"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
The Jordanian army says its intercepted eight missiles launch from Iran.
“This comes after the U.S. and Iran traded strikes for as second-stray day after President”
Trump declared the ceasefire was over. NPR's Hadil al-Shanti reports Iranian officials say 14 people were killed in the U.S. attacks. Syrians blared in Jordan and officials told residents to take shelter after missiles were detected on their way to Jordanian airspace. The Jordanian army said it shot down the missiles.
There were no casualties. Jordan is a close U.S. ally and many missiles aimed at Israel, passed through Jordanian airspace. The latest exchange of strikes between the U.S. and Iran began on Wednesday after the U.S. accused Iran of attacking commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran responded by targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain.
While President Trump said the ceasefire was over, he didn't rule out further talks with Iran to permanently end the war. Hadil al-Shanti and PR news is done.
“Just three weeks after praising Iran's leaders as rational and open to diplomacy, President”
Trump is now calling them "skum" and accusing them of breaking their word. The stars shipped in rhetoric is raising new questions about the administration's approach to the war. And PR's Franco Erdogan says it fits a familiar pattern. Whether it's announcing the war is over or almost over when it's clearly not to dramatically
swinging between praise and threats over the course of a few hours. I mean, it's really like these different faces of the same President trying to "will this war to an end." And you can almost hear really hear Trump struggling with that balance, even telling reporters later insisting that the war will not start again.
That's NPR's Franco Erdogan's reporting. Stunks on Wall Street opened a higher this morning as retail gasoline prices in Chup.
“NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average rose by about 63 points in early”
trading. Triple A says the average price of regular gas is now $3.84 a gallon. That's up about a nickel overnight amid renewed fighting around the Strait of Hormuz. Gas prices are still well below their wartime peak, but about 86 cents a gallon higher than they were before the war began.
The National Association of Realtors says home sales dipped last month sales of existing
homes in June were down 2.4 percent from the previous month.
The average selling price, top $440,000. People who own John Deere tractors will soon be able to repair their equipment without having to go to an authorized dealer, Deere and Company agreed to supply customers with tools and diagnostic software as part of a right to repair settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington.
Stocks continue to trade higher on Wall Street this morning. The Dow was up 68 points, then NASDAQ up 165. The S&P 500 also trading higher up 32 points. This is NPR News. President Trump's name will stay off the Kennedy Center for now.
A Federal Appeals Court has refused to allow the administration to put it back while the legal challenge moves forward. Trump's name was removed from the building in June under a lower court order. The administration is continuing to appeal that decision. Two 15-year-olds were allegedly drinking alcohol and shooting toy guns from a driverless
waymo car in California, NPR's John Lewis reports the company called the police. A Facebook post by the San Mateo County Police Department started like this. Parents do you know where your teens are, wemo does, wemo driverless cars have an array of cameras inside and out and after seeing the teens drinking and handling the toy guns, the company stopped the car and called the police.
The police department said they detained the teenagers and found that they had been shooting spongy water beads called orbees as they "sipped on afternoon libations while being showford around town in the driverless vehicle." The police said the shooting and the drinking were bad ideas, but taking a wemo was the one smart thing they did because driving impaired would have made things much worse.
John Lewis and PR News The World Cup quarterfinals can underway today with France facing Morocco. Spain needs Belgium on Friday followed Saturday by Norway against England and Argentina taking on Switzerland. The winner's advanced to next week's semi-finals as the tournament enters its final stages.
Alostrita Dowweb 66 points at the power the NASDAQ 167. This is NPR News in Washington.
