"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump has threatened more strikes on Iran in response to what he says are threats
“to assassinate him, but his NPR's Emily Fang reports both Iran and the U.S. say they're”
also open to resuming peace talks." Trump wrote on Troops' social that, quote, "One thousand missiles are locked and loaded in aimed at Iran should Iran try to act on what he says are threats to assassinate him and quote many corners of the globe, but in a separate earlier post, the president also wrote that the U.S. had agreed to resume talks with Iran.
This week, the U.S. launch strikes on dozens of sites across Iran after accusing Tehran of attacking ships in the street of Ramus. The U.S. has been pushing Iran to declare the straight open. Iran's Foreign Ministry's spokesperson blamed the U.S. for the recent escalation, saying
it was the U.S. who violated a ceasefire first, and that breaching commitments was an American
quote, "habit," Emily Fang and Pyrenees. In Texas hundreds of people gathered in Houston this morning for a vigil honoring Lorenzo Solgato Arajo, the man shot and killed during an icing counter earlier this week.
“I says the officer fired in self-defense, the other men in the car dispute the agency's”
account. At the vigil Salgato Arajo's son, Ronaldo repeated his calls for accountability and transparency. "I just want to continue the pressure to continue obtaining a full independent investigation." Democratic representatives, Christian Manify, Al-Grain, Lizzy Fletcher, and Sylvia Garcia echoed those demands.
"We will continue to fight, where a complete independent talk to bottom investigation, to find out exactly what happened." On Friday, Houston Mayor John Whitmire joined calls for an independent investigation, an asked the federal government to share evidence with the Harris County District Attorney's office.
From Pyrenees, I'm Bianca Seward, in Houston. The dangerous heat wave is building across the U.S. with triple-digit highs expected in the southwest and great planes this weekend, before it has east under a dome of high pressure,
“the forecasters say could trap high temperatures for a week or more.”
The heat dome is expected to affect as much as two-thirds of the country. Joe Wegman is a national weather service meteorologist. "A combination of hot temperatures in the 90s to low 100s with high humidity will create heat indices up to 105 to 110 degrees. If overnight temperatures only drop into the mid-70s to the low 80s."
The National Weather Service predicts that more than 90 degrees local temperature records will be broken or tied through Wednesday, with two-thirds of those being overnight heat records, the extreme heat is also helping fuel wildfires in the west. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Canada and the U.S. have agreed on a deal on a toll revenue for the new one-and-a-half
mile bridge connecting Detroit with Windsor, Ohio, or Ontario. President Trump had threatened to block the opening of the Gordie-How International Bridge and delayed its opening by a month over Trump's trade war with Canada. It's named after the famous Canadian Warren hockey player, but today Trump says the U.S. secured a much better deal, allowing the opening of the bridge to proceed that will happen
July 27th. While fires in Europe are continuing to burn with the most deadly blazes this past week in Spain, Villa Marx reports at least 12 people are dead, including four suspected British nationals and nearly two dozen people are missing. The severe wildfires are located in the country's Andalithia region, hundreds of firefighters
are working to contain the blaze that may have begun thanks to a downed power cable near the town of Al-Mereya. Temperatures in southern Europe have been above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks so far the summer with major wildfires in France and Portugal too, thousands of residents have been forced from their homes.
Across Europe officials have detected more than a thousand fires since the start of the year double the long-term average, and since January wildfires have earned almost 400,000 acres of land. The NPR news on Villa Marx. Linda Nose Cova has won the Women's Singles Wimbleton title, the beating Carolina Nose Cova,
625763, she's the third check woman and four years to win the grass court majors.
In the men's final tomorrow, Yannick Sinner will try to defend his title against French open chance Alexander Zverev. This is NPR. Being in a punk band, when he was just 11 years old, we broke up when I was 12. And yeah, I just felt like I needed to go through puberty without band drama.
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