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The U.S. is tightening control over the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks by
“both Iran and the U.S. and PR's Hedil Al-Shalchee reports.”
In a post online, President Trump said that the U.S. would be "reinstating a blockade on Iranian ships or customers from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz. He said that the U.S. will now be known as "the Guardian of the Hormuz Strait." Trump said that other countries will be able to move through the waterway, but that the U.S. would charge a 20% toll on cargo.
He said the toll was the price to pay for providing security and safety for this "volatile section of the world." Up until now, the U.S. has been against any tolls or fees being enforced on ships moving through the Strait, Iranian leaders said Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Hedil Al-Shalchee and PR News, Istanbul.
President Trump's National Guard deployments have not reduced urban crime in the city's where troops have been sent, according to a new study out today from the Progressive Center for American Progress. That's as several of those deployments are still ongoing, including in Washington, D.C. as NPR's Cat Lonstor reports.
“National Guard members are currently deployed in D.C. Memphis and New Orleans, all as part”
of broader efforts by President Trump to fight crime in those cities. The crime was already trending down in all of those cities before Trump took office in 2025 and before those deployments began. Those trends have continued, and the study found they would have likely continued without the presence of the National Guard.
The total cost of these deployments have extended through the end of 2026 will exceed $1.7 billion, according to an estimate from the non-partisan congressional budget office. The number of troops in D.C. recently doubled, to more than 5,100, as part of a federal quote, "summer surge of law enforcement." Cat Lonstor, M.P.R. News, Washington.
A new pool on healthy aging finds that a majority of older adults have not heard of the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, 98, as NPR's Retouchative Reports, older adults, especially those aged 75 and older, have the highest rate of suicide in this country. The National Poles surveyed more than 2,000 American adults aged 50 and over.
More than a third said they had never heard of any mental health crisis line.
Two thirds had never heard of 98, which connects people to a trained mental health counselor. Psychologists Kevin Sonnier, at the University of Michigan, is one of the researchers on the poll. "When asked about who they would reach out to in response to a mental health crisis, the respondents rated family friends, the most likely source of support followed by the regular
healthcare providers and mental health providers and then crisis lines." When informed about 98, 75% then said they'd at least feel somewhat comfortable in contacting the number, retouchatogy and PR news. You're listening to NPR News live in Washington. Researchers in Senegal are adding thousands of fish to rice farms this growing season,
as NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, their studying whether the fish can do three things, prevent a debilitating disease, boost rice yields, and increase income. A disease called Shisto-Semiasis can be an occupational hazard for rice farmers in Senegal. It's spread by a parasite that lives in freshwater snails and can infect farmers in their fields.
Farmers can experience stomach pain, bladder issues, fatigue, even cancer. Researchers are trying to see if adding some large snail-eating fish to rice fields might help prevent the disease by removing its source. They're also adding hundreds of tolopia to the fields. The tolopia might eat some snails, but their main job is to fertilize the rice with
their feces. Plus, the farmers can eat or sell the fish. Over the next several months, the researchers will be collecting data to show just how well this could work. Jonathan Lambert and PR News
Much of the U.S. has another round of swell during heat in store this week. The National Weather Service predicts that more than 90 temperature records across the U.S. will be tied or broken through Wednesday. Most of those will be overnight heat records, health experts say overnight temperatures that fail to cool down are even more dangerous than when daytime temperatures sore.
Over the next few days, cities in the Midwest and Northeast more typically known for record breaking cold in winter are likely to see record setting nighttime high temperatures, including places like Fargo, North Dakota, and in Portland, Maine. We're listening to NPR News live in Washington, I'm LeBee Casey. Your mornings are busy.
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