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President Trump is threatening to strike Iran tonight, and plans to target Iran's oil infrastructure such as Card Island saying that'll happen in the not-too-distant future. This following a second straight-night of air strikes between the war rivals, and PR's Greg Myri, has more. The U.S. said it carried out dozens of strikes at hitter range of military facilities on
Iran's coastline with the straight-of-horse moves. U.S. Central Command said the operation began early Thursday, local time, and announced four hours later that it was over. President Trump said Iran was taking, quote, "too long to negotiate," he said he'd order another round of strikes if Iran does not agree to U.S. terms on ending the war.
Iran's revolutionary guard corps said it fired on 18 U.S. sites in the region, including
American military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. Trump also said the U.S. has helped some 200 oil tankers and other ships evade Iran's blockade of the straight since last month. Greg Myri, MPR News, Tel Aviv. Trump says the U.S. will assume total control of Iran's oil and gas markets.
The energy shock from the war, the U.S. and Israel initiated against Iran and late February, is the primary driver of inflationary pressures, poll suggests. The Republican leaders facing some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency in part due to anger over war related high gasoline prices.
“The U.S. House failed to pass an extension to a key spy tool essentially guaranteeing”
it'll expire tomorrow. Here's NPR's Eric McDaniel. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enables the government to scoop up the electronic communications of some 300,000 foreign nationals each year. The fight to extend the law is a cyclical controversy on Capitol Hill where many lawmakers
of both parties are concerned about past abuses. The law has been used to read the communications of American citizens without a court warrant. And it appeared that the deal was close to a three-year extension with minimal reforms until President Trump named Bill Pulti, a man with no national intelligence experience to oversee the program as acting director of national intelligence.
Intelligence collections will be allowed to continue under a grandfather clause for several more months. The House is now leaving town for a week, Eric McDaniel and Piero News Washington. "We're just hours away from the opening of the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Mexico City. Here's NPR Zeta Braulti."
In Mexico, football is a religion, so the city is plastered with billboards featuring the country's soccer stars, and it feels like everyone is wearing soccer jerseys, including the baby Jesus at the Metropolitan Cathedral. But the city is also tense because one of the country's teachers' unions has set up a protest cap just outside the main fan zone.
They, along with other protest groups, have warned they may try to march toward the legendary Estalea Stecca, where the opening match will take place, in the month-long tournament, Mexico and Canada will host 26 matches, beginning tomorrow the U.S. will host 78 games. "That's Adapralta, it's NPR." A large aluminum supplier to U.S. automaker says, it plans to restart production at its
plant in New York. Facility has been down for nine months because of a pair of fires. Here's NPR's Camila Dominozki. novellus is the world's largest recycler of aluminum and the largest domestic supplier for U.S. automants.
“Last year, a crucial facility in New York caught fire twice.”
That put U.S. automakers in a tough spot, especially since President Trump has imposed tariffs on imported aluminum. Ford was particularly hard-hit. The best-selling F-150 pickup has an aluminum body, and losing its key supplier caused for it up to $2 billion.
RFs on raw materials like aluminum armung, multiple factors pushing up costs for automakers and by extension car buyers Camila Dominozki and PR news. "A warming climate could mean hailstones will get large and do more costly property damage. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies is more." U.S. losses from hailstorms have increased fivefold since 2008, according to Victor Jinzini,
a professor at Meteorology at Northern Illinois University.
Last year, in the United States alone, hailed it 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. As those updrafts get stronger, it suspends these hailstones." But the bigger hailstones eventually come crashing down, Jinzini says, "Hail could get 75% larger as climate change continues.
For NPR News, I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio." "I'm Lakshmi saying NPR News." On June 11th, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup. The Super Bowl, and you might say, averages something over 100 million live viewers, but
“the World Cup final, I think like five times that much.”
The favorites, the underdogs, and the Americanization of the world's game.
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