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Iranian ground control stations and surveillance radar sites along the Strait of Hormuz. Yesterday, President Trump blamed Iran for downing a U.S. helicopter, and B.R.A.A. Batrawi reports the two pilots ejected safely." U.S. Central Command says the military carried out "self-defense strikes against Iran Tuesday night in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz."
St. Com called the Operation a "proportional response to recent attacks on U.S. forces and international commercial ships." Iran says among the targets hit by the U.S. are reservoirs that provide drinking water to 20,000 people. Iran says it responded by firing missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
Iran's foreign minister Abbas Iraqis did not directly mention the "downing of the American helicopter."
“But he cautioned on ex that the best way to avoid accidents and being caught in cross-fire”
is for foreign forces to leave the Gulf. A. Abbas Raleigh and Pyrenees Dubai The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling this week. The judge struck down President Trump's $100,000 fee on H1B visas. From member station KQED, Rachel Myro reports the judge called the fee and illegal tax.
A federal judge in Boston sided with 20 states led by California, which said the fee would hit hospitals and universities, not just the tech firms that use the program most. Two other cases are in play, including one in Washington that went the other way. UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says this fight is likely headed for the Supreme Court.
If this is a tax, as the district was said, then the president lacks the authority to impose it. Only Congress can impose a tax. A White House spokesperson says the program's been abused for decades, the president
“can decide who enters the country and the administration is confident it will win on”
appeal. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Myro. A new analysis of the number of abortions in the U.S. in 2025 finds that the overall number increased compared to the previous year, and P.R. Selina Simmons-Duffin reports the number has increased every year for the past four years.
The Society of Family Planning launched the We Count Project to measure the number of abortions nationally just before the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion. So we're now four years after dogs, and seeing that people are still getting abortions here, although the ways that they're getting that care have shifted. That's Leah Canick, who directs the We Count Project.
We've seen this really enormous growth in telehealth abortion, which now makes up 29% of U.S. abortion.
Their latest study found that there were 1.13 million abortions in the U.S. in 2025, an increase
from the previous year, despite many state bands across the country. Selina Simmons-Duffin and P.R. News. You're listening to NPR.
“Four states held primarys yesterday, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota, and South Carolina.”
In Maine, Democrats picked Oyster-Former Grand Platner to face incumbent Republican senators Susan Collins in the fall. In South Carolina's gubernatorial primary lieutenant governor Pamela Evett and state attorney General Allen Wilson will go to a Republican runoff. South Carolina GOP representatives Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman did not make the runoff.
The prediction site, Calshy, is starting to require traders to reveal their employers as a way of cracking down on insider trading. This comes as the popular betting site faces new pressure to combat market manipulation. And beer's Bobby Allen has more. Calshy says putting money down on a company's performance or national security matters like
the war in Iran will now mean revealing where you work. Prediction market apps like Calshy and Polly Market have soared in President Trump's
second term thanks to lacks regulations, allowing virtually anyone to bet on anything from
the color of President Trump's tie to who will be eliminated on the next season of Love Island. But there's growing research that some of the billions of dollars traded every week on the apps is done so using insider intel. Calshy's new employer disclosure requirements come as lawmakers and regulators in Washington away new rules for the industry.
But critics of the administration say since the president's son Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to both companies, the new rules are not expected to be too stringent, Bobby Allen and PR news. The Stanley Cup final in men's pro hockey is now tied at two games of peace last night at the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Vegas Golden Knights five to three.
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