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Fox Business News the war in Iran was very close to over, but as NPR's Tamar Keith tells us, the official line from the White House press podium is somewhat different. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox Business Network, Trump talked about the war with Iran in the past tense. Is this war over?
“I think it's close to over here, I mean, I view it as very close to over.”
At her briefing press secretary Caroline Levitt battered down the idea that the U.S. had formally requested an extension of the two-week ceasefire. She said, quote, "That is not true at this moment," adding that the U.S. also hadn't agreed to further in-person peace talks. Those discussions are being had, but nothing is official until you hear it from us here
at the White House. She said, "The White House feels good about the prospects of a deal," Tamar Keith and PR News. "Jet fuel prices have roughly doubled since the start of the war in Iran. That's a much sharper increase than gasoline has experienced."
As NPR's Camilla Domenoski reports, fuel for airplanes is affected by the partial closure of the straight-of-four moves in two different ways. Refineries in the Persian Gulf can't get their finished jet fuel out, and refineries in Asia can't get crude from the Middle East.
“The raw material, so they can make jet fuel.”
The world's top three jet fuel exporters are basically out of action.
China, South Korea, and Kuwait. Even if the straight reopened now, prices would stay inflated. "It is not as simple as turning on the spicket. Outside your house, turn on the garden, nose." That's David Riceard, with the commodities intelligence group Argus.
He says it takes time to bring production back online and ship fuel worldwide. Camilla Domenoski. The sheriff's first-time homebuyers has fallen to another record low, and PR's Jennifer Ludden reports they made up just 21% of all recent buyers. At a time when many are priced out of the market.
Boomers remain the largest share of homebuyers overall, often using equity from an existing house to move to another. That's according to a new report by the National Association of Realtors. Homebuying by millennials fell in the past year, though some older millennial buyers are trading up, and that group has the highest median household income of any generation.
The Realtors' report finds the youngest adults, Gen Z, now make up a tiny sliver of homeowners
4% and more than a third of those buyers or single females.
Overall, the housing market remains stuck with high prices and high mortgage rates keeping many unable to buy, and many current owners feeling unable to move. Jennifer Ludden and peer news, Washington. Wall Street, the S&P 500, closed at its highest ever gaining 55 points, ending the day at 722, the Dow down 72, NASDAQ up 376, this is NPR.
Scientists from all over the world are warning about drug-resistant fungi, as NPR's Gabrielle Emmanuel reports they say medicine is focusing on addressing drug-resistant bacteria and viruses and ignoring fungi. For those with weakened immune systems and infections from fungi such as yeast infections can be severe, these fungi have become more resistant because fungi use to protect crops,
closely resemble anti-fungled drugs used in medical settings. Hall of Verwei is at the Broadbout University Medical Center in the Netherlands and leads the group. He says it's hard to develop new anti-fungled medications. The main challenge is that fungi, if you look at the cell structure, how they are built
up, it's very similar to the human cell. It's quite difficult to find the drug, which kills the fungus, but does not harm the human cell. Later this year, the World Health Organization is coming out with a new action plan on antimicrobial resistance.
Verwei is hoping fungi will be included. His team's call to action appears in Nature Medicine. Gabrielle Emmanuel and PR News. Life in some of New York's apartment buildings could get a little less luxurious in the coming days pending the outcome of a vote by the Union representing thousands of the
city's apartment building door-person superintendents and other workers. Contract talks between building owners and the workers union have hit a roadblock over health care, pensions, and other issues. Without a deal, a strike could start as soon as next Monday, it would affect about one
and a half million city renters, co-op owners and condo dwellers.
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