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three oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman this week. U.S. Command says the latest stop happened yesterday when a tanker crew with Iranian oil did not follow directions from U.S. forces and evaluated the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports. The ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is fragile. The U.S. has fired on sites in Iran for the second nine in a row.
Iran says it fired on U.S. sites in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. Retired U.S. General Joseph Hotel, formerly led U.S. Central Command.
He says the latest U.S. strikes included powerful missiles.
“"I think one of the things we've seen in the last 24 hours is that these tomahawk strikes,”
some of these were impacting relatively close to Tehran, which, again, is really focused on sending a very, very clear message. So there's a lot of things we can do, but my concern would be mostly on their ability to, you know, create an unsafe environment in the streets of our most." He spoke to NPR's morning edition.
Economists say the war with Iran continues to push up consumer prices in the U.S. The Labor Department says prices were up 4.2 percent in May compared to the same time a year ago. And Piers Windsor-Johnston says that's the highest inflation rate in three years. Higher energy costs are already rippling through the economy.
Economist Mark Sandi says they're pushing up the price of everything from gasoline to groceries and other consumer goods. "Any manufacturer product that will start to feel it in higher prices in a not too distant future?"
“I suspect if prices stay roughly where they are, you know, we're going to be suffering”
through higher inflation through this time next year. Sandi estimates the average household has paid more than $500 in added energy costs since the conflict with Iran began four months ago. That alone is more than the roughly $350 many families received in tax relief this year. Windsor-Johnston and PR News
"A Minnesota Man accused of killing a top democratic state lawmaker and her husband is due in federal court this morning. He is expected to plead guilty. From Minnesota Public Radio Matt Sepic reports, the plea hearing comes three days before the anniversary of the attacks."
Investigators say "Vance Belter killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark at their suburban Minneapolis home at 3.30 a.m. last June 14th while disguised as a police officer."
“90 minutes earlier he allegedly shot and wounded state Senator John Hoffman, also a Democrat”
and his wife, Evette, and tried to shoot their daughter hope. Belter, whose 58, is expected to face life in prison with no possibility of parole after the Justice Department said it would not seek the death penalty. For NPR News, I met Sepic in Minneapolis. "And you're listening to NPR News from Washington."
Authorities in Chicago say a burning cross was left in the city's iconic grant park on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was extinguished, there were no injuries. Chicago police have now released two photos of a person of interest in the case. Most burnings in the U.S. are linked with racial violence and the Ku Klux Klan, Chicago
has a large black community. For the first time in a decade and a half, the number of people displaced by war has dropped, and beer's Michelle Kalman reports that's according to the UN Agency, the Tracks Refugees. There was a bit of good news in the report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner
for Refugees, the number of people displaced by war, went down from over 123 million to
just under 118 million. Jeremy Kanandai, who runs the advocacy group called Refugees International, says these gains are ten U.S. "We still have the same fundamental problem that we've had for almost 20 years now that the world has just gotten pretty bad at ending conflicts."
UNHCR says 14.7 million people returned to their homes in the past year, many under pressure to go back to Afghanistan, many also returned to Syria, which is still emerging from a devastating civil war, Michelle Kalman, and BR News, the State Department. The mayor of a town in the southern Philippines is calling for air drops of food. The region was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake on Monday, nearly 50 people were killed,
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