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Iran launched missile and drone strikes on U.S. military targets and Bahrain and Kuwait Saturday. U.S. officials have acknowledged the strikes but they have so far been no reported casualties. The strikes were in response to U.S. attacks on Iran earlier Saturday. The U.S. Central Command says 10 targets including missile and drone storage sites and coastal
radar facilities were hit, Paul Salem is with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It says the attacks will not undo the memorandum of understanding, signed by the U.S. And Iran earlier this month."
“The MOU itself, I think, in broad strokes, I believe is going to move forward and the”
broad strokes really are opening the streets of Hormuz, albeit under some Iranian control. The U.S. already largely lifting its blockade on Iran, easing global energy and trade markets and entering into nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and Iran and touring those stocks. I think those things are achievable.
The major heat wave hitting Europe this weekend is continuing to move eastward on Sunday.
Saturday, Germany hit a record high temperature for the second day in a row and now authorities
are urging people across the region to save water, Esmundikelson reports. According to preliminary readings, temperatures in Germany have exceeded 106 degrees Fahrenheit again. This time in the eastern half of the country, National Railway Operator Deutsche Bahn is warning that its infrastructure is struggling with extreme sun exposure and one of Germany's
busiest highways near Hamburg shut down after the asphalt buckled in the heat.
“The shade typically given by the capital's oak trees is out of bounds as authorities struggle”
to contain a plague of toxic caterpillars. Based in the capital of patrolling the city with two water cannons, usually deployed during riots to help people cool down. For MPI News, I'm Esmundikelson in Berlin. Experts say that extreme fire weather conditions are expected to continue across much of the
southwestern U.S. throughout this weekend. Red flag warnings are up in several western states and as NPR's Nate Rahth reports, that includes part of southern Utah, where the largest fire underway in the nation right now is currently burning. Firefighters on the cottonwood fire near Beaver, Utah saw historic conditions Friday.
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued its first ever particularly dangerous situation, red flag warning due to a combination of high winds, temperatures and low humidity. The conditions forced firefighters to temporarily disengage from some parts of the fire and grounded aircraft.
“Red flag warnings are forecast in six southwestern states, including most of Utah through”
Saturday, Sunday is expected to see a little reprieve with cooler, less windy conditions to follow into next week, Nate Rahth and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. Drones and artillery attacks killed people on both sides of the Russia Ukraine border Saturday.
Local officials say Ukrainian drone killed two people in their car in the border region of Breansk, Russia's military says 124 other drones were downed, and in Ukraine, it's out near the Russian-held's apparition nuclear power plant, was hit by drones in artillery fire, killing one person.
New federal data, show five million people have dropped their healthcare dot-gov coverage
this year. That's happened at least in part because President Trump and Republicans in Congress let premium cost double on average this year, and PR Salena Simmons-Duffin has our reports. Last year, 24 million people picked an Obamacare plan, a record high. Now the number of people enrolled has no stived to 19 million, according to data from
the Department of Health and Human Services, 4 million people dropped their ACA plans since January. That's on top of more than a million people who didn't even pick a plan. Both policy experts predicted people would drop their plans this year because premiums cost much more than they did last year.
The Trump administration quietly posted the enrollment drop on a webpage Friday evening. Salena Simmons-Duffin and PR News, Washington. Mel Brooks turns 100 on Sunday Brooks is a legendary actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He's served in the Army in World War II and began performing on the Borske Belt, which was a haven for mostly Jewish families in New York's Catskill region.
He's known for his comedy-movings from blazing saddles to young Frankenstein. He's one of 22 entertainers to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This is our glass. On this American life, when they me like, is a good mystery.
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