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Congress passed a bipartisan bill last week designed to make housing more affordable, but
President Trump refused to sign it into law until Congress approves the Save America Act. Legislation to impose a voting restrictions that does not have bipartisan support. How speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News today, "He thinks the President will change his mind." "I'm going to send the bill over to him, it's passed by both chambers.
I'm sending it to him on Monday and it will become law, and I certainly want to take the biggest boldest marker that he has and do that big Trump signature proudly on
“that legislation because we're delivering for the people and that's what he wants to do."”
But if the President still doesn't sign it, it would become law in 10 days without his signature as long as Congress is in session. Several large wildfires are burning across the Western United States.
Three firefighters were killed in Colorado yesterday.
Colorado Public Radio, Steena Sig reports two other firefighters were injured in a blaze that's grown to more than 40 square miles. The U.S. wildland fire service has released few details on the deaths, and says it's focused on supporting the loved ones of the firefighters. They died in a rugged rural area along the Colorado Utah border, where many smaller fires have
merged into one. Governor Jared Polis has declared a state of emergency. farther south, another Colorado wildfire forced evacuations enclosed a vital highway Saturday. Much of the state is facing elevated fire risk and is in the major drought, following its
“lowest mountain snowpack level on record.”
From here news, I'm Steena Sig, in Grand Junction, Colorado. Iran carried out a series of drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait overnight, responding to a new round of U.S. air strikes on Tehran, speaking through a BBC interpreter, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Kauranki called on all parties to abide by the memo of understanding signed with the U.S.
"How did one of the hundred that enamored?" Any attempt to adopt new or separate arrangements from those currently being implemented by the Islamic Republic of Iran will only complicate the situation. Delay the reopening of the state of Hormuz and raise the level of tension. As we witnessed over the past two nights with incidents in the state of Hormuz that let
to increase tensions and clashes. I urge all parties not to interfere in the management of the state of Hormuz or in the arrangements being made by the Islamic Republic of Iran to reopen the state. Iran says any challenge to its control of the state of Hormuz will jeopardize the reopening.
“Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said today Ukrainian drones struck Russia's oil and military”
infrastructure again in an effort to reduce Russia's ability to continue its war against Ukraine now in its fifth year. This is NPR News. The search continues in Venezuela for more than 68,000 people reported missing after twin earthquakes last week, more than 1400 people are confirmed dead, more teams from overseas
have joined rescue efforts. Comedian Mel Brooks is celebrating a major milestone today, NPR's Bob Mandelo has details. He's turned 100 which still makes him a spring chicken mix of the character he and Carl Reiner made famous.
2000 years old. That's true, sir. Yes, you want to see my driver's license? 2000 year old man had seen it all, and so had Brooks in his movies. In history of the world part one, he was Moses.
10, 10 commandments he played the lead in his spoof of vertigo and even saying the title song. And after creating Getsmart for TV, writing and directing 11 feature films and turning two of them into Broadway musicals, the hundred year old Mel Brooks has another movie on the way.
Baseballs, the new one, is just by the old one, but it's newer. For that, in 2027, Bob Mandelo and PR News NASA is planning a mission to keep an aging telescope from crashing to earth. The Swift Observatory launched in 2004 has been sinking faster and faster because of intense solar activity.
NASA will send a space robot to boost it into a higher, more stable orbit. The robots about the size of a small refrigerator has three arms with finger-like pinching grippers. It could be launched as early as this week and reached the telescope in about a month. I'm Nora Rom and PR News in Washington.
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