Line from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the Labor Department has ...
report on consumer prices.
“The war with Iran has pushed inflation to its highest level in three years.”
Last month consumer prices were up 3.8% compared to what they were a year ago. Consumers paid more for energy, because the state of Hormuz remains closed. The news about consumer prices comes as the Pentagon releases a new estimate for how much
the war in Iran has cost so far, it's at least $29 billion, that's up 4 billion from
the last estimate to weeks ago. And as the war against Iran continues, President Trump will depart for China this afternoon on a state visit. As NPR's Chamber Keith reports, trade is on the agenda. The White House says President Trump intends to deliver more good deals on behalf of the
country to rebalance trade with China. There is currently a trade route between the U.S. and China after an all-out trade war last year. Melanie Hart is the senior director of the Global China Hub at the Atlantic Council.
“The U.S. wants big purchase announcements, more access to China's where Earth's progress”
is on fentanyl and made for TV diplomatic spectacle.
China is going to deliver on the spectacle trying to conduct spectacle better than anybody. They will also deliver on the purchases. There will be bilateral meetings, so welcome, ceremony, and a banquet, Tamar Keith and PR news. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is expected to collapse next week.
One of his religious coalition partners is calling to dissolve these really Parliament. According to Israeli media reports, this came after Netanyahu would not advance legislation to exempt ultra-orthodox Israelis from the military. Ukraine says Russia has resumed its attacks on Ukrainian cities after a tenuous three-day truce expired one that President Trump said that he brookered, and Beers Joannica Kisses
has more from Kiev.
Ukraine's foreign minister Anvide Sabihah shared on social media that "kave had proposed
to extending the ceasefire."
“Instead Sabihah wrote Moscow, "choes to attack a kindergarten and civilian infrastructure."”
President Vladimir Zelensky added that Ukrainian forces shot down hundreds of attack drones around the country and recorded more than 80 aerial bombs and air strikes on the front line. He said Ukraine would respond to these attacks and urged allies to enforce sanctions against Russia.
Which side was supposed to change a thousand prisoners over the weekend, but negotiations continue. Zelensky says the U.S. remains engaged as a mediator in this prisoner swap. Joannica Kisses and PR news "kave." "You're listening to NPR news from Washington."
The Justice Department is charging the operator of a cargo ship that crashed into a major and Baltimore Bridge two years ago. Federal prosecutors have charged the company's synergy marine group and the ship's technical superintendent with the collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Six construction workers were killed.
Several American cruise ship passengers and a British national who were potentially exposed to the rare hunt of virus are now being monitored at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. It is the only federally funded quarantine unit in the U.S. on patient who tested positive is being housed at the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit. The fourth national baseball poetry festival took over a ball park in Worcester, Massachusetts
this past weekend. From member station WBUR, Andrea Shey has the score. "Holits of all ages from across the country traveled to polar park, Worcester's minor league stadium to celebrate America's national past-time through VERS. National baseball poetry festival founder Steve Beyonda Lillot acknowledges how niche the
literary genre might seem to some." It's a giant hidden tribe, right? There are poets everywhere and then baseball just becomes a great subject matter. One of the most famous baseball poems also has Worcester roots. On town poet Ernest Thayer wrote Casey at the bat Thayer in 1888.
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