Montana serves its namesake town of about
800. Former CEO Ron Weene's says the hospital struggles to make payroll each month.
He had hoped Montana would spend some of its expected $1.2 billion from the rural health
transformation fund to financially stabilize facilities like his. But the state wants hospitals to admit fewer patients and to instead offer more outpatient care. In some cases, the state might ask hospitals to simply cut services.
“That's what has all the hospitals and pins and needles.”
Hospital Administrators say that would be a detriment to small communities for NPR News. I'm Aaron Bolton and Columbia Falls, Montana. The Artemis crew will start its fly by of the moon later today. The astronauts will fly around the dark side of the moon. They'll take photographs and observations of the lunar surface that satellites have not been
able to see the astronauts will also be out of contact with Earth for about an hour. That's when they are behind the moon. I'm Corva Coleman and PR News.
