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The U.S. has resumed strikes on Iran after President Trump said Iran was taking too
long to negotiate a peace deal.
“The countries have traded attacks several times despite Trump repeatedly saying the war”
is winding down soon, and here's a deeper shiver on his more. Trump says Iran down to U.S. Army helicopter earlier this week, both pilots were unharmed. On Tuesday, the U.S. resumed strikes on Iran to retaliate, and Trump said more strikes would follow. "We'll see what happens, but we hit him hard yesterday, and we're going to hit him again
hard today." The renewed conflict likely means the war with Iran that Trump and Israel started will go on even longer, contrary to the President's repeated claims that it would be short and that an end is incite. Trump also claims that a peace deal has been fully negotiated with Iran, but Iran just
needs to sign it.
Negotiations have been going on for weeks, with little signs of a deal being reached
soon. Deepish Ivaram and PR news, the White House. A key spy law that the government says underpins more than 60% of President Trump's daily intelligence briefing might expire Friday, despite a deal that appeared to be coming together in Congress to extend it, and PR's Eric McDaniel reports.
The President has doubled down on Bill Polty to be the acting director of national intelligence. Polty, head of a housing finance agency, has been a prominent partisan attack dog for the President, leveraging confidential information to go after the President's perceived enemies that concerns Democrats, many of whom already worried about how the spy law known as FISA 702 has been used to peruse Americans' private electronic communications without
a court warrant. If Polty can use mortgage forms to further Trump spend debt as what could he do with the
“whole U.S. surveillance apparatus the thinking goes?”
It will be tough for Republicans to find a path forward largely on their own, a number
of GOP lawmakers are also worried about the law's privacy risks, Eric McDaniel and Piano News, the Capitol. Inflation hit 4.2% last month, the highest rate in three years with higher energy costs pushing up prices across the economy. Economists say consumers are likely to keep feeling the squeeze ahead of the midterm elections
and PR's Windsor-Johnston reports. Rising energy costs continue to work their way through the economy, pushing up the price of everything from food and airfare to shipping and manufacturing. Economist Mark Sandie says consumers shouldn't expect much relief anytime soon. "You know that all that, prices go up like a rocket that come down like a feather.
Oil prices now are kind of surrounded by 90 bucks a barrel. That may be but as low as it gets for a while, even if the President nails down some kind of deal here in the next few days, few weeks."
“Sandie says that typical household has paid more than $500 in added energy costs in February.”
That alone is more than the roughly $350 families received in tax relief this year. Windsor-Johnston and PR news. "Hey, I stocks drag the US stock market down today, this is NPR." Thousands of Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly to advance a formal ban on churches with female pastors in the nation's largest conservative and evangelical denomination.
The vote at their annual meeting sent a clear message that men alone should preach to congregations. The ban will require a similar vote at next year's meeting to be approved. Open AI says Chinese linked accounts use a chat GPT to fan online criticism of data centers in the US. PR's Shannon Bond reports the company says the influence operation was trying to capitalize
on a rising wave of anti-data-centered sentiment among Americans. "Open AI says the accounts were likely run by a private Chinese tech company working for provincial government clients in China. Using as Americans on social media, they posted AI generated comments and images highlighting electricity costs associated with data centers.
"Open AI's lead investigator, Ben Nimmo, says the campaign followed a familiar playbook." "This looks like a classic example of a foreign influence operation, jumping onto the bandwagon of a genuine and pre-existing domestic debate and trying to manipulate it by using fake accounts, posing as Americans." "Open AI says the social media posts didn't get much traction, and it has banned the accounts
from using chat GPT. Shannon Bond and PR news." "Legendary British actor Lawrence Olivier has been honored with a plaque at his childhood home in London, unveiled by Ian McCellan, the plaque marks where Olivier began acting as a child, creating a makeshift stage for performances.
McCellan says Olivier's influence on the profession is unforgettable, known for his Shakespearean roles. He won the Academy Award for playing Hamlet in 1949. This is NPR." "Hey, it's Ray from Car Talk, you tied up all the depth and thoughtful care that goes
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