Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder, just two days into the operation the US...
pausing efforts to guide ships from foreign countries through the straight-up or moves. President Trump says he's calling off the action to see if an agreement with Iran can be reached to announce a pause on social media, saying he acted on a request by Pakistan, which has become the key mediator. US Southern Command has destroyed another small boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, killing
three people, impures Quill Lawrence reports on the second such strike in two days.
South Composted Surveillance Video on social media, showing a small boat it claimed was carrying narcotics exploding into flames. Two people were killed in a similar strike on Monday in the Caribbean, and nearly 200 have been killed this way since September. The Trump administration announced last year that it is at war with transnational drug
cartels, and that allows the military to kill suspected traffickers without trial. Jim and Wright's advocates say it's murder. The White House claims it has prevented hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States, but government data show most drug deaths in the US are from fentanyl, which comes mostly overland from Mexico.
Quill Lawrence and PR News. President Trump is again criticizing Pope Leo over the Iran war, an impure chasin derose reports that Pope has again responded. Trump repeated his attack on the Pope during a calling appearance on the conservative talk radio program hosted by Hugh Hewitt.
"The Pope would rather talk about the fact that it's okay for a rant to have a nuclear weapon,
“and I don't think that's very good, and I think he's the end-day during a lot of Catholics”
that a lot of people."
To be clear, Pope Leo has never said Iran should have a nuclear weapon, but has repeatedly
spoken out in favor of peace and urged people to contact their elected officials to call for an end-hustilities with Iran. Speaking outside Rome, Leo responded by saying, quote, "The mission of the church is to proclaim the gospel to preach peace," and he said if someone wants to criticize him for proclaiming the gospel, "Let him do so truthfully." Jason D'Rose and PR News.
Similar to the leaders of Indiana, Georgia, Michigan, Kentucky's governor taking emergency measures to lower gas prices, Karen Tsar, with member stationed WUKY reports. Governor Andy Beshear's signed emergency measures that will freeze Kentucky sales tax on gas saline starting in July, and declared a state of emergency that would lower prices by 10 cents a gallon beginning next week, if it's approved by the State's Attorney General.
Beshear said he doesn't see negotiations to end the war with Iran moving forward, and it's time to quote, "Be proactive." "When you don't see a path towards the straight opening up,
“the war ending, and gas prices going down, then you have to act."”
Beshear has also urged members of Congress to suspend the federal gas tax. For NPR News, I'm Karen Tsar, in Lexington. "This is NPR News." The loan Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission is calling for a review of the ownership interest in the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery.
Specifically, she questions of foreign investments, the Senbir's Mandelito Barco reports. Paramount's guidance holds broadcast licenses for CBS, and needs the FCC to sign up on its merger with Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN and HBO. David Ellison's company recently filed papers asking the FCC to permit foreign investors to hold more than 25% of its equity and voting interests.
According to those documents, the investors include the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. But FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez says there are serious unresolved questions about those investments that she says could jeopardize national security. Gomez is calling on the FCC to conduct a full and independent review before approving transactions with foreign governments, which she says have, quote,
"attrobbling willingness to silence journalists." Mandelito Barco and PR News. "Former New England Patriots Receiver, Stephon Diggs has been found not guilty of assaulting his private chef." The trial lasted two days, and the jury deliberated for less than two hours, Diggs had been facing a felony strangulation charge and a misdemeanor of salt and battery charge.
Busters and Tokyo taking a break trading in Japan close for a holiday, but market sales were in Asia mostly higher in Wednesday trading. South Korea's benchmark
tops 7,000 for the first time powered by an artificial intelligence rally and semiconductor stocks.
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