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President Trump says there will be no U.S. strikes on Iran tonight.
“On social media Trump says he called off operations and that a p-steal is imminent.”
And Pierre's Daniel Kurtz-Lavin has more on this latest salvo in a series of whiplash proclamations from the president. "Just hours ago, President Trump had said the U.S. would hit Iran, quote, "very hard." But now in a post on social media, Trump says he's canceled the strikes as a result of talks with Iran.
He wrote, quote, "discussions and final points have been in both concept and great detail approved by all parties involved." He added that the U.S. is naval blockade of Iran will remain in effect until an agreement is signed. This week, the U.S. and Iran traded strikes after a U.S. helicopter was down to do the
straight-of-war moves. Trump has announced several times that a p-steal in the war was imminent, only for it not to materialize. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin and Pierre News, the White House, President Trump says he's nominating former securities in exchange commission chairman J. Clayton to be the next director
of national intelligence. If confirmed, he would replace acting DNI Bill Polty, who selection drew protests on capital Hill.
“The DNI position is entangled in efforts to reauthorize a key intelligence gathering”
tool known as FISA Section 702, which is set to expire tomorrow. That could limit U.S. abilities to monitor for potential security threats, just as the U.S. Canada and Mexico begin to host. The biggest ever FIFA World Cup tournament featuring a record 48 teams playing a record 104 games.
The first game of the world's largest sporting event kicks off this hour.
Mexico is playing South Africa in the legendary Estadio Azteca, NPR Zeta Paraltas watching the game. In the sokalo, that is the city's main square where many are using this time on the world stage to spotlight longstanding economic and social grievances ranging from teacher pay to cartel violence to government spending priorities.
The day here started with mass protests that choked traffic, and it made it hard for anyone to get anywhere. But Mexicans found a way and there is now sheer elation here, tens of thousands are gathered here, cheering their national team, historically the Mexican team has been nothing but disappointment,
“but here in the middle of this monopolist, there is nothing but faith.”
The rise in price of doing business in the U.S. is likely to put even more pressure on U.S. consumers and add to voter frustration this midterm election year. New Labor Department report shows the producer price index in May rose six and a half percent from a year ago. The PPI measures price changes businesses face before they reach customers.
The Iran war is contributing to a fuel price surge that's largely driving inflationary pressures. U.S. stocks are trading higher the sour with a Dow up 812 points.
The NASDAQ is at 452 points or nearly 2 percent.
This is NPR News. It's been a year since Air India flight 171 crashed NPR's Joel Rose reports on what investigators have found. 60 people were killed when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after it took off from a Metabod and its way to London a year ago.
In a preliminary report investigators said the switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were flipped from run to cut off about three seconds after lift off, causing the plane to lose thrust and altitude, but it's still not clear why. The pilots union is pushed back on what it calls the pilot suicide theory, and investigators are said to be looking into the engines as well.
Under international rules investigators are supposed to release a final report within the year of an accident if possible, but in this case they're expected to issue an interim report instead. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington. Large as Protestant denomination in the U.S. has moved to step closer to banning women
from serving as pastors, thousands of Southern Baptist vote in favor of the formal ban during an annual meeting in Florida. Here's NPR's Kristen Wright. The proposed amendment to the Southern Baptist Convention's Constitution specifies that only men should preach the word of God to the conservative evangelical congregations.
But advocacy group Baptist women in ministry put up a billboard near the meeting venue that says God calls women to pastor preach and minister, Reverend Meredith Stone is the executive director. "While they were hearing these negative messages from the XBC, they would also hear the proudest message that God values them equally, and that they should be equally valued
in the church." The final vote is planned for next year's meeting. Kristen Wright and PR News. This is NPR. You know, every day on up first NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring
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