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The U.S. War with Iran is hitting energy prices and has helped drive annual inflation to the highest level in roughly three years. Today, the Labor Department says consumer prices in April were 3.8% higher than the same time a year earlier. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth is back on Capitol Hill defending the Pentagon's 227 military
budget request of one and a half trillion dollars. Jules Hertz of third, the Pentagon's top budget and finance official is telling members of Congress that the cost of the war is higher than the last estimate a couple of weeks to go $4 billion higher.
“At the time of testimony from the ask, it was $25 billion dollars, but the joint staff”
team and the comptroller team are constantly looking at that estimate. So now we think it's closer to $29, that's because of updated repair and replacement of equipment costs and also just general operational costs keep people in theater.
Her saying $29 billion, some analysts estimate the war cost is much higher than that.
The war is expected to be one of the issues discussed when President Trump travels to China. He leaves this afternoon and PR is the medical entrepreneur reports on what people in the U.S. think of the U.S. China relationship and a survey done by NPR in conjunction with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in Ipsis. In two polls over the last few months, there were some notable findings.
First, Americans see China on the rise and eyeing a dominant role in the world. 78% say they believe China wants to be a dominant world leader, particularly economically. But respondents also say they want to keep a strong trading relationship with China and they want tariffs lowered to keep costs down for U.S. consumers.
“Most also say the Iran war has been bad for both countries and their economies, but more”
Americans say the war is boosting China's geopolitical position than say it's helping U.S. national security, to medical months and our NPR news, Washington. Some businesses that applied for tariff refunds are expected to start getting their money this week. And PR's Elena Selya reports, it's been nearly three months since the Supreme Court ruled
most of the tariffs President Trump ordered last year were illegal. The U.S. government took about two months to set up an online system where companies that paid the illegal tariffs could request their money back.
It's an estimated $166 billion, though not all that is being processed in this first
wave. U.S. customs has also acknowledged that it did reject more than a third of refund claims for technical and data errors, though importers can refile. As of about two weeks ago, the agency said it had accepted claims covering about a fifth of all the shipments that are due refunds.
Nike is the latest big company to face a class action lawsuit that argues shoppers should get a cut of any refunds because they paid the costs through higher prices. Nike declined comment, "I'll be in the Silu and PR news." It's NPR. The man accused of attempting to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondence
dinner last month has pleaded not guilty 31-year-old Cole Allen appeared in federal court for his arrangement yesterday. NPR's Odette Usef says a survey suggests many people have doubts this and two other assassination attempts on Trump were "real." The newsguard Yuga Cole surveyed 1,000 Americans.
It asked about the incident at the dinner as well as incidents at a Trump rally in Butler Pennsylvania and on golf grounds in West Palm Beach, Florida. 30% of respondents thought at least one of those was staged. Across all three events, Democrats were most skeptical of the Butler incident with 42% saying they thought it was staged.
NPR's Odette Usef A hearing aid, your brain controls NPR's John Hamilton reports on a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience that suggests how the evapcent, in hearing assistance can make it easier for people to communicate in noisy places. The study used a hearing system that responds to a person's own brainwaves. Nima Mescarania of Columbia University says the system detects a special signal produced
when the brain is trying to focus on a specific sound. That gives us a signature that we can't look at someone's brain and then we can decide, "Oh yeah, this is the source that they want to listen to." When the signal appeared, the system automatically amplified the corresponding voice and filtered out competing voices.
Researchers say a hearing aid that works this way could solve a major problem for people with hearing loss, picking out one voice in a crowded room filled with speakers.
John Hamilton and PR news.
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