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Just two days into the Operation Dubbed Project, Freedom, the US Navy is stopping efforts
“to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz, and PR's Franco-Ordonia's reports Trump says”
he's calling off the action to see if an agreement with Iran could be reached. President Trump announced he was pausing the military escort, after declaring, quote, "great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran." He added that he was also acting on a request by the leaders of Pakistan, which is helping negotiate an agreement, as well as other countries.
Trump said on social media that the pause will only be for a short period of time to see whether or not an agreement can be finalized and signed, but he emphasized that the US blockade on Iranian ports would continue. Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Project Freedom as a defensive operation, and that the US would only respond if fired upon.
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Americans are paying an average of $4.48 a gallon for regular gas today, and California is $6.13, that's up about 50% since the war with Iran began.
“President Trump has claimed gas prices will come crashing down after the war, but as Martha”
Gimble, the executive director of the Yale Budget Lab explains, even if the conflict ends soon, it'll take a long time for gas prices to go down. There are many factors that go into affordability. One thing to keep in mind is that we've already seen, not just holding back of supply, but supply destruction.
And so it's going to take time to rebuild facilities to start production up again. It's not the case that you can just turn it on and off like a switch. George Martha Gimble from the Yale Budget Lab, a grand jury has handed up and indictment against the man accused of trying to storm the White House Correspondence dinner, 31-year-old Cole Allen faces four counts, and appears Ryan Lucas reports.
Cole Allen was previously charged by criminal complaint with three counts, including most notably trying to assassinate President Trump. Now the indictment adds a fourth count, assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon. Prosecutors say Allen traveled from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to try to kill President Trump at the White House Correspondence dinner.
“Allen was stopped by secret service agents second after he ran past a security checkpoint.”
He is being detained, pending trial. He is scheduled to be back in court next week for his arrangement. Ryan Lucas and Pure News, Washington. Well-feet biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Rameswami has won the Ohio Republican primary for governor, according to a race call by the Associated Press, Democrat
doctor Amy Akden, a former state health commissioner, will face Rameswami in the general election. A Democrat hasn't been elected governor of Ohio in 20 years, but this year's race does look competitive. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
President Trump is reviving the presidential physical fitness award as he reintroduces a competitive physical fitness test in America's schools. The award is part of Trump's revamped presidential fitness test, which had been a public school fixture for decades, but was faced out under President Barack Obama. The earlier exam tested children on exercises, including a one-mile run in sit-ups.
Those scoring above the 85th percentile received the presidential award. Crypto exchange Coinbase is the latest company to announce layoffs that were driven in part by advances made by AI and PR's Raphael Nam reports. CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a memo at the Coinbase he's aiming to build a leaner and faster company.
As a result, the company would be removing layers of management and laying off about 700 employees in the company that has just about 5,000. When factors cited by the CEO was AI, which is allowing the company to automate some processes that used to require humans. A number of top companies such as Meta and Amazon have announced layoffs to invest more
on AI. Coinbase also says the layoffs are in part a result of the volatility in the crypto market list this year. Raphael Nam, in PR News. A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to Alcatraz Island earlier this year.
Initially biologists thought it swam from San Francisco about a mile away, but DNA analysis revealed it came from Angel Island twice the distance. Park officials plan to relocate it because of Alcatraz's seabird habitat, but the coyote hasn't been seen since. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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