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President Trump today is saying the U.S. military will attack any boats putting new minds in the state of Hormuz.
“Writing online, he says the U.S. will step up its effort to clear minds already in”
the state. As NPR's Danielle Kurtzlibe reports, Trump's threat came as U.S. Iran peace talks remain in limbo." Trump and a social media post wrote he has ordered the U.S. Navy to, in his words, "Shoot and kill any boat putting minds in the waters of the state of Hormuz.
He added he is ordering U.S. mind clearing activity in the street to be tripled. The new announcements come after Trump on Tuesday extended the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely hours before it was set to expire." Iran has said it would not return to negotiations unless the United States lifted its naval blockade on Iranian ports.
The U.S. military says it has seized a tanker transporting oil away from Iran. Iran this week attacked three commercial ships in the street, seizing two of them. Danielle Kurtzlibe and NPR News the White House. Mr. Holders of Warner Brothers Discovery overwhelmingly voted this morning to merge with Paramount Skydance.
“NPR's Mandale Delbarco reports that media mogul David Ellison offered to buy Warner and”
all of his assets for $110 billion dollars.
If U.S. and international regulators approved the merger, David Ellison would get the legendary century-old movie studio, its streaming services and cable channels such as CNN and HBO. And has repeatedly promised that combined Warner Brothers and Paramount merger would release 30 films a year, while shareholders approved the deal they rejected a generous compensation proposal for Warner Brothers executives.
But that vote is non-binding, meaning the board could still give current Warner Brothers CEO David Zasloth, a golden parachute, nearly $887 million dollars. This morning in New York, filmmakers protested the mega deal saying the consolidation will lead to layoffs, less competition, and more media concentration by the Ellison family, which is friendly with President Trump.
Mandale Delbarco and PR News. Years of drought and industrial expansion have Texas 8th largest city facing a severe water crisis. The Texas Newsrooms Nina Satisha reports, city leaders in Corpus Christi, are considering
“unprecedented restrictions on water use this fall.”
Corpus Christi City Manager is proposing a 25% reduction in water use across the board. Starting in September, consumers who don't comply could face harsh penalties, which didn't sit well with city leaders. Here's Mayor Paulette Guajardo. That could result in discontinuing your water service.
That's extreme.
I could never support that to turn someone's water off.
Corpus Christi's industrial water users, which include ExxonMobile and Valero, would also be required to cut back. The proposal needs to be approved by the city council to go into effect. For NPR News, I'm Nina Satisha in Austin. This is NPR.
Early humans lived in small communities across Africa for millennia, climate influenced where they settled, along with disease, according to new research. Reporter Ari Daniel has more on the study. A team of researchers wondered whether malaria, a long-time lethal disease carried by mosquitoes may have influenced where early humans lived, so they took a set of climate models, spanning
the last 74,000 years, overlaid where mosquitoes would have lived, and compared that to where people were, based on archaeological evidence. The result was clear, as University of Cambridge Evolutionary Ecologist Andrea Manica. Basically, they were just not persisting in the areas where malaria would have been problematic. In some 15,000 years ago, when the sickle cell Anemia mutation arose, which can offer
protection against malaria, people's avoidance of the regions with the disease began to break down. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. Air quality warnings remain, in effect today, across the south eastern United States from wildfires.
Blazes have torn through Georgia this week, aided by drought conditions. The two biggest fires in southern Georgia have spread rapidly over the past two days, and destroyed more than 50 homes. The smoke is blanketing cities hundreds of miles away. The San Francisco Symphony has announced that its renowned music director, Laurieette, Michael
Tillson Thomas, has died of brain cancer. He was 81. Thomas was only 29 when he debuted with the San Francisco Symphony. He was a specialist in interpreting the music of Gustav Moller, but was also a champion of American music.
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