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Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth is facing another day explaining why he believes the U.S. is winning the war with Iran.
“Day after House Labor lawmakers questioned him, members of the U.S. Senate have their”
first opportunity now to praise him or, like Democratic Senator Kirsten Jill Brand, criticized
the decision to go to war at all. Well, is a defined mission set that we have had great success in pursuing against the determined enemy who seeks nuclear weapons, and I'm proud of the opportunity to remind the U.S. to make it because the U.S. will not be going that far. You don't care when the American people, and the American people are quite smart.
They understand and see through spin. They know that a regime that says death to America that seeks nuclear weapons and the ability to live a -- the Trump administration is seeking a $1.5 trillion military budget for 2027. Early morning trading saw global oil prices spike as high as $126 a barrel over fears
of an escalation in the U.S. Iran standoff in the straight of Hormuz.
In the U.S., AAA finds the average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline has risen
“to $4.30, and pierced even Bassaha has reaction from customers.”
The cost to fill up her silver rado and Birmingham, Alabama, makes Mary Kaiser, no. "I don't feel anything at all. I'm just disappointed." Chris Covey's visiting family and says gas has not affected his driving. Yes.
The place where I'm starting to notice it is the price of groceries because a lot of things are trucked into where I live in Arizona. Gas prices started dropping about two weeks ago with hopes these straight-of-wall moves would reopen. What a ex-ideas with AAA says with no clear end to the war in sight, prices are climbing
back up. It's so volatile, and it really just depends on what's happening to you politically, and that can change by the day. Overall, gas prices are up about 44% since the war began more than two months ago. Steven Bassaha and PR news.
A peace summit in Tel Aviv today brought together more than 80 peace-building and shared society organizations, fighting to change the trajectory of Israel's future. PR's Eleanor Beardsleaf has more. Charlie Hoste represents an Israeli language school offering a different way of teaching.
“We think it's important to teach people language through the reality that's happening here.”
So people are able to use Arabic and use Hebrew as a tool to make a positive change to talk about injustice and things that you don't typically learn the language for in a standard language school. Hoste says there's very little tolerance in Israeli society today for talk of peace between Jews and Arabs, or for even something as basic as being a language school that offers
Hebrew and Arabic together, Eleanor Beardsleaf and PR news, Tel Aviv. This is NPR News. Mexican President Claudia Schembaum is issuing a blunt warning today against foreign government interference. After the U.S. requested arrest warrants for 10 Mexican current and former officials,
so they can stand trial in New York on drug trafficking charges. Schembaum says her own country's prosecutors are investigating the allegations to determine if there's a legal basis for extradition of the U.S. The U.S. level drug crime allegations against former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maloudo, who along with his wife is now being detained in New York, they were arrested in January.
The Food and Drug Administration says it's trying to shorten the timeline for getting new drugs on the market. It's launching a program to look at study data at, as it's being collected, here's NPR said New Lupkin. The FDA is taking a new approach to some clinical trials for new drugs, FDA Commissioner
Marty McCary explained it like this. So when a patient and a clinical trial develops a fever, or is hospitalized, or a tumor shrinks, the FDA regulators can see in the cloud in real-time exactly what's happening. The agency is working with the drug companies, Amgen, and AstraZeneca on early stage drug trials for lung cancer and lymphoma, and it's working with the University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center and the University of Pennsylvania. The FDA says it's aiming to save time without cutting corners on safety and hopes to expand the pilot this summer. We lovekin and peer news, I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News.
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