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Economists warn the financial fallout from the US war with Iran is already spreading
“beyond the gas pump with disruptions to shipping, freight, and oil markets driving up the”
cost of some everyday household products. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports experts say those costs could keep rising, even if tensions ease soon. Prices are going up because many everyday household products rely on plastics and petrochemicals. Jason Miller is a supply chain professor at Michigan State University.
"What we've seen as an example is plastic prices are going up. That's going to mean the plastic that is used to wrap your food will be more expensive. That means that the paper board that snacks are coming in is going to be more expensive." Robert says products like paint, soap, and WD40 could also cost more in the months ahead. And he warns those price increases may not ease anytime soon.
Ships have already avoided the Strait of Hormuz for nearly 10 weeks, creating supply chain backlogs that could take months or longer to untangle. Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington.
“"The President Trump has said Iran wants to make a deal," and he said it again this afternoon,”
as he pressures the Islamic Republic to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. At a military mother's day event at the White House today, President Trump gave the audience a preview of the new White House ballroom. "That's the entrance to the new ballroom that's being built, which is a good thing." "Which everybody likes, especially since last Saturday evening, like any of it, because
it'll have a thing called security." President Trump referencing the recent alleged attempt on his life at the White House Correspondence Center. The President had said taxpayers would not fit the bill for the ballroom, but
Senate Republicans have proposed spending $1 billion in government money for security upgrades
at the ballroom. CNN founder Ted Turner has died at the age of 87. He started the first U.S. superstation and owned sports teams, including the Atlanta Braves.
“He also sought to make the world a more peaceful place.”
The media mogul previously announced he had Louis Body Dementia, a degenerative disease, who's in Paris David Fokenflick. Ted Turner is perhaps best known for starting CNN. He was a visionary, a trailblazer, a rabble rouser, a dugouter, and he thought there would be a market for it.
That's Ethan Jordan, who rose to be CNN's chief news executive. The place operated on the cheap and on the fly. "Look, we were young, and at times very shotty, but we were the only game in town, we did some extraordinary things." CNN came into its own with coverage of the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion and the
first Gulf War. In 1996, with the launch of rivals, Fox News and MSNBC, Turner sold his holdings.
He gave a billion to fund the United Nations and helped to inspire the giving pledge from
philanthropic giants Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. That's David Fokenflick, it's NPR. Three cruise ship passengers who may have the hath of virus, or being flown to the Netherlands for treatment. They're among the eight cases on board, five confirmed, three suspected.
They were evacuated today before their ship carrying nearly 150 passengers departed for Spain's Canary Islands. The vessel had been stranded for days off the coast of Cape Verde, unable to dock due to public health concerns. Three people have already died from the hath of virus, which is a rare rodent-born illness.
The Make America Healthy Again Movement is often associated with healthy food and opposition to pesticides, but a new poll found on how supportive voters care much more about the cost of health care than those other issues. Here's NPR's Selena Simmons-Defin. The poll is from KFF, a non-partisan health research organization.
Officers who support the Make America Healthy Again, or Maha Movement were asked to rank their top priorities from a list. Lowering the cost of health care was by far the most popular choice across the political spectrum.
Four in ten Maha voters ranked cost issues first, compared to fewer than one in ten who chose
limiting corporate influence on food policy, for example. When it comes to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. only one in three Maha voters strongly approves of his job performance, even though Maha is Kennedy's signature effort, the survey was conducted in mid-April and included 1,300 people. Selena Simmons-Defin NPR News This is NPR News
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