"Lie," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi saying, "immigration and customs enforcemen...
to pause, vehicle stops, deemed non-urgent this, after shootings, days apart in Maine and
“Texas, where officials later said the men killed were unintended targets.”
Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmou Khalil says he is suing the Trump administration for allegedly conspiring to detain him for months over his pro-Palestinian activism. Bahar Azmi is legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights which filed a suit on Khalil's behalf."
"You're suing a series of private actors, including Heritage Foundation and settled government officials for orchestrating a campaign to arrest and detain him, simply for exercising his constitutional rights, and if the same campaign that ensnared eight other people in order to repress and quench the student movement on campuses."
The Trump administration accuses Khalil and others of promoting anti-Semitism during
campus protests last year and threatening U.S. foreign policy interests. In a statement today, the White House says Khalil obtained his student visa by "willfully and intentionally failing to accurately report information relevant to his background." This hour, the U.S. resumes a naval blockade on Iran, NPR's Quilorn supports Iranian and U.S. strikes seem to have intensified, weakening a ceasefire agreement.
A ceasefire paused the war in April, but Iran and the U.S. immediately disagreed on how
“a June memorandum of understanding dealt with shipping through the state of Hormuz, a key”
waterway for oil and other products worldwide. This week, President Trump ordered a resumption of the blockade on maritime traffic to and from Iran and stepped up missile attacks on Iranian targets. Iran and turn has been striking U.S. allies in the region and hitting tankers it says are violating Iran's claim of control over the straight.
From April through June, the U.S. enforced blockade allowed dozens of age shipments through, but turned back 140 vessels and fired on nine that did not comply. Quilorn's NPR News
short-recorded show writer Eging Carroll has been paid over $5.6 million at a jury awarded
in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Trump. Recorded show the payment was made Monday from an account where it had been held in Eskro since the 2023 verdict. As Sath Carolina's late senator Lindsey Graham's family mourns the Republicans' death, his younger sister Darling Graham, is committing to serve the remainder of her siblings'
term. Senator Chuck Grassley administering the oath of simple dignified yet somber moment, three days after Darling Graham lost her brother who died of a tear to the Aorta he was 71 years old. This is NPR News.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to test for the intestinal parasite cyclist spora in patients with diarrhea and other GI symptoms amid an unusually large outbreak. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports their arcases reported in 34 states. The CDC has confirmed more than 1,600 cases and thousands more await confirmation across
many states. The youngest person sickened with cyclist spora is 2 and the oldest is 95 more than 140 people have been hospitalized and antibiotics can treat this parasitic infection. Here's the CDC's Gwen Bigger Staff. Investigators say cases in four states, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky appear
to be connected and may share a common source prior outbreaks have been linked to lettuce and other fresh produce, but so far, the source of this outbreak is not known. Allison Aubrey and PR news, drop in oil prices in June led to a sharp drop in inflation
“and Pearson B.S. how reports on the latest government data?”
Consumer prices in June were up 3.5% from a year earlier, higher than the federal reserve wants, but lower than May's high, prices in June were down 0.4% from a month earlier. The decrease primarily comes down to the main driving force behind inflation in recent months, energy prices. They fell 5.7% in June from a month earlier.
That's Stephen Bassaha reporting. I was before the least uptick in fighting between the U.S. and Iran, the renewed attacks have pushed oil prices up in recent days. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR news. On Consider This, NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the
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