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appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee today after speaking to a house panel yesterday.
House lawmakers were told the U.S. has spent $25 billion on the war in Iran so far.
Main independent senator Angus King will question Heggsett today about that initial price tag." "There are things in this budget that are very significant. The first is, what is the cost? They gave a number yesterday. I want to dig into that.
“I think that's a low-ball estimate. And of course, it doesn't count the $650 million a day.”
It's costing us all at the pump. That's a cost as well as being imposed on the American people." He spoke to NPR's morning edition. "Oil spiked to around $120 a barrel in trading today before settling back to around $113." Despite came after President Trump told Axios News website, he intends to keep the U.S. naval blockade on Iran until it agrees to a nuclear deal.
NPR's A-Betronway reports. President Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal to open the state of her moves in exchange for the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iranian vessels. Under Iran's proposal, nuclear talks would be delayed to a later stage. Trump told Axios, "He sees the U.S. blockade as, quote, "somewhat more effective than the
bombing, and that he does not want to lift the blockade on Iranian ships, because he does not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon."
“Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes.”
Trump told Axios it was time for Iran to quote "cryonkel and say we give up." Iran's lead negotiator Mohammed Galib Afrodon exs that oil prices would soon hit $140 on the back of the quote, "Junk Advice Trump's getting from people like Treasury Secretary Scott Basant about the naval blockade." Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a public statement, "I atoll a much to-bahomani claims
that the reason the Persian Gulf is unstable is due to the U.S. military," he says Iran will safeguard its nuclear assets. More testimony is expected today in California where billionaire Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, from Member Station KQED, Rachel Myro reports. Already control of OpenAI, poached top employees for Tesla, and pulled his funding when he didn't get his way.
Musk countered he never saw an absolute control and waited to sue because it took years.
For him to conclude, OpenAI had truly walked away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI's co-founder Greg Brockman is expected to take the stand for the first time today. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myro and Oakland. "This is NPR." The House of Representatives has narrowly passed a blueprint to pave the way for funding
federal immigration enforcement programs. These are part of the Department of Homeland Security, but DHS has been partly shut down since mid-February. Democrats want changes in federal immigration operations after agents killed two American protesters in Minneapolis.
The House has also voted to temporarily extend the government's spying power. It's part of the foreign intelligence surveillance act of Pfizer. The matter is going to the Senate, but there's little time.
“The key part of the law expires tonight.”
The Pfizer power lets the government collect information about people overseas. If agents pick up certain information about Americans in that process, they're allowed to keep it.
The first international conference to transition away from fossil fuels has closed in Santa
Marta, Colombia, and bears Julia Simon reports more than 50 countries attendant as did large fossil fuel producers. While United Nations climate conferences have been criticized for not addressing oil gas and coal, the main driver of climate change, in this today conference meant to complement the UN process, conversations were all about finding concrete ways to leave fossil fuels
behind. The countries will collaborate on efforts to cut fossil fuel production and decarbonize trade. The next conference will be hosted by Ireland and to Volu, a Pacific island nation threatened by rising seas.
It will take place in to Volu next year. Julia Simon and Pyrenees Santa Marta, Colombia. And I'm Kurva Coleman, and B.R. News in Washington. This year, for the first time in NPR's history, public media is operating without federal funding.
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