"Line from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
The U.S. military is imposing a blockade on Iranian ports in the state of Hormuz, a day after
“ceasefire talks between Washington and the Iran, failed to produce a breakthrough.”
The price of Brent Crout is again hovering around $100 a barrel, and PR's Greg Myripe has the latest. The U.S. Navy has a substantial presence in the region, and President Trump says it won't take long for the U.S. to "clean out the straight." Still, the blockade comes with risks.
Iran is believed to have placed mines in the waterway. Also, Iran says that if any of its ports are attacked, it will respond by attacking ports belonging to Arab Gulf countries. Iran has effectively closed the waterway for the past several weeks, aside from a small number of friendly or neutral commercial ships it allows through.
It's not clear if any of those ships will attempt to challenge the U.S. blockade.
With myripe, MPR News, Washington. President Trump says he does not owe Pope Leo and Apology for chiding the pontiffs opposition to war in Iran.
“We believe strongly in law and order, and he seems to have a problem with that, so there's”
nothing to apologize for. He's wrong. The other thing is he didn't like what we're doing with respect to Iran, but Iran is a, once to be a nuclear nation, so they can exterminate the world, not going to happen. Trump's speaking hours after Pope Leo told reporters at the start of a trip to Africa
that he is not afraid of the Trump administration and will continue to spread the message of the Bible. "I don't think the message to the Gospels meant it to be abused in the way that some people are doing." After criticizing the Pope, President Trump shared an AI-generated image on social media
that "appeared to depict him as Jesus," the President later said he thought it was him as a doctor. The post sparked backlash and was quickly deleted. Hungry's election winner, Peter Magyar, who ended Prime Minister Victor Orban's 16-year
“rule, is vowing to read the democratize his country and restore its institutions.”
Here's S. M. Nicholson. Speaking to journalists, the day after winning a landslide, victory 45-year-old Peter Magyar said after years of strained relations with Brussels, Hungary will return to being fully anchored in Europe. Magyar, a center-right politician and former member of the outgoing Prime Minister Victor Orban's
fides party, has the constitutional majority in Parliament to allow him to restore Hungary's institutions and unlock billions in European Union funding. Among the checks and balances he plans to reintroduce is a limit on the number of terms somebody can serve as Prime Minister to two terms. In apparent reference to his predecessor, Magyar stressed to report is that he was not here
to get rich or to rule forever. For MPI News, I'm Asmin Nicholson in Budapest. U.S. talks have ended the day higher with a Dow closing up more than 300 points. It's NPR News. The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation to sexual misconduct allegations against
congressman Eric Swallwell, last night the Democrat withdrew from the Gubernatorial Racing California. The strongest storm on the planet is threatening U.S. territories in the Pacific. The National Weather Service says super typhoon St. Laku is moving north-west toward the Marianas with top-to-state winds of 175 miles per hour.
Ireland's government has announced tax cuts on vehicle fuel after nearly a week of protests over rising fuel costs, which have disrupted travel across the country, and PR's Fatima Alcassab reports. For nearly a week, slow-moving convoys of trucks and tractors have brought parts of Ireland to a standstill, blocking major roads and access to fuel depots, as protesters demanded
more government support with rising fuel prices brought on by the U.S. and Israel's war in Iran.
Now, the Irish t-shirt, or Prime Minister, has announced more than $500 million in tax cuts
on petrol, diesel, and gas oil to help those hit hardest by the rising costs. This opposition-party shin-fain says it will bring a motion of no confidence in the government's handling of the crisis. Hundreds of fuel stations around the country remain without petrol or diesel as a result of the protests.
Fatima Alcassab and Bionneus London. Today, Fatua, the world's oldest guerrilla, is celebrating her 69th birthday, give-or-take-a-couple years. However, no birthday cake at the Berlin Zoo, which is watching Fatua's sugar intake. I'm Lakshmi Singh and P.R. News, in Washington.
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