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Iran says it's shot down a U.S. drone after the U.S. targeted Iranian Navy boats.
That comes as Iran and the U.S. are negotiating a deal to reopen the straight-up or moves and enter nuclear talks. And here's Daniel Lestrin has more from Tel Aviv. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a deal could be days away, but it's unclear how the latest military escalation will affect efforts to reach a deal.
Iran said at least four naval officers were killed in the U.S. attacks. The U.S. says it was targeting boats laying mines. And Iran reported explosions around a city on the straight of Hormuz.
“That's the strategic waterway crucial to the world's oil and gas supplies that the U.S.”
wants Iran to reopen. Israel's opposition leader, Yair Lapid, called the Iran deal being negotiated, bad. He argued it would be a matter of time before another war erupts between Israel and Iran. Daniel Lestrin and PR news, Tel Aviv.
In Texas today, a high-stakes Senate primary runoff is taking place between two Republicans. In common, Senator John Kornin and State Attorney General Ken Paxton, whom Trump, president, Trump had endorsed. Kornin is trying for the nomination for a fifth term, and Fuhrs Claudi Glysalis has more.
This race exposed a crack in the red wall of Texas. It pit the party's populist movement against its establishment wing. Senator John Kornin, a fixture of the establishment, was already facing a tough re-election fight.
“Now, with President Trump's endorsement of controversial, maga loyalist, Kim Paxton,”
the Kornin campaign, is on life support. And Pierce Claudi Glysalis, this amid Trump's falling poll numbers and voters angry over rising prices of food and gas, Democrats avoided to run off with their party's Senate nominee, James Tel Aviv. The White House says President Trump will visit his doctors today as part of a routine
dental and medical assessment. He is the oldest person to be inaugurated as president. And as then Pierce D. Pasha Varama reports, there are persistent questions about his health and his fitness for office. Trump will visit Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington, DC.
It's typically where presidents are treated. The White House says this visit is, quote, part of his regular preventative health care. His last annual physical exam was in April 2025.
“Then last October, he went back to Walter Reed for a scheduled follow-up, the White House”
leader revealed that was for a CT scan. Trump is the second oldest president in U.S. history after former president Joe Biden. For months, there have been questions about the president's health, including over his bruised hand and apparent fatigue during events. Trump has said the bruising is from taking too much aspirin, Deepish Everom and PR News.
Austria's trading in mixed territory at this hour, the Dow is down 93 NASDAQ up 232. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A live streamer who has accumulated tens of thousands of followers for posting videos calling other people racial slurs is facing attempted murder charges. Cynthia Abrams from Member Station WPLN reports Dalton Etherley, known online as Chud the
Builder, is being held on a $1 million bond.
Dalton Etherley, who is white, allegedly shot and wounded a black man outside a courthouse in Montgomery County, Tennessee earlier this month. He had also been arrested on different charges days earlier, after Etherley allegedly became disruptive and made racial statements at a restaurant in Nashville, and then refused to pay for his meal.
Etherley's case has stoked debate over free speech. Under the name Chud the Builder, he has garnered a following for posting heat-filled interactions on social media, since his arrest, his followers have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to support him and his family. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
It's been hot and parts of Western Europe, scorching hot as temperature records are being broken and government are issuing warnings. In France and Britain, there are several drownings reported as people try to cool off. Yesterday was the hottest day in May on record for the UK, and France is also seeing record highs with forecasts of around 97 degrees Fahrenheit. The country's national weather service says a heat-dumb held in place by high pressure weather
front is producing temperatures more than 10 degrees higher than usual for this time of year. I'm Jeanine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Trump administration is backtracking on federal efforts to fight climate change, so city and state governments are stepping in. We think we are standing what can be the future of energy and Denver.
On the Sunday Story, climate solutions on the local level.
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