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The U.S. and Iran have been trading attacks this weekend as both countries fight for
control of the straight of Hormuz.
“The latest fighting began when Iran attacked a commercial vessel Saturday in the”
straight. The U.S. responded with a series of attacks including one early Monday. Those attacks were followed by Iranian strikes on several Middle Eastern nations. Oil prices meanwhile have opened the week higher after several days of attacks between the two countries.
Tehran says the fighting has rendered recent diplomatic efforts feudal. The BBC's Barbara Platt Usher has more. The battle over control of the straight of Hormuz has stalled movement towards ending the wider conflict. Iran pledged to open the straight according to the terms of its interim deal with Washington.
But it has been firing on commercial vessels, it says, are using an unauthorized route. The U.S. military says its latest round of strikes has continued to degrade Iran's ability to attack international shipping and it insists that traffic is still able to flow through the straight. The Trump administration needs that to happen to bring oil prices down ahead of mid-term
elections in November. Attempts by mediators to resolve the dispute at the weekend failed and it's clear how
“important control of the straight is to Iran.”
More important than dozens of atomic bombs senior Iranian officials have said. The BBC's Barbara Platt Usher. Men's and colleagues of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham continue to speak out after the Republican lawmaker died late Saturday. In a post on social media, New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker said that despite
their political differences, Graham had a positive influence on his life. "My prayers are with his family and all those who loved and cherished him. I will miss my perhaps most unexpected friend in the Senate." The medical examiner in Washington, D.C., said Graham, "Died at home from a ruptured aorta."
The Memphis Task Force is under scrutiny after two deadly officer-involved shootings in a week. The Task Force is designed to make the city safer, President Trump formed the Task Force last fall, and it includes a mix of national guard, local police, and federal agents. Mariana Bakayev, Member Station, WPL, and reports.
“A D.A. agent with the Task Force fatally shot a 47-year-old man last week.”
Just days after Tennessee guardsman fatally shot a 20-year-old. These shootings, along with three others, are still under investigation by the state. Memphis District Attorney Stephen Mulroy points to the way officers are trained for the Task Force. In training she observed, Mulroy says "Instructors mock the concept of de-escalation and reference
the prosecution of the officers accused of killing George Floyd and Eric Gardner as witchhunts. Other Tennessee D.A.'s have rejected Mulroy statement, saying it undermines prosecutors and law enforcement to promote a political ideology. For NPR News, I'm Mariana Bakayev, in Nashville." And this is NPR News.
Officials still don't know what happened when a fire in a pub and Bangkok late Saturday night killed at least 27 people, Michael Sullivan reports from Thailand. Prime Minister Anatin Chavitakun told reporters that the cause of the fire is still under investigation. But a musician at the site told local media that the lights briefly went out before there
was a sudden explosion and then the blaze.
Video shared online by some of the first to arrive show huge flames billowing from the front
door of the pub in Bangkok's Chattu-Chic neighborhood, as many patrons inside attempted to flee out the back. Local media says many of the deceased were found huddling in or near the bathrooms in the back. Firefighters were able to bring the blaze under control in under an hour.
Dozens of the injured patrons were brought to nearby hospitals. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai." Senator Mitch McConnell says a fall put him in the hospital for weeks ago. In the state, many said he was reluctant to explain what happened because it meant what he called "sharing the vulnerability that comes with growing older."
The 84-year-old Republican says he still not returned to the Senate, but that he is working with his staff on Senate Business.
Yannick Sinner won his second consecutive Wimbledon Sunday with the four-set win over Alexander
Zvarev, 677-766-364. He was sinner's 5th overall grand slam win, it was also his 10th-strate victory over Zvarev. Wimbledon was Sinner's first tournament since a meltdown at the French Open just over a month ago. That tournament was won by Zvarev.
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