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new military strikes on Iran hours after threatening to escalate the war.
“He says a P steel will be in place within the next few days.”
Trump has said several times before that the war is ending, but insists this time is different. They've taken a pounding. They've taken a pounding like very few people could take, and they want to make a deal a lot more than I do, and we couldn't have done the other way against, but it wouldn't
have taken longer. Earlier today, Trump threatened major strikes and to seize control of Iran's oil and gas industries, as escalating attacks pushed the Middle East closer to a full-scale war. Trump told Fox News that while he would prefer to take over Iran's carguer island oil terminal, he wasn't sure, quote, "America has the stomach for it."
President Trump is floating a meeting with top AI executives to discuss how the public could share in the wealth created by the industry, NPR's Windsor Johnston reports. President Trump has suggested AI companies should find ways to give back to the public while some Democrats argue the benefits should extend beyond the companies and investors driving its development.
“Helen Nismbaum, a professor at Cornell Tech, says she's not convinced that government”
ownership would automatically benefit the public. "Maybe the Treasury Department will benefit, but how does that return to the rest of us?" It isn't. Some AI companies are raising similar concerns. Open AI has proposed a public well-fun tie-to-AI profits, and Thropic has called for
policies to help workers if the technology displaces jobs on a large scale. Windsor Johnston and P.R. News, Washington. "Hi, inflation has not stopped U.S. households from spending the Bank of America Institute reported credit and debit card spending was up 5.1% in May from a year earlier and P.R. St. Bassaha has more."
Even if you take gas out of the equation, spending was up 3.9%. Consumers also bought more tickets to fly, despite airfare being up 27% from last year. David Tinsley is senior economists at the Bank of America Institute, and he says the spending is continuing despite economic tailwinds from inflation.
“"Always to a surprising extent, most consumers are wafering those."”
But there are some tension points for lower-in-middle-income households. "They're spending growth, is actually running still a little bit ahead of their wage growth." Meaning some consumers have to make that up in other ways, like cutting it to how much they're saving, or what savings they have. Steven Bassaha in VR News.
A massive UFC event is set to take over the White House's south lawn this weekend. The temporary arena includes a towering structure of lights, speakers, and wiring called the claw. The event celebrates President Trump's 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
The National Park Services contesting a lawsuit to block it, UFC is paying the $60 million
cost. This is NPR News. The opening of a bridge across the Detroit River from Canada to the U.S. that President Trump previously threatened to block has been delayed, the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority says a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed, quote, "to resolve
any outstanding issues." The Gordi Howe International Bridge is jointly owned by Canada and Michigan, and was expected to open to traffic later this month. Federal forecasters say the cyclical weather pattern El Nino has officially begun, and as NPR's Nate Rot reports, it could be one of the strongest on record.
El Nino is a periodic weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, that can cause major shifts in global weather patterns, bringing hotter temperatures and more extreme weather to many parts of the world. The National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration says there's a 63% chance it becomes a very strong event.
What some scientists call a "super El Nino" over the coming months. Forecasters warn it's impossible to predict how the shifting weather will play out exactly, the previous research has shown that El Nino's can exacerbate drought in some areas while bringing torrential rains to others. Further complicating forecasts is global warming, and how El Nino plays out on top of
an already rapidly warming planet. Nate Rot and PR News A man said to be the last child of a Union Civil War veteran has died, according to "Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War", William Poole of Bolivar Missouri died at age 101, Poole's father Charles Parker Poole served in the 6th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry
Regiment. He was 80 years old when William Poole was born in 1925. This is NPR News from Washington. This is our glass. On this American life, when they were like, "It's a good mystery."
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