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U.S. Central Command says the U.S. military conducted another round of strikes at Iran.
“NPR's Quill Lawrence reports the back-in-fourth violence threatens to undermine a ceasefire”
and hopes for a negotiated peace." Iran's drone attack that down a U.S. Apache helicopter this week has set in motion the most sustained hostilities since a shaky ceasefire took hold in April. Financial Command launched what it called "Proportional Response to Unjustified Iranian Aggression."
Iran struck back at U.S. bases in the Gulf, and now St. Com says it has launched additional, quote, "self-defense strikes in response to Iran's unwarranted and continued aggression." President Trump told Fox News that the next round of attacks might take out power plants and bridges, though targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime.
Quill Lawrence and PR news. A federal judge has denied a request to temporarily block the justice department's
nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate President Trump's allies who say they were targeted
for prosecution and PR's Ryan Lucas reports.
“"The lawsuit was filed by the group's citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington.”
The Justice Department says the case is moot because the department has said it is not moving forward with the anti-weaponization fund." The watchdog group, however, says the fund has not been formally rescinded, and so on paper it still legally exists. So it is asking the court to temporarily block the fund for now.
At a hearing in federal court, U.S. district judge Richard Leon denied that request. The judge said the issue does appear to be moot because of the Justice Department's public declarations, but he also warned the government not to play possum with the court. Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington. A wartime spike in gasoline prices has pushed inflation to its highest level in more than
three years. And PR's Scott Horstley reports on the latest numbers from the labor department.
Consumer prices in May were up 4.2 percent from a year ago.
That's the biggest annual increase since April of 2023.
“Prices rose by half a percent between April and May with energy costs, accounting from”
more than 60 percent of that monthly increase. Keeping out volatile food and energy costs, so-called core inflation was 2.9 percent for the 12th month sending in May, a slightly larger annual increase than the previous month. Gasoline prices have moderated in recent days, but are still about $1.17 a gallon higher than they were before.
The U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran. Triple A says the average price of regular gas is about $4.15 a gallon. Scott Horstley and PR news, Washington. Visit and Trump Wednesday signed into law a nearly $70 billion three-year funding package for his immigration and deportation agenda.
The legislation passed Congress last week. It will spend $38 billion for immigration and customs enforcement and another $26 billion for the border patrol. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal prosecutors in Minnesota now say they will not seek the death penalty as part
of a plea deal with the suspect charged in the political assassination of the Tot Democrat in Minnesota's house along with her husband. Suspect Bansbottler has been charged and has a plea hearing scheduled for Thursday morning in Minneapolis in federal court. He has also been charged with the attempted murder of a Minnesota state senator and his wife.
A warming climate could mean hail storms will get larger and do more in terms of property damage. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies has more. U.S. losses from hail storms have increased fivefold since 2008, according to Victor Jincini, a professor of meteorology at Northern Illinois University.
Last year in the United States alone, hailed over $50 billion in ensure loss. He says there's evidence that the warming atmosphere creates more powerful thunderstorms in stronger updrafts. So that's the air that's rushing upward towards outer space. And those updrafts get stronger, it suspends these hailstones.
But the bigger hailstones he eventually come crashing down to Ncini says hail could get 75% larger as climate change continues for NPR news on David Martin Davies in San Antonio. Canada could be joining the growing number of nations to ban social media accounts for young people, possibly keeping children under the age of 16 from having accounts. Legislation was introduced Wednesday, they would also set up a new government agency
the digital safety commission of Canada, which would administer the proposed regulations. I'm Dan Rahman NPR news. Support for this is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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