Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, Defense Secretary Pete Heggsess as the U.
remains at the ready if a piece deal with Iran is not reached.
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“On your critical dual use infrastructure, on your remaining power generation and on your”
energy industry. We'd rather not have to do it, but we're ready to go at the command of our president and at the push of a button. Excess, speaking Thursday alongside Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, General Dan Cain, at a Pentagon press briefing.
His remarks came on the same day, President Trump announced a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, which is raised hopes were an end to the war in Iran. Trump said the next meeting between the U.S. and Iran may take place this weekend. Federal panel voted to move ahead with President Trump's plans to build a 250-foot victory
arch on the National Mall in Piers and Estosia Siyoka's reports that the proposed
monument would be the largest victory arch in the world. The Commission of Fine Arts is a seven-member body whose ranks are composed of Trump appointees. The lead designer on the project, Nicholas Chabano, noted the arch would stand 250 feet high to mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
With built to the proposed height, it will tower over Arlington National Cemetery and obstructs sightlines to the Lincoln Memorial. The committee has asked for some tweaks to the submitted design. One suggestion was to replace proposed statues of lions adorning the arch's base with eagles as animals native to North America.
The proposed DC arch would be the biggest structure of its kind in the world.
For example, it would dwarf the arch to Trump and Paris, which stands at only 154 feet,
an Estosia Siyoka's and Peronus. In 85-year-old French widow of a U.S. veteran is still being held in a federal detention center in Louisiana after ICE agents arrested her from the home she'd shared with her husband and Aniston Alabama. Reporter Melanie Peoples has more.
Anita as Rosma A has been in custody for more than two weeks in Louisiana detention facility that according to her children and France is not allowing them to talk to her. The console general of the French Republic, who has an office in New Orleans, is calling for the 85-year-old to be let go immediately. Rosma A had been married to an American veteran who died in January without a will.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, Rosma A has overstayed her visa. But a probate judge in Alabama where the elderly woman was living, says the arrest stems from an inheritance dispute between the elderly woman and her husband surviving sons from his first marriage. "You're listening to MPR news.
New Jersey has elected a new member of Congress Democrat Anna Leah Mahia defeated Republican Joe Hathaway and Thursday's special election. She'll fill the seat. Mikey Cheryl vacated after she was elected governor. My case of member station WNYC reports."
Six months ago, progressive organizer Anna Leah Mahia was a relative unknown in electoral politics. Now, the daughter of immigrants is heading to Washington. Mahia addressed the crowd of supporters shortly after the associated press called her race.
"If we believe that we are at a turning point in this nation, might people do you feel it?"
“If you want to traditionally moderate New Jersey district, her far-left platform includes”
calls for abolishing ICE and clawing back present-all Trump's tax cuts for billionaires. For NPR news, I'm Mike Hayes in Mount Laurel. "Cored records show that former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was facing a court-order deadline to move out of his family's home before police say he killed his wife and then himself.
Police say officers found their bodies at the home in the DC suburb of Anna Delphogenia early Thursday. Fairfax was a rising star in the Democratic Party several years ago before his political career was to railed by sexual assault delegations. He maintained the encounters were consensual.
Stocks in Asia, lower in Friday trading shares in Tokyo, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Shanghai are down. Oil prices are also down below $100 a barrel. I'm trial Snyder, NPR news. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other
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