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"Live from MPR News," I'm Giles Snyder.

Iran is enjoying an unexpected windfall after the Trump administration lifted sanctions on the country's oil sales.

The move is expected on $0.00 billion for the regime in PR-shacking-orthom reports.

"Lifting long-standing sanctions on its oil exports was a key demand by Iran during recent

peace negotiations with the U.S. and could pull in between $8 and $10 billion for the regime while the agreement is in effect until August 21. President Trump defended lifting oil sanctions saying, "In exchange, Iran agreed to open the state of Formuz." Bob McNally, President of Rapa-Dan Energy Group says the President had little choice.

"This is a ransom payment for oil. The Iran to a core move's hostage, and we had to pay Iran to release the hostage." "There's been pushed back by Iran hawks who say the regime will use money from oil sales to build up its military and proxies in the region. Jackie Northam, NPR News."

Iran is warning oil tankers to use approved routes in the state of Formuz, or Facebook it said would be a "forceful response," Iran's joint military command issued that statement on state television Thursday is not clear what sparked it.

Washington D.C. district attorney Janine Piro says the man who is now facing a felony charge

for allegedly damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, acted intentionally. "Our evidence for those shows that the National Park Service employees observed hern, actually forcefully and violently pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands." Former Olympic canoe racer David Hern says he's no vandal that he simply reached into

the pool to examine a piece of the blue coating that had peeled. The Trump administration has spent millions in taxpayer money to renovate the pool, but the project has run into other problems as well, including an algae bloomed at turn-of-water green. For a castor's warning about that heat wave, the National Weather Service says the

extreme daytime heat will focus on the eastern U.S. through the independent state weekend, and is likely to set records. But as Imperial Scott Newman reports, experts say the warm nighttime temperatures are also a health concern. "Daytime highs are expected to reach into the 100s for parts of the mid-Atlantic, through

the end of the week. Ashley Ward, director of the Heat Policy Innovation Hub at Duke University's Nicholas Institute, says climate change is not only bringing hotter days, but hotter nights too. And that's worrisome, she says." "We're not getting the opportunity for recovery overnight."

Roughly, 35 million Americans do not have air conditioning installed in their homes, making

them more vulnerable to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Scott Newman and PR news. "This is NPR news." Tell a cast of the world cup are drawing record numbers of U.S. viewers for Fox Sports, and Piers Mandelito Barco reports that 48% are watching telebundos Spanish language coverage.

NBC Universal says no matter what language they speak, fans are tuning in to telemundous telecast, streaming it on peacock and viewing it's social media coverage of the Copa Mundial as it's known in Spanish. Miguel Lorenzo is a senior vice president at Delimundo de Bortez. Half of the country, for the United States, is watching the World Cup in Spanish on telemundo,

but we also know that only 20% of the U.S. population is Hispanic. Last night as the U.S.man's national soccer team knocked out Bosnia Herzegovina's team two-nil, Giuseppe Rojas, and her mother Graciela Reyes cheered along with Delimundo's famous announcer Andres Cantor.

"Yeah, that's always part for everybody, gooooo."

I think it's more fun to watch in Spanish.

"I'm nearly in percent. We like the excitement." Mandelito Barco and PR news Los Angeles. In World Cup, play Friday, Argentina, the reigning champions will play Cape Verde. The smallest nation by population ever reached the knockout round.

Argentina was star-playerly an al-Messie, our heavy favorites, but Argentina's head coach says he's not surprised to be playing around a 32 match against Cape Verde saying they are not here by chance. Major stock markets in Asia, rallying and Friday trading after the Delchones industrial average set of another record South Korea's benchmark is up more than 5%.

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