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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth says the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is not over.
“He and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kane, held a press conference”
this morning. They discussed the new U.S. military operation to help commercial ships get through the straight of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates says it came under Iranian drone in missile attacks yesterday. NPR's Daniel Esthern reports from Tel Aviv.
After weeks of a ceasefire with Iran, there's been an escalation and concerns about a return to war. The U.S. Navy broke through Iran's blockade of the straight of Hormuz and escorted to American flagged merchant shipping vessels through.
Then the United Arab Emirates says it was attacked by Iran for the first time since
the ceasefire was announced a month ago. And Israeli military official told reporters that Israel is closely monitoring the situation and is on high alert. But Israel has not imposed any new emergency restrictions on public gatherings, like there were during the height of the Iran war.
Daniel Esthern and PR news, Tel Aviv. Former State Department de Gosciator and Middle East analyst Aaron David Miller warns that the military situation in the Middle East appears perilous.
“We could be at the cost of a serious escalation, largely because I think both sides still”
believe that they have the power to escalate. Both sides believe that time is still on their side, and that the pain threshold of the other is lower.
And both have quite different goals.
He spoke to NPR's morning edition. Stocks opened higher this morning, a day after crude oil prices climbed to their highest level this year. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped about 260 points in early trading.
crude oil prices have come down slightly from their peak on Monday, but the U.S. benchmark is still well above $100 a barrel, and investors are growing nervous that relief could be a long time in coming. Futures contracts for Brent Oil to be delivered six months from now are still priced above $90 a barrel.
“Retail gasoline prices in the U.S. continue to climb, triple-ase as the average price of regular”
gas rose more than two cents overnight to about $4.48 a gallon.
China has temporarily halted fireworks production in an area of who-non-provence after a deadly explosion into fireworks factory, China supplies the vast majority of fireworks used in the United States, including for this year's 250th anniversary celebrations. Scott Horsley and Piano is Washington. Several southern Republican-led states are moving to redraw their congressional districts.
This follows the Supreme Court's decision last week on the Voting Rights Act, the High Court gave Louisiana the right to redraw its districts as well, early voting was underway before the U.S. House races were suspended, tend to see an Alabama lawmaker's have open special sessions to redraw their districts as well. This is NPR.
The nominees for the season's Tony Awards for the best on Broadway have been announced. One of the nominees for Best Play is Liberation. Yesterday, it was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Playwright Best Wool has created a drama inspired by her mother, a women's liberation activist in the 1970s.
Other Best Play nominees are the Balisters, Giant, and Little Bear Ridge Road. One of the busiest immigration courts in California has stopped hearing cases as it prepares to close at the end of the year. From Member Station KQED, KDD Benedetti reports, the Trump administration has fired nearly 100 immigration judges this year.
San Francisco's immigration court will shift its backlog of more than 100,000 cases to a smaller court in the East Bay next year. That court in Concord was set up to handle overflow and has just five judges. Here's former judge, Cheryl Levine, who was fired last year. Simply dumping thousands and thousands of cases onto that same court would not seem
to further the goal of fairly alleviating the backlog. Some hearings are being pushed years into the future, while others are reset on short notice. Levine says both are making it harder for asylum seekers to get due process. For MPR News, I'm KDD Benedetti in San Francisco.
The National Weather Service says late-season snow is falling on central Colorado and southern Wyoming today, Denver and other areas will get several inches of snow. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, and Washington. I'm Jessie Thorne, this week on Bullseye Saturday Night Live's Keenan Thompson, asking whatever you want, just ask him to hang out late at the after party.
