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The U.S. military says Iran launched ballistic missiles and drones toward the straight of Hormuz and Gulf Arab allies.
“In response, Central Command says U.S. forces intercepted at least six of seven missiles,”
saying the attack drones posed an immediate threat to regional maritime traffic. Trans-Islamic Revolutionary Guard claims it attacked "enemy bases in the region, apparently hitting them with aerospace missiles." President Trump says he wants new acting director of national intelligence billpulti to cut the office.
"We will never, this way too high, we will wait too long, we will not, if we got, we will
not." That's the President speaking on board Air Force One earlier while traveling to Wisconsin for an agricultural visit. A new market poll finds that the public is evenly divided as to whether the Supreme Court justices are motivated by law or politics, with a small majority believing that the answer
is politics. But as NPR's Nina Tottenberg reports, the numbers on term limits indicate that the court has a problem.
“The results of the poll show that the public is split 50-50 on whether Congress should”
enlarge the court, something it could do with legislation only. But when asked how they feel about term limits for justices, 79% approved and only 21% were opposed.
Indeed, fixed terms drew strong support from Republicans, Democrats, and independence.
But imposing fixed terms would likely take a constitutional amendment. The market poll also showed 55% of those surveyed said the Justice Department has filed unjustified criminal cases against Trump opponents. Interestingly, the numbers are roughly the same for Democrats, Republicans, and independence on this question.
Nina Tottenberg and PR News, Washington. It was an ugly day on Wall Street as AI stocks fell sharply amid fears the Federal Reserve may eventually have to raise interest rates. And Paris Rothfile now reports. You would think that when the U.S. government reports economy added about 170,000 jobs
as it happened this morning, people would cheer.
But for investors, the problem is that a strong job support means the Fed can now turn
its full attention to controlling, surging inflation. Traditionally, policymakers have been more willing to raise interest rates when they believe the labor market is robust, among the big declineers who are AI stocks. They've been doing really well, so investors used the chance to cash in some profits. As a result, the tech heavy NASDAQ was particularly hit, plunging more than 4%, its worst
day of the year. This is NPR News. For the first time in more than half a century, the New York Nix may have a chance to win the NBA Champions. The Nix now have 13 straight wins, beating the San Antonio Spurs 105 to 104.
The Chicago Bears appears poised across state lines into Indiana. The team's board of directors voting to move forward with plans to build a new stadium in Hammond.
“Remember, station WBEZ, no agenings reports.”
It's a potential conclusion to a year's long saga. The Indiana State House passed legislation earlier this year that would allow the Bears to keep all revenue generated by a new publicly owned stadium. That put pressure on Illinois, but the State House broke for the summer without passing any bills that would entice the Bears to stay.
Bears president Kevin Warren previously said the ability to negotiate the property taxes on a new facility was all they needed to stay in Illinois. And all we need is property tax certainly. And we're not trying to avoid paying taxes. We absolutely will pay taxes, but we want to just have certainly.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is pumping the brakes on the news, saying in a statement that the vote does not indicate this is a done deal. For NPR news, I'm Noah Jennings in Chicago. Ukraine's president says Russian leader Vladimir Putin quote simply does not want to end the war. Vladimir Zelensky's comments were made in his evening radio address to the nation following
his open letter inviting Putin to a face-to-face meeting in an attempt to negotiate a full ceasefire. Putin said he saw no point in meeting with Zelensky and suggested Zelensky travel to Moscow for peace talks. This is NPR news.
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