Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The U.S. military says it's finished its latest strikes on Iran in a statement that said
“the attacks were aimed at reducing Iran's ability to damage shipping in the straight”
of Hormuz. As NPR's carry-con reports, the strikes are the latest in the string of attacks to begin after Iranian strikes Saturday in a commercial ship in the straights. "Sentcom, U.S. central command posted on X early this morning that overnight that it hit more than 140 targets in Iran, it said the U.S. hit drone launch sites and other military
infrastructure, naval capabilities, ammunition storage facilities. Iran then said it was sponded sending drones and missiles toward Gulf States hosting U.S. military base." That's NPR's carry-con. And a initial report from the Washington D.C. medical examiner says that Senator Lindsey
Graham died of a torn aorta.
The report says it was caused by long-term cardiovascular disease.
The aorta is the body's main blood vessel. The South Carolina Republican was 71 years old.
“NPR's Eric McDaniel pass more on our story.”
Emergency services personnel arrived at Graham's home in the evening Saturday. Dispatch audio reviewed by NPR indicated they found someone in cardiac arrest at Graham's home. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Senator Graham's office released a statement saying that the Senator had died of a brief and sudden illness.
The medical examiner statement shared by the office indicates that the cause of death will not be finalized into additional standard testing, including toxicology, is completed. Eric McDaniel and PR news. The world cup has led to the strongest consumer spending in June over the last four years in the U.S. that's according to credit and debit card spending data from Bank of America.
And PR's Steven Bassaha says, "Online sales also caused a boost." Consumer spending rose 6.3% in June from a year earlier. Part of that is because online sales, like Amazon's Prime Day, were a month earlier than last year.
“And then there's the World Cup, spending at restaurants and bars was up especially in”
host cities. And even beyond these one-off events, the Bank of America Institute Senior Economist David Tensley says, "Consumers are firing on all cylinders." That's right. I mean, we've had good spending growth in the economy really since the start of the year.
But that spending could slow down after the World Cup. Part of that is because despite wage growth being strong, consumer spending is rising faster than people's earnings. Steven Bassaha and PR news. A series of microburst storms hit Philadelphia Saturday afternoon residents there are continuing
their cleanup after trees and power lines were knocked down. In Westphilly, a building collapsed, sending bricks out into the street where they crushed cars and blocked trolley tracks. Part of a roof was also torn off a housing authority building. The National Weather Service says some of the microbursts produced winds of 60 to 70 miles
an hour in Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. You're listening to NPR news. Thailand's Prime Minister says the cause of a fire at a pub in Bangkok, Thailand overnight is still under investigation, at least 27 people were killed and dozens of others injured. Firefighters were not able to bring the blaze at a control until early Monday.
PR P and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen created an expert panel last year to come up with recommendations on how to limit harm done to children by exposure to the digital world. Now a new study on the issue will be released this week. As Terry Schultz reports, one of the options under consideration, is allowing the EU to
block children under 16 from using social media. The group's findings will be presented Monday and von der Leyen is expected to use their opinions to form her own legislative proposal by September. The Commission chief has expressed her personal concerns, blaming social media's business models for treating children's attention as a commodity and exploiting addictive design.
She's believed to favor an EU-wide ban on access for youth up to age 16. That model has enforcement problems in Australia, the first country to try it, but some EU governments are forging ahead anyway, including Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain. For impure news, I'm Terry Schultz and Brussels. The live action movie Moana didn't make the big landing that it was expected in its opening
weekend at the box office, but it did bring in $43 million of North American theaters. The Disney flick cost a reported $250 million to produce.
Minions and monsters landed squarely in second place with another 20 and a half million
dollars to add to its two week total, and Toy Story 5 finished in third, bringing in 18 and a half million. I'm Dale Wilman, N.P.R. News. Hi, it's Terry Gross, host of Fresh Air. Hey, take a break from the 24-hour news cycle with us and listen to long-form interviews
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