"Live," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
The United Arab Emirates says it is actively engaging with missile and drone attacks from Iran.
“Meanwhile, the U.S. has attempted to end Iran's hold on the straight-of-war moves by creating”
an enhanced security area, prompting new warnings from the Iranian government. Still, U.S. defense secretary Pete Hexeth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Cain say the U.S. Iran ceasefire is still holding NPR's Greg Myri with Hexeth send Cain's latest update from the Pentagon this morning. They said the shooting yesterday was below the threshold of resuming combat operations,
and they said though that the first day of this operation showed that the U.S. not Iran
controls the straight, that the U.S. blockade is holding while Iran's is not. No new clashes have been reported today, however, no additional commercial ships have gone through the straight. NPR is Greg Myri reporting. There's a test of President Trump's power of political retribution playing out in
an unexpected place. Half a dozen Indiana State Senate primaries, NPR's Tamara Keith reports of voting ends today. President Trump said the Republican State senators who rejected his push for new congressional maps should be ashamed of themselves.
Then he and his political allies worked to recruit challengers and have dumped millions of dollars into the races. Republican State Senator Spencer Deary is one of the targeted incumbents.
“You've seen at the national level, but I think what is unprecedented is at the local level.”
To my knowledge there has never been an election in our nation's history where you have
Washington DC meddling this much in a systematic way across a state. A political adviser to President Trump tells NPR these incumbents are headed to their quote, "political slaughter," Tamara Keith and PR news in Ohio voters are deciding competitive primary races for the U.S. Senate and House and Michigan residents will determine the outcome of a special election and control of the state Senate.
A new proposal to manage water from the Colorado River would make it much easier for cities in Arizona to tolerate cuts to their water supply. KJZ Z's Alex Hager reports a plan was co-signed by Arizona, California, and Nevada. Those states would leave water in the Colorado River as part of an effort to prop up dangerously low reservoirs.
Arizona would still have to take cuts, but they would not be as deep as suggested in a previous plan.
“Patrick Dent is with the Central Arizona Project, which brings Colorado River water to the”
Phoenix area. That's the difference between devastating, impossible-demandage cuts that wouldn't have real impacts on some of those communities, residents, to something that's manageable. The plan would still need approval from federal water managers, but they appear likely to pass at least parts of the new proposal.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. It's NPR News. Scores of people on board of cruise ship with a suspected hot of virus outbreak or waiting for help off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic. At least three people have died, several have become seriously ill.
Nevada virus can spread when particles from road and droppings are urine become airborne. The World Health Organization says it is rare to catch the haterpires from another human being. The Department of Justice is requesting the full roster of 2020 election workers in Fulton County, Georgia.
As a Trump administration continues its efforts to investigate and re-litigate the election President Trump lost. The subpoena for the information dated April 17 was made public yesterday. The official bookings in the U.S. for the upcoming Men's World Cup Soccer Tournament are running far below expectations.
We have more on this from NPR's Rafael Now. The World Cup was seen as the big deal in the hotel industry. The tournament is being staged this summer across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. With 11 American cities hosting games. But an industry survey from the American hotel and lodging association shows that nearly
80% of hotels in host cities are saying booking some running below projections. For some cities, it gets even worse. Kansas City says that 85% to 90% of hotels report booking are softer than anticipated. In fact, they are actually running even below a typical June or July. By contrast, hotels in both Miami and Atlanta report a much stronger number of bookings,
phone them in P.R. News.
This week on up first, gas prices just jumped 30 cents per gallon in a single week.
With the state of Hormuz still closed, the global energy shock is only getting deeper. Listen, for overnight developments on Iran, plus primaries in Ohio and Indiana as midterm election season heats up. We'll have the very latest every morning on up first.
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