Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, a close ally of both President Trump and Russian President
“Putin, has lost his reelection bid to opposition leader Peter Maggar, ending his 16 years”
in power. Today, Maggar greeted cheering crowds along the Tiss of River in Budapest. He is a former Orban loyalist who campaigned against corruption and on everyday issues like health care and public transportation, and he pledged to rebuild Hungary's relationship with the European Union and NATO.
Those are ties that parade under Orban, and European leaders quickly congratulated Maggar. Last week, Vice President Vance visited Hungary campaigning for Orban. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crossed the border into Lebanon today, visiting his Israeli troops who've invaded the country. Israeli air strikes continued to target Hezbollah militants there, but Lebanese authorities
say a red cross-paramedic was among at least 35 people killed today. And here's Lauren Freyer has more from Beirut. Israeli air strikes hit the Mediterranean resort city of Tire and border villages Israel says it's seizing from Lebanon, to create what it calls a buffer zone where Hezbollah campfire rockets.
The Lebanese red cross says one of its ambulance teams was directly targeted by an Israeli drone, killing one paramedic and wounding another. UN peacekeepers saying Israeli tank rammed their vehicles and Israeli troops fired warning shots that hit three feet from personnel. Netanyahu and his defense minister Israel Katz both joined invading troops inside Lebanon.
Katz said his goal is to disarm his bullet and remove houses so that they can't become quote terror outposts. NASA's nearly 40,000 homes have been destroyed or heavily damaged in the past 35 days. Lauren Freyer and PR News pay route.
“President Trump says the U.S. Navy will begin a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key”
waterway near Iran. Send com says it starts tomorrow. If your show Hernandez reports this after peace talks with Iran in Pakistan this weekend failed. In a post on social media president Trump accused Iran of extortion and said the U.S.
blockade would prevent any vessels from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump made the announcement after a U.S. delegation led by Vice President J. Defense failed to reach a deal with Iran to end the war. Trump said in an interview on Fox News that the negotiations had broken down because of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
"They want to have nuclear weapons and I can have nuclear weapons.
I've been saying that for 30 years I would never allow that to happen before I was in politics
and that country will not have nuclear weapons."
“Iran has repeatedly insisted that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes, Joe Hernandez and PR News.”
"You're listening to NPR News from Washington." President Trump tells Fox News that the price of oil and gas could be even higher by the midterm elections in November. And gas bodies Patrick DeHan says it's likely gas prices could continue to climb and that it will be tough for people already paying more to fill up their cars.
"It's not impossible that while we have seen a slight dip over the last week that we certainly couldn't see gas prices re-accelerating and it's not impossible that new records with prices eventually rising above $5 a gallon remain possible." Dr. Belay says the average price of a gallon of regular gas is $4 in 12 cents today.
The federal government has awarded $50 million for EMS agencies around the country
to expand pre-hospital blood transfusion programs. The practice is considered a life-saver for trauma patients. From Connecticut Public Radio, Chris Polansky has more. "Parametic field supervisor T. Olson with the ambulance company AMR Hartford says getting blood into trauma patients in the field rather than waiting until they reach the hospital
has been a game changer." "You give it and within a minute to two minutes like they wake back up their vital start stabilizing, you see the color return to their skin." "The money from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or Nitsa is going everywhere from rural Oregon to Tampa, Florida. Nitsa says roughly 2% of the nation's 15,000 EMS agencies
have pre-hospital blood programs now, but they're hoping to grow that number rapidly. For NPR News, I'm Chris Polansky and Hartford, Connecticut." "You as future's contracts are trading lower at this hour, the Dow futures are down just over 1%. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington." "This week on Sources and Methods a messy truce with Iran which remains in control of the
state of Hormuz." "They feel emboldened. This war that started with a call to replace the regime. Well, one humanae was replaced by another humanae." "The road ahead in Iran. This week on Sources and Methods, the National Security Podcast from NPR. You can listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
