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overnight, it comes as President Trump says any deal with Iran will include reopening
“the Strait of Hormuz, and Piers A. A. Betronoy reports."”
U.S. forces shot down Iranian drones around the Strait of Hormuz and struck a launch site for those drones along Iran's coast overnight. That's according to a U.S. official who spoke to MPR. This is the second incident's violence in the Persian Gulf this week, both times the U.S. military called these defensive acts intended to maintain the
current ceasefire. Iran's revolutionary guards as it responded to the overnight U.S. attack
on Bundar Abbas by targeting quote the American base from which that attack originated. It didn't say what its target was, but Kuwait says it intercepted drones Thursday morning. The revolutionary guard also says it fired at an American vessel trying to transit the Strait undetected with its radar turned off Wednesday, forcing it to turn around.
“A. A. Betronoy and Piers News, Dubai Stocks Open Lower this morning after the Commerce”
Department reported a jump in inflation last month. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones and Dustrial Arvich fell about 100 points in early training. The Commerce Department's inflation measure, which is closely watched by the Federal Reserve, shows prices in April were up 3.8 percent from a year ago. That's the biggest annual increase in almost three years.
Price has rose for a tenth of a percent between March and April, fueled in part by the spike in energy prices triggered by the war with Iran. A separate report from the Commerce Department shows consumer spending and inventory investment
were not as strong in the first three months of the year as initially reported, revised figures show the economy grew at an annual pace of just 1.6 percent during January February and March.
That's down from an earlier estimate of 2 percent. Scott Horsley and Piers News Washington.
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to temporarily block an executive order from President Trump.”
It calls for restricting voting by mail. NPR's Hansi Lowang reports another judge in Massachusetts is preparing to rule on the same order in the coming weeks. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found it's too early for an emergency ruling that would black President Trump's order because the order's main directives have not been carried out yet. This leaves in place, at least for now, Trump's latest executive order that tests the limits of the President's power under the Constitution. The order calls for the federal government to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state.
It also calls for banning the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail and ballots to anyone not on those lists. Democrats and voting rights groups argued in court the Constitution gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the President to set federal election rules. Since Trump signed the order in March, it's been unclear whether and how it would actually affect voting by mail, which has continued for this year's midterm primary elections. On Zila Wong, in Pier News. The Pentagon says it struck another alleged drug vote in the Eastern Pacific yesterday.
It says it killed two alleged drug traffickers. The Trump administration does not offer evidence linking the strikes or the people to drug trafficking. You're listening to NPR news.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is repeating his opposition to a new $1.8 billion fund announced by the Justice Department.
It will offer payouts to people who say they were targeted by the federal agency. Governor Newsom says he'll move to tax 100% of the payout that any California resident receives. The head of the American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingaarten, is calling for an end to artificial intelligence in elementary schools and Piers Cori Turner reports. In a speech at the National Press Club, Weingaarten laid out a 10-point plan to help schools navigate what she called a crossroads. The points include no screens or online tests for kids from pre-K through second grade, no student-facing AI across the elementary school grades and a total ban on social companion chatbots for students until at least age 16.
Weingaarten also called for the creation of an independent research group to study the effects of AI, screens, and technology on students. And for what she called a tech tax on big tech companies to quote pay their fair share for the adverse and disruptive consequences of AI. Cori Turner and PR News Officials on the big island of Hawaii say they're dealing with a water shortage. Last Friday a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of six rocked the island and it weakened or broke several of the islands large water storage tanks.
Homeowners and farmers depend on these storage tanks for drinking water and for watering crops, way residents are now being asked to reduce their water usage. I'm Cori Vakulman, NPR News in Washington. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR is what's happening in culture podcasts. Starts by asking three questions. Who? How? Why now? If the culture is asking it, we're talking about it.
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