"Live from NPR news in Washington.
air strikes against Iran over the weekend, hitting dozens of Iranian targets yesterday
“after attacking about 140 others the previous day. U.S. Central Command says these latest”
attacks were meant to further degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping in the straight of Hormuz. NPR Shannon Bond has more." Iran fired at and disabled a commercial container ship passing through the straight of Hormuz on Saturday. It said ships were attempting to quote "travel along an unapproved route." Tehran said the straight is closed to transit entirely amid the latest round of hostilities with the U.S. But President Trump rejected
that claim speaking to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. "It's open. We bombed the hell out of 'em last night." U.S. Central Command says it's striking targets in Iran and retaliation to quote "continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the straight of Hormuz." Shannon Bond and Pernies. "No new U.S. attacks against
“Iran have been reported today. Oil prices moved higher after these latest strikes. A medical”
examiner says a Tehr in the Aorta appears to be what killed Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. He died over the weekend at the age of 71 hours after returning from a trip to Ukraine.
Graham served in Congress for more than three decades first in the house and then the Senate.
Luis Alfredo Garcia with South Carolina Public Radio says the state's governor must now appoint someone to fill Graham's Senate seat for the final months of his term. Graham had won the GOP primary for his seat just a month ago. Now, Republicans' South Carolina voters will have to choose among whichever candidate decide to enter the race. Republican Gary Simroll, the former South Carolina House Majority Leader, says choosing a
successor will be a daunting task. "We remain a state that is dependent on the federal government for many of the issues that we face in this state. Senator Rand delivered. We want the next person to be in that position." Governor Henry McMaster will pick someone to finish the term state law would place a special primary election around August 11th. For NPR news, I'm Luis Alfredo Garcia in Colombia, South Carolina. "Actor Sam Neal has died. He was
known for such films as Jurassic Park as well as the hunt for Red October alongside actor Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin. Neal's family did not give a cause of death but says the actor had battled a rare type of lymphoma. Sam Neal was 78. More extreme heat is moving into areas of the western and northern U.S., the National Weather Service has issued heat advisories and extreme heat warnings in nearly 2 dozen states from Utah and Idaho northward to Montana,
stretching across the Great Lakes states to New England. This is NPR news. As crews in the western U.S. continue battling large wildfires, evacuations are taking place in France. That's where a forest fire is burning south of Paris amid hot dry conditions there. The flames have forced people to leave their homes and disrupted train travel. That fire is burning in the fountain blue forest about 40 miles south of the French capital. It's still not
clear what sparked a deadly weekend fire at a pub in Thailand, at least 27 people were killed in Bangkok. Michael Sullivan has the latest. Prime Minister Anatin Chavitokun 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 and under an hour. Dozens of the injured patrons were brought to nearby hospitals. Friend PR News on Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai. They're down to the final 14s in the men's World Cup soccer tournament.
France will play Spain tomorrow in the tournament's first semi-final match. On Wednesday it'll be England taking on Lionel Messi and Argentina in the other semi-final. The winners will meet in the World Cup final on Sunday. I'm Dave Madingley NPR News in Washington. Every episode of its
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