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U.S. Central Command has begun another round of strikes on Iran, and PR's Quill Lawrence
“reports back and forth violence threatens to undermine a ceasefire and hope for a negotiated”
peace. Iran's drone attack that downed a U.S. Apache helicopter this week has set in motion the most sustained hostilities since a shaky ceasefire took hold in April. Central 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 unwanted 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. House lawmakers grilled Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for more than four hours today about
his year's long relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the appearance was part of the Republican-led House Oversight Committee's investigation into the disgraced finance ear. Emperors, Ava Burger, has more.
Bill Gates told lawmakers he never witnessed or knew about any of Epstein's crimes.
Before the closed or interview, he stopped until reporters he was appearing voluntarily.
“"I hope my testimony is helpful to the work important work of the committee to find”
justice for the victims." In an opening statement, Gates said he met with Epstein on various occasions from 2011 to 2014, because he believed Epstein could help connect him with potential donors for his foundation. Gates also admitted to affairs and said Epstein used that information to pressure Gates to quote, "we engage with him."
Ava Burger and PR News. President Trump signed a bill into law giving $70 billion to ICE in the border patrol today enough to fund the agencies through the end of his term. It ends in nearly six months fight over Department of Homeland Security funding that began with shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens during Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
In Southern California, the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency executed a search warrant today, an aerospace plant and garden grove, the investigation follows a major chemical scare last month, that forced some 50,000 nearby residents to flee their homes as Jill Replical reports.
“Several days over Memorial Day weekend, firefighters warned that a tank holding several thousand”
gallons of a toxic chemical known as MMA was in danger of exploding, with a potential blast zone that included surrounding neighborhoods that chemical eventually stabilized.
Here's first assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Asale.
"Obviously this was a huge case that had a big impact on the community, so we want the public to be assured that we're going to take this seriously." He says the EPA and other federal agencies are looking into whether the company, G.K. and aerospace failed to take precautions to prevent the scare. For NPR News, I'm Jill Replical, in Garden Grove.
U.S. stocks fell today, the NASDAQ slid nearly 2%. This is NPR News. The Trump administration is urging a federal court to reject and attempt to block this weekend's U.F. seafight on the south lawn on the White House, arguing that the event is too close to make any changes to Virginia residents sued, arguing that environmental review and congressional
approval weren't followed. A coalition of tribal conservation and environmental groups has filed lawsuit challenging a federal land exchange that would transfer more than 700 acres of a south Texas wildlife refuge to space acts. Texas Public Radio's "Corey Cook" reports.
The lawsuit filed against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks to block the transfer of 715 acres of a lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX for 683 acres of land the company owns. Plain ifs argue the exchange violates federal laws requiring wildlife refuge landswops to provide net conservation benefits.
Lake in short, all is with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups filing the lawsuit. From the beginning, SpaceX has been a terrible neighbor to this wildlife refuge, and over the years they have actually decorated the ecological value of this refuge land. SpaceX, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, has expanded rapidly in
the area since selecting Boca Chica as a launch site in 2014. I'm Corey Cook and San Antonio. Scientists have discovered marine life thriving on a million-year-old whale graveyard. Researchers used a submersible to explore the remains in the south eastern Indian Ocean and found bones, dating back 5.3 million years, the researchers say several factors help
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