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President Trump says he will give a speech to the nation Thursday evening.
“NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports, the speech comes as the U.S. has relaunched heavy military”
strikes against Iran. "President Trump did not give any details on what the speech would be about, but that it would be given at 9 p.m.." The announcement comes amid new escalation in the fight against Iran. In addition to launching a series of strikes, the president says the U.S. is reinstating
its blockade on Iran. After leaders in Iran announced that they would be closing the strait of Hormuz.
Now Trump insists the critical waterway that's vital for global energy transportation
remains open. He also announced that the U.S. plans to impose a 20% charge on all cargo shipped through the strait. He says the U.S. should be reimbursed for the security costs for maintaining the waterway. Franco Ordonia's NPR News, the White House.
The district attorney in Harris County, Texas, says his office is still trying to obtain evidence from federal investigators in the fatal ice shooting of a Houston man last week. As Houston public media's Kyle McLeanigan reports, the D.A. says he has not ruled out legal action. "Last week, Harris County D.A. Shantir announced his office would be conducting its own
investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Sorgato Arralho, who was killed by federal agents after they tried to pull him over." This week, Tears says his office is still asking for cooperation.
“"We are still trying to get access to a number of key pieces of evidence.”
What those pieces are, I'm not going to go into. At some point, it becomes a place where we stop asking and we start asking district court judges in state court and federal court to grant us access." Tears announced the independent investigation after he says D.A.S. declined to invite his office to join the ongoing federal investigation.
For NPR News, I'm Kyle McLeanigan, in Houston." Stocks retreated and oil surged after President Trump said the U.S. would reimpose a blockade on the street of Hormuz. As NPR's Rafael Nom reports, the announcement is reviving fears about energy costs. "Once again, financial markets are the mercy of developments in Iran.
Brand crude futures, the benchmark of prices globally, jumped more than 9%. The Dow fell more than 100 points, as the continued tensions in the region revives fears about the fate of this vital passageway for oil. Trump's threat to also impose at all an all cargo traveling through the street added to the concerns.
Meanwhile the NASDAQ's slumped by more than one and a half percent, as chipmakers retreated, I mean, decimigly perennial worries about whether the AI trade has been overdone, Rafael Nom in PR News." The sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham will finish his term in the U.S. Senate, Darling Graham was named today as South Carolina's interim senator by Governor Henry McMaster.
It's NPR. The beloved New Zealand actor Sam Neill has died at age 78. He had a wide-ranging career over some 50 years, most famously in the Jurassic Park franchise. NPR's Anastasia Silcus has this remembrance. Sam Neill was best-known and loved by fans for the 1993 Steven Spielberg Blockbuster Jurassic
Park. He played a paleontologist with doubts.
Dinosaurs in man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution, just been suddenly
thrown back into the mix together and how can we possibly have the slightest idea of what to expect? He played many of their kinds of roles too. Sam Hallby Hunter's clueless husband in Jane Campions filmed the piano to the hugely entertaining antagonist inspector Campbell in the first two seasons of the BBC drama Peaky
Blinders. His family said he died in Sydney, Australia, but did not provide any further details. Anastasia Silcus and PR News, New York. A dozen states have challenged Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. discovery, filing a lawsuit today, they argue the $80 billion mega merger would extinguish competition in Hollywood
and threatened jobs across the entertainment industry. The Office of California's Attorney General, which is leading the coalition, alleges that the proposed merger would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television. Philadelphia's preparing to host major league baseball's All-Star Game tomorrow night,
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