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President Trump says there will be no U.S. strikes on Iran tonight," he says he called
off operations. He also says, "As he has before that a peace deal is imminent," and P.R.s. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin has more on the 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 peace deal in the war was imminent, only for it not to materialize. Danielle Kurtz-Lavin and P.R. News, the White House. President Trump has named Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence last
week he named another man to serve as acting intelligence chief, and the ensuing fallout
“led to the looming lapse of a key spy tool in PR's Eric McDaniel reports.”
Jay Clayton is a lawyer and federal prosecutor. He also served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It's unclear at this point whether Bill Polty, named by Trump to serve as DNI and an acting capacity will still do so. In fact, Democrats sank the renewal of spy legislation that allows the government to collect
the communications of hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals located outside of the U.S. each year. In large part, because they didn't trust Polty to oversee the program, as well as other aspects of more than a dozen intelligence agencies. The program is due to lapse tomorrow, but intelligence gathering under the tool will continue
under the existing authorization, Eric McDaniel and P.R. News Washington. A new labor department report shows the producer price index last month 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 and PR's Scott Horsey's 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 the summer campus here. 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. And P.R. Scott Horsey reporting U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed. That's the natural warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather around the globe.
It's likely to be a major factor in extreme and deadly weather across the planet for the next year or so. This one is expected to rival the record and costly 1997 to 1998 El Nino. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A memo from U.S. health regulators is raising questions about a decision to authorize
fruit-flavored e-sigarettes.
“A new report from the FDA says adding flavors like mango and blueberry didn't help smokers”
quit when compared with tobacco flavored vapes.
The decision marked a first for the agency and has been heavily criticized by health groups
and lawmakers. Testing delays are partly to blame for the size of the Ebola outbreak, as NPR's Jonathan Lambert explains, testing capacity has improved, but may not be enough. For about a month before the current Ebola outbreak was declared, tests kept turning up negative.
It turned out the most common testing machine couldn't detect the species of Ebola that was spreading. That delay allowed the virus to spread undetected. Obdi Mahamood, director of health emergency alert and response at the World Health Organization, says the situation is somewhat different now.
"The diagnostic capacity has improved significantly from well we were three and a half weeks ago." In part, that's because of the arrival of a testing machine that can detect Bhundavujo. It's currently in use across seven labs where Ebola is spreading, but Mahamood worries that if cases continue to climb, there may not be enough testing machines to meet demand.
Jonathan Lambert and PR news. A federal judge in Mississippi has removed lawyers from a contractual dispute after discovering both signs used AI to draft legal briefs, according to the Mississippi Free Press. The filings included hallucinations. Legal sources generated by AI out of thin air.
The judge barred two of the lawyers from appearing before the northern district of Mississippi courts for two years. They're listening to NPR news from Washington. The fatal shooting of a teenager at a protest in Seattle has gone unsolved for six years. "This is open in your base to how are there no answers."
Our investigation has uncovered new evidence and witnesses who say they've never talked
to police. "Did police ever call you? Not once." Listen to Wiki Buzzsafe, a new true crime series on the embedded podcast from NPR.
