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President Trump says that the United States will launch heavier attacks on Iran tonight.
“He made the claim on social media this morning.”
The U.S. and Iran have been trading military strikes since the downing of a U.S. Apache helicopter Monday. President Trump blamed that on Iran, and Piers Daniel Kurtz-Labin has a latest. The president has continually made threats and pronouncements about the war on social media and this latest post-Amse up his rhetoric.
He wrote that the U.S. will be "hitting Iran," adding later in all caps, "very hard tonight." Trump also threatened to attack Carg Island, which is central to Iran's oil exports. However, Trump told Fox News this morning that the U.S. and Iran are still in talks. He added that he doesn't want to have boots on the ground, but that if he wants,
he could send in "a small group of soldiers." President Trump has said many times that an end to the war could come imminently.
“Earlier this week, he said an agreement to end the war could be coming within days.”
Danielle Kurtz-Labin and PR news the White House. The rising price of doing business is likely to put even more pressure on U.S. consumers and add to voter frustration this midterm election year. A new Labor Department report shows a producer price index in May rose six and a half percent from a year ago.
The Iran war is contributing to a fuel price surge that's largely driving inflationary pressures. And PR Scott Horsley is tracking the impact on the average consumer. Because of those high gas prices, a lot of people are having to cut corners elsewhere. Emily Inlow is a mother of two in Nicholasville, Kentucky. She says costs and driving distance have forced her to skip sending her 11-year-old son to
summer camp this year. It feels awful as a parent not being able to give these experiences to my kids that I find growing up.
“And it just feels like I'm not doing great as a parent, but we got to do what we got to do.”
In those five-year-old daughter is in daycare and nationwide daycare prices are also about three and a half percent. NPR Scott Horsley, riots continued overnight in northern Ireland after stabbing it in the capital Belfast earlier this week. The suspect in the attack is a refugee from Sudan.
NPR's Lauren Ferris has caused violence have been amplified online by far-right social media accounts. Masked men with hit lists and Molotov cocktails have been going door to door in parts of East Belfast, hunting for foreigners or people of color in what the United Kingdom's minister for Northern Ireland caused racist thuggery.
Billionaire ex-owner Elon Musk is one of those sharing anti-immigrant material online. Belfast police chief constable John Boucher urged people to ignore such posts. Stop listening to these idiots. We will be going after them. The excitement that they've been doing.
Charred homes and torched cars are reminiscent of what rival paramilitaries did to Belfast generation ago during three decades of Catholic Protestant conflict known as the Troubles. Lauren Freyer and PR News London. It's NPR. Elon Musk stands to become the world's first trillionaire.
Stocking his company SpaceX is expected that is to start trading publicly tomorrow under the ticker SPCX.
The company said in its June filing with the SEC it planned to sell more than $555 million
shares at a price of $135 each and raised $75 billion. The men's World Cup Soccer Tournament kicks off with an opening ceremony in Mexico City. The head of FIFA is defending high ticket prices. And PR's Becky Sullivan says this is the most expensive addition of the soccer tournament every stage.
Fans have accused FIFA of deceptive sales practices such as selling tickets with a desirable category one designation, then assigning those buyers to seats it would later advertise as being an illicit peeling tier. On Tuesday, Texas became the latest state along with California, New Jersey, and New York to open an investigation into those sales tactics.
And Fintino says lawyers vetted FIFA's practices and will make their cases needed. Becky Sullivan and PR News. Morgan Draetz have risen again the finance giant Freddie Mac fighting the average 30 year fixed rate.
Russes 6.52 percent higher than last week but still below where it was a year ago.
The rate on a 15 year loan is also higher averaging 5.84 percent. This is NPR News.
