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Live from NPR news on trial Snyder, Darling Graham is expected to be sworn in...

Senator Tuesday afternoon, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Graham

Monday as her late brother Lindsey Graham's temporary replacement.

Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed, it's my honor to ask his little sister, Dahling Graham, to finish his work for him now. Darling Graham is President Trump's preferred choice and will serve the remaining months of her brother's term, which ends in January, a special primary election to determine a new Republican nominee to contest a seat in November, as been scheduled for August 11th.

U.S. military says it is completed a third consecutive night of strikes on Iran,

saying the attacks on military targets across the country lasted five hours. Iran been well as claimed an attack on two tankers at the United Arab Emirates, says killed a person who wounded eight others. Stocks retreated in oil surge after President Trump said the U.S. would reimpose a blockade on the straight-up for moves, as impairs Rafael Nam reports.

Once again, finashum markets are at the mercy of developments in Iran, brand-crewed futures to benchmark for prices globally jumped more than 9%. The Dahl fell more than a hundred points as the continued tensions in the region

revive futures about the fate of this vital passageway for oil.

Trump's threat to also impose at all an all cargo traveling through the straight added to the concerns. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 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 Nam in P.R. News. federal immigration agents fatally shot a driver in Maine early Monday morning while attempting

to carry out an arrest warrant by Kevin Miller with Maine Public Reports of one of Maine's senators. Now says the 26-year-old Colombian man was not the person I say, since we're looking for. Independent Senator Angus King says Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin initially told them that federal agents were seeking the man because he had been ordered to leave the country. But King's office had Mullin subsequently informed the senator

that the man had, in fact, not in the target of that arrest warrant. Other details about the incident remain murky. King said Mullin told him the man had quote "weaponized the car" before he was shot. And the office of Maine's attorney general said the man reportedly drove in the direction of the officer. But an ice spokesperson now says the officer was "fearing for public safety when they fired at the fleeing vehicle." For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller in August of Maine.

"Shooting a Maine came less than a week after an ice agent shot and killed a man at a traffic stopped during a deportation crackdown at Houston, Texas. Multiple people have been killed during immigration enforcement operations." This is NPR News.

Minnesota prosecutors say they have obtained key evidence and their investigation into the

fatal shootings up for nay good and Alex Pretty and have been county attorney, Mary Moriarty. Says her office now has hard drives with statements, police body camera video and other evidence previously with halbed by federal officials and investigators also have good damaged car. A federal judge says the lawsuit president Trump filed against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an improper purpose, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams

found Monday that Trump improperly used a $10 billion lawsuit he filed to extract personal benefits from the government he oversees. Recycling electric vehicle batteries can be a win-win scenario. It's good for the environment and it's good for business, but that's only true if the math

works out. In his NPR's Camila Dominozki reports a math does not always work out.

When an EV battery finally reaches the end of its life, which takes a long time, sometimes the minerals inside are worth enough to more than cover the cost of recycling them, but not always. Brian Bechant of Westover Salva Jardyn Massachusetts has gotten old Tesla battery on his hands and if he sends it to a recycler, that was going to cost me if it was just one battery, 1,800 bucks in total. That's a problem because it could lead to batteries

piling up as hazard is waste. A new long Colorado aims to fix the math by putting automakers on the hook to make sure batteries get recycled even if the economics aren't pinchling out. Camila Dominozki, NPR News. This is NPR News.

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