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against Iran for a second-ninet in a row.
“Iran says it has responded by firing on U.S. military sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.”
The Pentagon says the U.S. operation started early today in the state of Hormuz. Four hours later, the Pentagon said the attacks were over. President Trump has complained that Iran is taking too long to negotiate a deal. He also said yesterday more attacks were coming if Iran did not reach an agreement. Three Indians sailors have died after U.S. forces fired on the vessel they were aboard
in the Gulf of Oman. India says this is the third vessel crewed by Indian sailors that the U.S. has targeted in recent days and P.S. Dia Hadid has more." In the most serious incident, U.S. Central Command said it had disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
The Palau flag said a bellow, it said the vessel was attempting to transport oil from Iran in violation of an American blockade. It was unclear if U.S. forces made any attempt to rescue the distress sailors or seek help for them. The Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Omani Rescue Crews saved 21 sailors
“from the vessel, another three sailors died.”
The Indian Foreign Ministry also summoned the American diplomat Jason Meeks to larger protest over the targeting of the ship. The Indians of Indian nationals work in the Gulf, while thousands work as commercial sailors in the Gulf area. At least 12 Indian nationals have died, or gone missing in the latest mid-East wall.
Dia Hadid and P.R. News. Analysts are reviewing yesterday's report on consumer inflation, consumer prices were up in May a little more than 4% compared to a year ago. And B.R. Scott Horsley says it's mostly due to fuel costs. The gas prices have risen sharply in the months since the U.S. and Israel launched their
war with Iran. Triple A's is the average price of gas today's about $4.13 a gallon. That's up about a buck 15 since the war began. And energy prices were the biggest driver of inflation in both April and May. N.P.R. Scott Horsley reporting.
“We're just hours away from the opening of the World Cup.”
N.P.R. is either parallel to reports the world's biggest sporting event kicks off in Mexico's city amid tension and celebration. 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 Estatio Steka, 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. Mexico will face off with South Africa for the opening match. It'll prompt up N.P.R. news, Mexico City. This is N.P.R. The National Park Service has reviewed the arch, President Trump wants to build near the
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The assessment says workers could construct the arch, working 20 hours a day, over three years. It would be 250 feet tall. Critics say the arch is a vanity project for Trump, and it's too close to the entrance
to Arlington National Cemetery. The co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates testified behind closed doors with the House Oversight Committee yesterday while makers questioned him about late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In prepared remarks, Gates said he'd never witnessed or knew about any of Epstein's crimes.
The artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, says accounts linked to China use the company's chat bond, chat GPT, to fan online criticism of data centers in the U.S. and Pierre Shannon Bond has more. OpenAI says the accounts were likely run by a private Chinese tech company working for provincial government clients in China.
Posing as Americans on social media, they posted AI-generated comments and images, highlighting electricity costs associated with data centers. OpenAI's lead investigator Ben Nemo says the campaign followed a familiar playbook. This looks like a classic example of a foreign influence operation jumping onto the bandwagon of a genuine and pre-existing domestic debate, and trying to manipulate it by using
fake accounts, posing as Americans. OpenAI says the social media posts didn't get much traction, and it has banned the accounts from using chat GPT. Shannon Bond and Pierre News. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, from Washington.
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