"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
in response to an Iranian attack on a civilian vessel in the street of her moves. And Iran
“says it's again closed the street after a ship using a quote unauthorized route was hit”
by a warning shot. This after President Trump said the ceasefire agreed to in the memorandum of understanding that was signed three weeks ago is over. "Ariyan Tabataba'yi is with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs." "You have a regime that is much more emboldened today, much less willing to make concessions and uphold them when it comes to the United States and is holding a grudge. And so on the
U.S. side you have a mercurial president who is also very keen to kind of react to whatever you see on the Iranian side. So this combo is bound to lead us to where we are as we speak." Speaking there on NPR's all things considered. The Justice Department has subpoenaed at least four journalists from the New York Times over the paper's recent reporting about possible security concerns involving Air Force One and aircraft donated by the Qatari government.
The Times reported President Trump left Turkey this week on the old Air Force One after
“the Secret Service intervened. And here's David Folkanflik reports. The subpoena's”
heightened the ongoing clash between the White House and the press. The Times says an FBI official initially asked the paper to hold off unpublishing and then asked for its sources. The Times refused. On Friday after publication, federal agents went to the homes of several of the journalists involved to deliver the subpoenas. The Justice Department and the FBI did not return requests for comment. David McCraw, a senior lawyer for the New York Times, called it "abrazen attempt
to intimidate reporters and the Times and to prevent the public from knowing how the government operates." The journalists had been instructed to appear before a grand jury next week. David Folkanflik and PR news. It was a mixed week on Wall Street as MPR Scott Horsley reports traders mostly shrugged off the renewed fighting in the strait and the effect on retail gas prices has been limited.
“Crew to all prices jumped after President Trump declared an end to the U.S. ceasefire with”
Iran, bond yields rose and so did mortgage rates. The average rate on a 30-year home loan is just under 6.5%. The National Association of Realtors says home sales dropped in June, which is ordinarily one of the busiest months for selling. The average sales price for home jumped to a record high, the more than $440,000. The Nasdaq got a boost on Friday
when shares the giant South Korean membership maker SK Heinix began trading there for the first
time. For the week that Nasdaq rose one and three quarters per cent, the S&P 500 index rose one and a quarter per cent, and the Dow Jones industrial average fell about 4/10%. Scott Horsley and PR news Washington. In men's world cup soccer, England is headed to the semi-finals after beating Norway tonight 2-1 in extra time. They play the winner of the Argentina versus Switzerland game on now. This is NPR. Canada and the U.S. have agreed
to a deal on toll revenue for a new one and a half mile bridge, connecting Detroit with Windsor Ontario. President Trump had threatened to block the opening of the Gori Hau International Bridge and delayed the opening by a month over Trump's trade war with Canada. It's named after the famous Canadian foreign hockey player, but today he says the U.S. secured a much better deal allowing the opening of the bridge to proceed that will happen at the end
of this month. In tennis newcomer Linda Nuskova has won the women's singles title at
Wimbledon. Biki Barker has more from London. Wimbledon's first all-check women's final turned
into unnailbider. 21-year-old Linda Nuskova dominated the first set, beating her one-time Olympic doubles partner 6-2. But the more experienced Carolina Mookava came from behind in the second set, winning that seven-five with an agonizing five missed championship points for Nuskova. But the Nuskova fall back in the third set, the final score was 6-2-7-5-6-3. The match was played under blistering hot skies before 15,000 tennis fans, including
the Princess of Wales. The Czech Republic is a rising superstar in the world of tennis. Nuskova is the third of her country women to win Wimbledon in four years, for NPR News. And in the men's singles final tomorrow, Yonic Center faces Alexander's fair rev, and he will try to defend his title. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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