"Li from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The U.S. Central Command says it will begin a blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas
starting in six hours.
“President Trump ordered the blockade after peace talks collapsed this weekend in Pakistan."”
A run effectively closed down the straight of Hormuz, this 21-mile-wide waterway, and very few ships have been going in or out of the Gulf in recent weeks. It was more than 100 ships a day before the war, now it's just a handful. The straight was supposed to reopen when the ceasefire was announced last Wednesday, but that hasn't happened.
We're still seeing just a trickle of traffic, usually three, four, five ships a day. It was 12 on Saturday, which is the highest day in recent weeks or so, according to the ship tracking firm Kepler." "NPR's Greg Myri also says ships traveling between non-ironian ports will still be allowed to transit the straight during the blockade.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crossed the border into Lebanon's Sunday to visit Israeli troops who have invaded that country. Israeli air strikes continued to target his beloved militants there, and P.R.s. Lauren Freyer reports from bay routes.
“"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 his bullet can't fire rockets." The Lebanese red cross says one of its ambulance teams was directly targeted by an Israeli drone. Following one paramedic and wounding another, UN peacekeepers saying Israeli tank ramped
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 "terror outposts." Lebanon says nearly 40,000 homes have been destroyed or heavily damaged in the past 35 days.
Foreign fryer and PR news be rude. "It's earnings season for the country's biggest banks on Wall Street and PR's Maria Aspen has our story."
“Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and other big banks will report results from the last three”
months. Giving investors a window into the economic fallout from the war in Iran and the resulting energy crisis. Surgeon oil prices have pushed up costs for both companies and consumers, and banks like JP Morgan do business with both.
This due to report earnings days after Delta, the country's largest airline, reported
its first quarterly loss in nearly three years, due to the soaring cost of jet fuel.
The airline is raising prices and cutting flights, but said customers are still buying tickets. Investors will get a lot of big business updates this week. Net flakes and Pepsi are among the other companies reporting earnings. Maria Aspen and PR news. Oil prices are moving up again while Asian stock markets mostly dropped in trading on Monday.
markets were down in Japan, Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. You're listening to NPR news. Democratic representatives, Eric Smallwell, says he's suspending his campaign for Governor of California. Smallwell is facing allegations of sexual assault involving several former staffers.
He says the allegations are false. The claims are made public in a newspaper article on Friday. Public health officials across the U.S. are warning that the street drug supply is growing more toxic, officials say gangs and dealers are adding a growing mix of industrial chemicals to those drugs, and PR's Brian Man reports.
Fatal street drug overdoses have been plummeting, reaching their lowest levels in more than half a decade, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But street drug experts like Ed Sisko with the National Institute of Standards and Technology worry a new wave of synthetic chemicals being added to street drugs is heightening the danger again.
And some month or once every other month, we're encountering something that we've never
seen before and we haven't seen indications of it being seen in the United States before either. Officials have issued warnings about a danger of sedative called metatomidine that's causing heart ailments in people who use street drugs and a synthetic opioid more powerful than fentanyl called cyclophone linked to recent overdose deaths in South Carolina and Tennessee.
Brian Man and PR news. The U.S. military says it blew up two boats this weekend that it says we're smuggling drugs in the Eastern Pacific, the attacks are part of the Trump administration's campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. Officials say five people were killed in the attack and one person did survive that brings
the total number of people killed in those strikes to at least 168. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
