"Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
conducted additional strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Saturday for violating
“the ceasefire agreement, and P.R. Shandali Stuster reports Tehran responded to the attacks”
by launching drone and missile strikes on U.S. military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait. The U.S. Central Command says his forces launch strikes against several Iranian military assets on Saturday. Those assets included Iranian air defense sites, communication systems, and drone storage facilities. Sintcom says the strikes were direct response to an Iranian drone attack on an oil tanker
transiting near the straight of Hormuz. Bahrain has also accused Iran of targeting it with drones. President Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that the U.S. may be forced to militarily complete the job. And if that happens, quote, "Aran will no longer exist." Late Friday, U.S. military forces targeted several Iranian military sites in response
to an Iranian drone attack Thursday on a cargo ship navigating the straight of Hormuz. Sintcom says commercial vessels are continuing to travel through the straight of Hormuz. Shandali's Duster and PR News. "Bards of Central and Eastern Europe remain in the grips of a dangerous heat wave.
“The temperatures have been set in Switzerland, the Czech Republic, and Denmark, while France”
and Italy remain under heat alerts. Zoe Bazel is a French tourist who is visiting Rome. She says she only leaves her hotel in the mornings and at night."
"I always have the fan all the time and we drink a lot of water because it's impossible.
It's really hard." Poorcasters say temperatures are beginning to ease in the UK, but much of continental Europe remains under extreme heat warnings. The state of emergency has been declared in Kentucky after torrential rain triggered widespread flooding across the state.
Carons are with member station WUKY reports the storms prompted multiple water rescues evacuations and left at least four people dead. "A small creek outside the city of Richmond, Kentucky, has swollen into a raging river, leaving a path of destruction, trees are broken in half, roads crumpled and buildings swept away.
Naomi Fox lives in Richmond."
“"The roads are completely flooded, manhole covers coming up out of the road because”
the water pressure so intense." Fox kneels in prayer behind her is what remains of Mogen Church, broken apart by the raging floodwaters. "Pray that they could restructure a rebuild and find a new home." Along with the emergency declaration, Kentucky's governor has activated the state's
price gouging protections. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr, in Richmond. "This is NPR News." Supergirl may be strong, but she's no match for Jesse, Woody, and Buzz Lightyear at the box office.
NPR's Bob Mandela reports it's another big win for Pixar, as Toy Story 5, dominates the theaters this weekend. "Superheroes have been having a rough time at the multiplex and the man of steel's anti-social cousin is no exception. "Morage and identify your people."
"Yeah, that's the same clerk. I have no people." "Supergirl is expected to sell about $40 million worth of tickets this weekend on the low-end of industry prediction." "This does not look like this is gonna end well."
"That total looks especially like Lester next to the $75 million second weekend of
Toy Story 5, which took in more than $200 million last week." "No way." "It would use for theater owners is that it's a strong weekend overall, because other films, including the low budget horror, flex obsession, and back rooms, and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, are still doing decent business," Bob Mandela and PR News.
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including the producers blazing saddles and young Frankenstein, Brooks says he was born to make people laugh, a mission that has spanned more than 70 years. This is NPR News in Washington." "This is our glass. On this American life, one thing we like is a good mystery, sometimes about really big
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