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The U.S. military tonight said Iran launched multiple attack drones at commercial ships
“in the Strait of Hormuz, and that the U.S. downed all of them.”
This, as President Trump has said once again, a peace deal with Iran is close. NPR's Deepashivaram reports a senior Trump administration official says the agreement could be finalized in the coming days." The official who was not authorized to speak publicly says the U.S. and Iran are about
80 to 85 percent of the way to an agreement, but nothing is finalized.
It comes after days of back and forth from Trump, who relaunched attacks on Iran this week, after saying a peace deal would come within two to three days. The U.S. officials says the deal would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the blockade there, and it would end Iran's nuclear program and work on a performance-based model with incentives for Iran.
The official says they expect U.S. allies, including Israel, to get on board with the peace agreement.
“Iran's foreign minister posted on social media saying an agreement has "never been closer."”
Deepashivaram and Piano is the White House. Elon Musk's company SpaceX had a banner day on its stock market debut, and does and appears John Ruich reports it's made Musk the world's first trillian air. Some experts say it's overvalued, though. The company has a unique tow-hold in rocketry and satellite communications, and it's
also involved in artificial intelligence, but it lost $5 billion last year, and another
4 billion in the first quarter of this year.
SpaceX doesn't lack for ambition, it wants to put people on Mars, but it's path to profitability is unclear, John Ruich and PR news. A rare and deadly strain of Ebola is spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with nearly 700 confirmed cases and more than 100 deaths. Livingstone reports from Bunya, the true picture is likely "much worse."
“All appears calm on the streets of Bunya, a city of over 1 million people in a”
Tory province in eastern Congo. But the easy atmosphere belies the ongoing crisis. Handwashing stations have sprung up everywhere, and in a central plaza, a screen blurs a video explaining Ebola symptoms on loop. On 185 cases have been recorded in the city, but there is active transmission in the rural
hinterland to, according to the latest government figures, confirmed cases have been recorded in over half of a Tories' health firms. No one knows the true number of people infected, aid workers say that many people are choosing to stay at home if they develop symptoms, which is complicating the response. For NPR news, I'm Emmett Livingstone in Bunya.
This is NPR news. Tonight, Trump announced the lethal strike on the alleged leader of Venezuela and Gang, a Penteo Rangua known as Nino Guerrero, an action Trump says was coordinated with Venezuela. Enthrop is as it has taken its latest AI models known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline to comply with the directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign
nationals. The export controls marked the U.S. government's most significant step to date to restrict access to the most advanced AI models. Even in the U.S. are having fewer babies and a new paper suggests, smart phones may be partly responsible, and Pierscott Horsley reports the birth rate has tumbled more than
20 percent since the iPhone was introduced.
Social scientists have been puzzled by the persistent drop in birth rates over the last two decades. At first, they thought it was a temporary response to the great recession, but even after the economy bounced back, births did not. So the Economist Katelyn Myers, a Middlebury college, went looking for other explanations.
When we looked for the candidates, we should be looking for things that were large shocks that started around 2007 and are affecting a lot of people. When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, service was initially limited to AT&T. By comparing birth rates and areas with and without AT&T coverage, Myers found a strong link between smartphone penetration and fewer babies.
Scott Horsley and Pierre News, Washington. In its first home World Cup in 32 years, the US beat Paraguay in Southern California, the final score, 4-1, the game opened with an own goal by Paraguay. This is NPR News. The world cup is back in the US, and the NPR network is covering the fans.
The tensions. When two teams take the field, their nation's histories take the field alongside them. The local transformations, just world-class soccer right here, and of course the games. Follow along on and off the pitch with the NPR app.
