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The U.S. military says it shot down several Iranian drones as they were heading toward the straight-up or mousse.
“NPR's carry-con reports both the U.S. and Iran say they're seeing progress in signing”
a preliminary peace deal." In a post-on social media, the U.S. Central Command says Iran launched what it called "multiple one-way attack drones to strike commercial ships in the vital waterway. U.S. forces shot all the drones, and that "traffic flow through the straight continues unimpeded according to St. Com. Meanwhile, Iran's foreign minister posted on social media
that a deal had "never been closer to being reached."
Pakistan's Prime Minister also signaled that the deal was nearly finalized. A senior Trump official also confirmed to reporters that the two sides were close, but added a bit of caution saying, "Most in Iran won't assign the deal, but quote not everybody, adding that Iran's system is very complicated." Carry-con and PR news, Tel Aviv.
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration's nearly $2 billion anti-weaponization fund.
“His NPR's Ryan Lucas reports the court said the move was necessary.”
At a court hearing on a lawsuit challenging the fund, U.S. District Judge Lee and he bring him a said the public statements from DOJ officials that the Department was abandoning the fund were not sufficient. She noted the President Trump continues to publicly support the fund, and that the government has refused to formally declare under oath that the fund is indeed dead.
Judge Brinkham had therefore issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund, but she gave the Justice Department one week to provide a clear, unambiguous declaration under penalty of perjury signed by the acting attorney general and the U.S. Treasury Secretary, that the fund will not move ahead. If it does so, the judge said she will likely dismiss the lawsuit.
If the government does not do so, then the case will move forward. Ryan Lucas and PR news Alexandria, Virginia. Stocks he solved this week, but all three major indexes ended higher, and PR Scott Horsley reports while streets not the only place where prices are going up. The week was marked by a couple of eyebrow-raising inflation reports,
consumer prices in May were up 4.2 percent from a year ago.
That's the biggest annual increase in more than three years. wholesale prices jumped more than 6 percent. Investors are concerned that stubborn inflation will prevent the federal reserve from cutting interest rates anytime soon. Fed policy makers hold their next rate-setting meeting next week.
SpaceX blasted off as a public company on Friday, the record-setting IPO raised tens of billions of dollars to help bankroll the company's ventures in spaceflight and artificial intelligence. For the week, both the Dow and the S&P 500 index rose about 2/3 percent, while the NASDAQ declined 7/10 percent. Scott Horsley and PR News was Washington.
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Shares of SpaceX jumped 19 percent in their Wall Street debut on Friday,
pushing the company's market value to about $2.1 trillion. The surge also made founder Elon Musk, the world's first trillionaire, Forbes estimates his net worth now stands at about $1.1 trillion. Heat can be dangerous for pregnant women. A new study looks at how certain proteins inside a pregnant body respond to heat,
and how that can affect both mother and fetus. NPR's Alejandro Berunda reports. One way body's deal with heat stress is to ramp up the production of molecules called heat shock proteins. Find a mentally their job is to protect the cell. That's Carrie Bretton. She's an environmental epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
“She says that's extra important during pregnancy when feeling too much heat can affect both”
mother and fetus. The new study in environmental science and technology shows that heat exposure ramped up the amount of protective heat shock proteins in most pregnant women's blood. But some women who developed lots of the proteins ended up having their babies early. It's a hint about why some pregnant people might be more sensitive to heat than others. Alejandro Brunda and Piano's oil prices fell by more than 3% this week.
Their lowest level since early March, gas prices are also easing the national average for a gallon of regular is down by about 40 cents from a month ago. The U.S. men's national team opened its world cup champion with a four to one win over Paraguay last night. The Americans next phase to Australia next week. This is NPR News. The world cup is back in the U.S. and the NPR network is covering the fans.
Detentions. When two teams take the field, their nation's histories take the field along side of 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.
