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President Trump says shipping through the state of Hormuz remains open despite a drone
“attack on a commercial vessel near Olmann on Thursday.”
Speaking from the White House yesterday, Trump said the continued flow of oil is a sign that global energy markets are stabilizing.
Yesterday, they took out 19 billion barrels of oil that's the most in the history of the
state and the oil prices are dropping like a rock, and you know, as goes oil so goes everything else including oil prices have dropped to their lowest levels in months as concerns over supply disruptions have eased. The Trump administration has announced $150 million in assistance for Venezuela after two powerful earthquake struck the country on Wednesday night.
NPR's fat metanus reports at least 235 people have died and thousands of others were injured. The state department says it's deploying search and rescue teams from Virginia and California to Venezuela to help locate survivors of the earthquake. The Virginia team will include 80 people and six dogs. Local authorities say they believe hundreds of people are still stuck under rubble.
“The 150 million from the U.S. is for aid groups and United Nations agencies.”
The state department is also enlisted help from the Pentagon for logistics and delivery of urgent medical and other supplies.
According to the UN nearly 8 million people in Venezuela were already in need of humanitarian
support as the country has been in deep political and financial crisis for many years. Fat metanus and PR news protesters gathered outside of the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday shortly after the justices had a down a decision that clears the way for possible mass deportations of people with temporary protected status. NPR's Emily Klong reports the ruling was a win for the Trump administration's immigration
agenda. Under the beating sun one word was repeated over and over again. House minority whip Catherine Clark joined half a dozen lawmakers in condemning the decision. At Clark side was fellow Massachusetts Democratic Congresswoman Ayana Presley, who had a message
“for the 1.3 million people historically protected by TPS.”
This spring, Presley led a discharge petition to force a vote on a bill to extend TPS for Haiti. It passed in the House similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate. Emily Klong and PR news. While fires continued to burn across parts of the Western U.S., and Utah, the cotton would
fire has become the state's largest scorching more than 70,000 acres. The blaze remains zero percent contained with strong winds expected to make conditions even more dangerous through the weekend. This is NPR. At the World Cup, the United States ended a group play with the loss to Turkey three to
two in the final seconds. Steve Futterman reports from Los Angeles. In the end, this defeat does not make much of a difference. The Americans knew last week they were on their way to the knockout round, and before this match they knew officially, who their first knockout round opponent would be, Bosnia
Herzegovina. The game was tied two to two until the final seconds when Turkey scored to win the match. The match against Turkey saw the return of U.S. star Kristen Policic. He missed the last game because of a calf injury. The first knockout match for the Americans takes place next Wednesday.
For MPR news, I'm Steve Futterman, in Los Angeles. The massive heat wave continues to grip much of Western Europe, temperatures have topped 104 degrees in parts of France, Italy's Spain, and the United Kingdom. Then a single owns a dry cleaning shop in South London. He says despite the oppressive heat, the work still has to get done.
"We have to finish the job, it doesn't matter how much, because people waiting there, the carmons and other things, and basically, we have a responsible, we have to finish on time." The new study finds the record-breaking heat would have been virtually impossible without climate change. Researchers say extreme heat like this is now about 200 times more likely than it was 20 years ago.
Stocks tumbled across Asia today as investors locked in profits after a strong rally in artificial intelligence shares, Japan and South Korea posted the steepest losses. This is NPR news. This is our glass on this American life when we like this good mystery. Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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