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President Trump is threatening to retaliate against Iran for an attack that downed an Apache
helicopter in the Persian Gulf region.
“Iran has not claimed responsibility for the strike.”
His NPR is a deep ashiver on reports. It's unclear how Trump's warning will affect the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran and Washington's attempts at bringing an end to its war with Iran. Trump posted on social media that Iranians shot down the U.S. Army helicopter while it was patrolling over the straight of Hormuz, that vital waterway has been a point of contention
in the war and negotiations for a peace deal. Trump added that the two pilots in the helicopter are safe and not injured, but he said the U.S. quote must out of necessity respond to the attack. The White House has not responded to NPR's request for comment on how a U.S. response might impact the ceasefire that was previously agreed to between the U.S. Iran and Israel.
The U.S. and Israel's war with Iran has dragged on for months longer than Trump originally projected. Deepish Ivaram and PR news. The Trump administration is urging the European Union to follow the U.S.
“lead and impose travel restrictions on people coming from countries facing an Ebola outbreak”
and PR's Michelle Kalman reports. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with the European Commission President Ursula Vanderline to coordinate the U.S. and European responses to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. That's according to Rubio Spokesman, who says it is the Department's highest priority
to prevent the Ebola outbreak from reaching the United States. The U.S. has barred any travelers who have been to those countries in the past 21 days when official rights and a statement that other countries must do their part to ensure the outbreak does not spread further that requires travel restrictions and financial contributions the statement says.
Michelle Kalman and PR news, the State Department. Existing U.S. home sales in May jumped 3.2 percent from a year ago, the best showing this year, according to the National Association of Realtors, and PR's Steven Bassaha reports those sales included the highest number of first-time buyers in about six years. May's solid existing home sales could be assigned the housing market is starting to shake off
the slump it's been in since mortgage rates shut up four years ago.
First-time buyers made a 35 percent of existing home sales, but the increase was not evenly
spread. The Northeast still has a lack of available homes to buy and sales there were down 8 percent from a year earlier. More expensive homes also saw the biggest jump, sales for $1 million homes in above were up 11 percent, and there are mixed signals in the housing market.
Redfin reported new home listings and mortgage purchase applications fell in late May as the worth of run and renewed inflation concerns pushed mortgage rates up. Steven Bassaha and PR news. Another sudden reversal for AI stocks sent Wall Street Reeling today, it's NPR. The FDA has signed off on the first new sunscreen ingredient for the U.S. market in more
than 25 years. The FDA says the chemical "beamotrisanal" long used in Europe meets the agency's standards for protecting from dangerous sun rays while causing little irritation. It'll initially be sold in the U.S. or the brand name "Parsal Shield." NASA unveiled the four astronauts who will embark on the Artemis-3 mission, which will
test out lunar landing systems, Michael Adkinson from Member Station Houston Public Reports. Mission specialists, Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio, pilot Luca Parmatono and Commander Randy Breisnick will embark on Artemis-3 as soon as next year. Here's Commander Breisnick speaking at the Johnson Space Center on Tuesday. It is an honor and a blessing to be a part of such a stellar crew.
The crew is racially diverse, but they're all men. I asked NASA Administrator Jared Isaacmin about the all-male crew. "I don't think anyone should be reading into this.
Our last astronaut, candidate class, was a greater than 50 percent female.
We'll assemble the best astronauts to undertake and complete the objective set up for the following mission." Artemis-3 will take that crew into low-earth orbit to test lunar landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin. For NPR News, on Mike Lackison in Houston.
The industrious beaver is taking center stage in a world-cup themed contest in Toronto, the great beaver quest challenges visitors to locate 51 beaver statues that have been placed throughout the city. Each has been hand-painted by a different local artist. The city expects 300,000 visitors to descend on Toronto over the course of three weeks.
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