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Pentagon chief Pete Heggseth says the U.S. scored a decisive military victory over Iran,
“but he did not say how several key issues would be settled, like the reopening of the”
state of Hormuz, as NPR's Greg Mayri reports. Defense Secretary Heggseth, speaking at a Pentagon news conference, said the U.S. achieved all its military objectives. Less than six weeks, clear mission, decisive action, overwhelming fire power. Heggseth was asked what the military would do during the two weeks ceasefire now in place.
"We'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere. We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire." But several key issues will have to be negotiated, such as the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran still controls, and the fate of Iran's nuclear program, which still includes Hylian rich uranium. Greg Mayri, NPR News, Washington.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will force a war powers vote to put Republicans on the record over the U.S. and Iran conflict, NPR's Claudia Greisales reports. Democrats started forcing the Senate votes to limit President Trump's war powers before they left for a two-week recess.
“Now, Democratic leader Schumer says they'll try again when Congress returns next week.”
Congress must reassert its authority, especially at this dangerous moment. No President, Democrat or Republican, should take this country to war alone. Schumer argued the conflict was a "colossal failure" that has made global conditions worse for the U.S. and its allies. Democrats need to build support on the GOP side only one Senate Republican. Kentucky's Rand Paul has supported past attempts to limit Trump's military
actions in Iran. Stocks surged an oil prices dropped after the ceasefire, but his NPR's Raphael Nom reports there's still some caution about what might happen next. Both U.S. crude futures and Brent, the global benchmark for oil, fell sharply, while all three major stock indexes rallied.
But this has been an unpredictable conflict.
For investors, the critical aspect will be whether ships finally start sailing through the
state of Hormuz, but even if the state is reopened and a long-term ceasefire is achieved,
“investors are mindful that it will take some time for the global energy market to recover.”
And the effects in the global economy will likely linger. Gas prices in the U.S. for example are already pushing up inflation. And they may not come down significantly anytime soon. Not until there's more certainty, Raphael Nom, NPR News. President Trump met with NATO's Secretary-General Mark Rota today in a social media post
tonight Trump said in all caps, quote, "NATO wasn't there when we needed them and they won't be there if we need them again." Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO allies for not joining the war on Iran and has threatened to leave the alliance. This is NPR News from Washington.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is defending his decision to repeal the legal determination that was the basis for federal rules to slow climate change. He told a group of climate change skeptics today that the repeal of the indangement finding reversed decades of what he called "unthinking adherence to environmentalists' worries." The former Republican congressman is widely believed to be under consideration to be a
attorney general. Mobile home parks are the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the U.S., but
they don't always stay affordable.
When a park sells, residents can be kicked out, Natalie Scolund reports on how one Colorado community is protecting their mobile homes. In 2022, a mobile home park in Durango, Colorado, went up for sale, a notoriously predatory corporation offered $5.5 million in cash for the lot. Park residents raised money to try to match or beat the offer and they partnered with a community
land trust. We were different points in our lives and our careers and our families, and yet we all were exactly on the same page at this moment. That's Stephanie Fanty of the non-profit elevation community land trust. She worked with residents to buy out the park.
Now, the land trust is the landlord. It manages the park for the benefit of residents. Ren PR, I'm Natalie Scolund. On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run and a game against the LA Dodgers breaking Babe Ruth's record that it stood for 39 years.
Aaron would go on to hit 755 career home runs only to be surpassed by Barry Bonds in 2007. It's NPR. You know, I heard this really interesting thing on an economic spotcast the other day. Oh, well, that actually reminds me of something I read the other day in an economics book. Yeah, I read it in the Planet of Honeybook.
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