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U.S. military officials say their forces successfully struck military targets across Iran again last night.
“The statements said the strikes were designed to further degrade Iran's ability to attack”
commercial shipping. NPR's Jackie Northam reports, the U.S. and Iran, are attempting to exert control over the straight-of-war moves. Since the start of this crisis, Iran has claimed its in control, and its insisted ships get permission and follow-approved rules, and it's attacking ships if they don't.
On Monday, President Trump pushed back saying that going forward, the U.S. will be known
as the guardian of the Hormuz straight, and he's threatened to start charging 20 percent
fees on all goods transiting through the water. Even though his administration has said charging fees violates international law, Iran launched out at this saying under no circumstances will it allow the U.S. to interfere with the management of the straight NPR's Jackie Northam. The South African government says its deported or repatriated, more than 50,000 undocumented
migrants amid a crackdown on illegal immigration. Kate Bartlett has more. "About 53,000 undocumented migrants, mainly from Malawi, Symbolian, Mozambique, have
“been deported in the past month, according to government figures.”
But thousands of migrants from those African countries are also fleeing on their own accord, fearful of weekly xenophobic protests that have sometimes turned deadly. A populist group called March and March is leading the charge against migrants, blaming them for taking South African jobs amid an unemployment crisis. Thousands of Symbolians have also gone to the border, waiting to be repatriated, and thousands
of Malawians have been camped out in the open, waiting for government facilitated buses to take them home. Kate Bartlett and Pian use Johannesburg." The Labor Department reports inflation is slowing. Consumer prices rose 3.5% last month, compared to a 4.2% annual rise in May of 3-year
high. The slowdown is attributed to lower prices for gasoline. The federal government is running a bigger deficit this year than it did last year. Pian's Scott Horsley has more in the story. Federal tax collections are up this year, but federal spending is growing even faster.
Nine months into the fiscal year, the government's more than $1.3 trillion in the red. Just paying interest on the government's accumulated debt has cost more than a trillion dollars in the last nine months. That's more than the government spends on almost any other single program with the exception
of social security. Terrifrevenue is declined since the Supreme Court struck down the president's most sweeping import taxes. The administration is working to impose new tariffs, in the meantime, the latest report from
the Treasury Department shows the government has paid more than $80 billion in refunds
for tariffs that were collected illegally. Scott Horsley and Pian use Washington. "You're listening to NPR news." New York today became the first state in the union to impose a moratorium on permits for large new data centers.
Federal and Kathy Hockel signed an executive order to ban them for up to a year to protect the environment and the energy grid. The facilities require huge amounts of energy and water to cool thousands of computer servers. Technology companies need them for artificial intelligence, prompting a backlash in communities.
The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads has declined for the third year in a row, as NPR's Joel Rose reports, fatalities are still well above, pre-pandemic levels. Drivers struck and killed just over 6,700 people last year. The drop of 7% from the year before, according to a report from the governor's Highway Safety Association, California alone accounted for more than half of the drop.
2025 marked the third straight year that the number of pedestrian fatalities has declined since peaking in 2022. The last year's number is still 10% higher than the total from 2016. The report also looked at why and when pedestrians are killed and found some familiar patterns. SUVs pick up trucks and vans account for more than half of pedestrian deaths and more than
three-quarters of the tallities happen after dark. Joel Rose and PR News, Washington. At the Sauer, the bidding opens in New York for Gus.
It's a tyrannosaurus wreck, discovered in South Dakota's Badlands, 67 million years after
it roamed the earth. Scientists spent years documenting and reconstructing it. Most of these estimates it could sell for as much as $30 million, the bidding starts at 19 million. I'm Nora Rom, MPR News.
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