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U.S. military officials say their forces successfully struck military targets across Iran again last night.
“The statement said the strikes were designed or 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 it's in control, and it's 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. But even though his administration has said charging fees violates international law, Iran lashed 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, a federal judge's slamming president Trump's law suit over his league tax returns, saying it was filed in bad faith for
an improper purpose. The judge also recommended sanctions for his attorneys, NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
“In her 56-page order, U.S. district judge Kathleen Williams' blasts President Trump's”
lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns. The lawsuit ended with a settlement, which included the creation of nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, which has since been scrapped. Judge Williams says Trump's lawsuit was brought to manipulate the judicial process and to try to use the court to provide some legitimacy to the eventual settlement and the earmarking
of billions of taxpayer dollars to address grievances not defined in the law. The judge referred one of Trump's lawyers for potential disciplinary action, Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. Immigration advocates in Maine identify a man shot to death during an ice-traffic stop yesterday, as a 26-year-old man from Colombia, who was authorized to work in the U.S. official
say he was shocked because he attempted to flee the scene in a vehicle. A dozen states led by California are suing to stop the merger of Hollywood Giants' paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, that it was stifled competition between film studios and news outlets. And PR's David Foconflik has more.
“California Attorney General Rob Bata says a union of paramount and Warner would lead to”
higher prices, lower quality and less content for film and television.
The $111 billion deal would bring together the company's movie studios, streamers
paramount plus in HBO Max, news outlets, CBS news and CNN, and other household names. Oracle co-founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison is largely bankrolling the bid. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to fight it, but, in a press release, Bonta says California and the other states are fighting for free and fair, not rigged markets.
He says America has no kings in government or its economy. David Foconflik and PR News. This is NPR. Darlin Graham is to be sworn in this afternoon to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate. She's to complete the term of Lindsey Graham, her brother, who died over the weekend,
his term ends in January. A special election will be held next month to determine the Republican candidate in the general election November.
France's third heat wave of the year is intense and lingering.
NPR's Ella Beardsly reports. France's state-owned energy group has temporarily shut down three nuclear reactors. The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging excessively hot water and delivers already warming because of the heat wave. Forest fires are raging in the south of the country, and a rare blaze has broken out in
the forest of Fontenblow around the famed Chateau of the same name just south of Paris. As smoke billows above the 15th century castle, the blaze forced the shutdown of a major highway. The famous Canada firefighting planes that usually scoop water from the Mediterranean, but out southern fires are now scooping thousands of gallons from the San River, Eleanor Beardsly
and Pair News Paris. It is but steel day in France, marking the storming of the prison in 1789, helping to spark the French Revolution. This is a manual Macron's last fist deal day as the French president. He's welcoming leaders from dozens of countries for an event, designed to show Europe's
United support for Ukraine and its military strength. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is among them, a parade through the streets of Paris will include Ukrainian troops. I'm Laura Rom, NPR News in Washington. This is our glass of the American life.
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