"Live from NPR News and Washington," on Corva Coleman, President Trump says h...
a news conference today in the Oval Office with military officials.
“He also wrote online yesterday using profane language that we cannot repeat on the air”
to threaten Iran. He's demanding that Tehran immediately reopened the Strait of Hormos to shipping traffic. It is addressed last week, Trump said that European allies should do that. Iran has hit petrol chemical plants in three Persian Gulf countries, and vital infrastructure, and beer's Ayabatroe reports.
Iran launched counterstrikes over the weekend on petrol chemical plants in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait, sparking fires in all three, according to their official statements. Iran says these plants produced fuel and products used by the U.S. military. This comes after Israel said it had bombed Iran's petrol chemical industry and disabled
their operations. Iran also targeted what it says is in Israeli refinery in Haifa supplying fuel to Israeli fighter jets. Meanwhile, a telecom building and a port were targeted in the UAE.
“That port is vital for food imports as its main port in Dubai remains inaccessible.”
Kuwait, though, was the hardest hit over the weekend. It says Iran attacked oil facilities, a government building, and two power and water desalination plants knocking out power generation units. Ayabatroe and Pair News, Dubai. Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, visited Syria over the weekend, and Pair's
Joanna Kikis's reports, Zelensky's visit comes as he recently signed security agreements with Persian Gulf nations. Writing on social media, Zelensky said he and Syrian President Ahmed Al-Shara discussed security and defense issues, as well as energy cooperation. Zelensky added that Ukraine is, quote, "building new opportunities."
He was in Turkey on Saturday, and had traveled several Gulf nations last week. Gulf states have been hit by Iranian Shahid drones in retaliation for the U.S. as rarely war on Iran. Russia attacks Ukrainian cities with hundreds of Shahids a day, and Ukraine's military has learned how to intercept them.
“Zelensky is offering to trade this anti-dronic expertise for systems that shoot down Russian”
ballistic missiles. The crew aboard the Artemis mission is getting ready to fly around the dark side of the moon. The astronauts will be out of touch with Earth for about an hour, as they do the fly by.
Dr. Lori Glaz is with NASA's Exploration Systems Development Program. She says the astronauts may be able to see things on the moon's surface that satellites cannot. So we're really excited to fly by and get to take these observations, particularly having humans on board really compliments the robotic exploration that goes on from NASA.
The astronauts are about to set a distance record.
They will be the first humans to fly this far away from the Earth, more than a quarter
million miles from home. You're listening to NPR. Workers at one of the biggest meat-packing plants in the U.S. are suspending their three-week striking Colorado north of Denver. Thousands of unionized workers say plant, owner, JBS, USA has agreed to resume contract talks.
The union representing movie and TV writers says it has reached a tentative contract deal with Hollywood Studios. The last time the writer's guild of America had contract talks in 2023, members went on strike for months. Hollywood played host to big family crowds over the holiday weekend, and fear's Bob
Mondello has details.
Magic Tell Mary is still packing them in with a blockbuster worthy $30 million and it's
third weekend. Done's up. Nope. That's thumbs down. You need you to thumbs up.
It's close enough. Still, that's more potatoes next to the Super Mario Brothers who took a running jump start by opening Wednesday. Their galaxy movie will collect a five-day total of more than $119 million. Together they pushed 2026 to the best start of any year since the pandemic, and if block
busters inspire people to come back to the movies that boats well for the next few
weeks, openings, which include Mortal Kombat 2, a Michael Jackson biopic, and the first Star Wars
movie in seven years, Bob Mondello and PR News. UCLA has won its first national championship in women's college basketball. The Bruins, Shalak, South Carolina yesterday, 79 to 51. Meanwhile tonight is the men's NCAA title basketball game, Michigan is going to face Yukon.
I'm Corva Coleman and PR News in Washington.
