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The Pentagon says the cost of the war with Iran so far is $25 billion.
“NPR's Quilore and Supports Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsef testified today on Capitol”
Hill. Hegsef was defending the administration's proposed $1.45 trillion defense budget with a focus on rebuilding U.S. military industry, but it's the first time he's appeared under oath since the Iran war started. And Democrat Adam Smith asked why President Trump ordered the attack after claiming to have destroyed
Iran's nuclear weapons program last year. "Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated, underground they're buried, and we'll watch you. We'll watch you. We had to start this war.
You just said, 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat.
Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated. We had not given up their nuclear ambitions." Hegsef said the biggest adversaries are Democrats and some Republicans who are criticizing the war. Quilore and Sampere News.
“The Federal Reserve has voted to hold interest rates steady as the war with Iran continues”
to drive up energy prices. The rate-setting meeting was likely the last one that Jerome Powell will preside over as Fed Chairman. This morning, the Senate Banking Committee endorsed President Trump's nominee, Kevin Worsh to take over his head of the Central Bank when Powell's term expires next month.
Former FBI director James Komi made a brief court appearance today in the Washington DC area after he was indicted in North Carolina on charges that he made an online threat on President Trump's life. The Justice Department is homing in on Komi's social media post last year involving seashells arranged in the numbers 86-47 as the DOJ describes it 86 is slag for rejecting or eliminating
in 47 a reference to Trump as the 47th president. Komi says he did not know the image could be interpreted as a call to violence. British authorities are investigating an attack on the streets of London today as an act of terrorism and PR's Lauren Freyer reports local police say two Jewish men were stabbed.
“Video shows police tackling a man and tazering him, a Jewish security group says the suspect”
was running along Golder's Green Road trying to stab Jewish people. Witnesses say one of the victims was stabbed outside a shop and another nearest synagogue. Police say he tried to stab officers too. Prime Minister Kier-Starmer interrupted Parliament to say this attack. "It is deeply concerning to everyone in this house."
And social media he called it anti-Semitic and utterly appalling. This incident follows arson attacks in recent weeks on a Jewish ambulance charity in a synagogue counter terrorism officials have said they're investigating whether Iranian proxies could be responsible. Lauren Freyer and PR News London.
This is NPR. The British monarchs on a state visit to the United States. Today King Charles III and Queen Camilla paid their respects the national 9/11 memorial in New York City. They were accompanied by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg who was elected less than two months
after the terrorist attacks and chairs the board of the 9/11 memorial in museum. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to testify in Capitol Hill next month. About the role she played, and how the Justice Department handled files related to the lake and victed sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She slated testify before the house oversight committee made 29th.
Climadaction is bringing together officials from dozens of countries for an international conference in Colombia and appears to be a Simon reports exam in efforts by governments to move away from the use of fossil fuels. For 30 years, countries have come together for United Nation climate conferences, but fossil fuel producers such as Saudi Arabia have historically held up conversations about transitioning
away from oil, gas, and coal. Using fossil fuels is the single biggest driver of climate change. This conference is explicitly dedicated to figuring out how to make the transition to technologies like renewable energy and batteries happen. The energy crisis brought on by the war in Iran gives even more motivation some participants
tell NPR. The 55 countries here include oil and gas producers like Canada, Australia, and Nigeria. The world's largest oil and gas producer, the US, is not here. Police, I'm in Pierre News, Santa Marta, Colombia. This is NPR.
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