"Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corps of Accomment, Iran's revolutionar...
says the possibility of safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be provided, according to new procedures, but it did not specify what those procedures are. This comes after President Trump halted a short-lived U.S. military operation to take control of the Strait from Iran, and beer's A.A. betrroy reports."
The operation called "project freedom" began Monday, but not before several Iranian revolutionary
guard's speedboats were sunk in. Iran then fired at the U.S. Navy and launched missiles at neighbor-the-united Arab Emirates, threatening a month-long ceasefire. Defense Secretary-Pee Hacksets set on Tuesday the operation was "a gift from the U.S. to the world to secure commercial shipping." But later that day, Trump declared the operation paused.
He cited quote "great progress toward a final deal with Iran," but set a blockade on Iranian ports remains in place.
“Ending that blockade is a key Iranian demand.”
"A.A. betrroy and beer news do buy." The war in Iran has triggered higher gas prices, triple-a's says, "the average national cost for a gallon of regulars now $4.54. Kentucky Governor Andy Bashir has announced an emergency order. It will lower the state's gas tax as fuel prices rise."
From Member Station W.E.K.U, Shepard Snyder has more. Gas prices in Kentucky have risen above $4 per gallon with some Cincinnati suburbs, seeing prices approaching $5 per gallon. The state's like Indiana and Georgia, both led by Republican governors, have suspended their own gas taxes in response to the increasing cost of fuel.
Governor Bashir, a Democrat, is following the same strategy in Kentucky. "The price of gas isn't partisan, it's not Democrat or Republican, it's just too high." He expects the tax cut to take effect next week.
“Once it's approved, it would cut taxes by 10 cents per gallon for the next month.”
For NPR News, I'm Shepard Snyder in Lexington, Kentucky. Another one Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission is calling for a review of the ownership interests in the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery. She is questioning the foreign investments, and appears modeling the barco reports. Paramount Skydance 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 percent 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." Mandalit del Barco and PR News and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Results are in from primaries in Ohio and Indiana, in Ohio, former Democratic Senators Sherrod Brown will try to win a seat against incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Houston
said this fall, Brown lost his own Senate seat in 2024 to a different GOP challenger. In Indiana, President Trump's endorsements helped five challengers defeat state Republican senators. The ousted Republicans opposed Trump's demands for redistricting in Indiana. The make America healthy again movement is often associated with healthy food and opposition
to pesticides, but a new poll has found, Maha's supportive voters care much more about the cost of health care than those other issues, and PR Salinas Simmons Duffin prepared this report. The poll is from KFF, a nonpartisan health research organization, voters 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. Former intent Maha voters ranked cost issues first, compared to fewer than one intent 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. Salinas Simmons Duffin and Pierre News, "And I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News from Washington."
Rare Earths have become a powerful political tool for China, but before that, one U.S. company
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