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In Iran, the U.S. resumed a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz today.
If your school Lawrence reports 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 Strait of
“Hormuz, a key waterway for oil and other products worldwide.”
Which 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, in turn, has been striking U.S. allies in the region, and hitting tankers it says are violating Iran's claim of control over the Strait. 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. For OPalestinian activists, Mahmou Khalil has filed a lawsuit alleging a "public private conspiracy" to target critics of Israel. As employers can't law and store for reports, the suit claims that the federal government and several private groups worked together to suppress supporters of a movement fueled
by Israel's war on Hamas. Khalil is a former Columbia University graduate student, who gained prominence as a student activist, protesting Israel and its actions against Palestinians and Gaza. He is a legal permanent resident and married to a U.S. citizen, but in March of 2025,
“he was arrested by ICE and detained, accused of stoking anti-Semitism contrary to U.S.”
foreign policy interests. The newly filed lawsuit alleges that officials in the Trump administration, the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, and two online surveillance groups coordinated to suppress his constitutional rights. The White House did not respond to MPR for comment on the lawsuit, but instead accused
Khalil of obtaining a visa by quote fraud and misrepresentation. Khalil is facing deportation, a case that could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Kat Lonstorf and Pair News, Washington.
After years of legal wrangling, writer E. Jean Carroll has received a $5.6 million payment
in her civil case against President Trump. As MPR's bill travel reports, Trump's been fighting against this moment since he first took office. E. Jean Carroll sued President Trump after he denied her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room some 30 years ago.
In 2023, a federal jury in Manhattan awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after finding Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. The award was tied up in a legal battle until last week, when the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal. A federal judge then ordered the president to pay Carroll along with three years' worth
of interest.
And even bigger payment is looming in the dispute between Carroll and Trump, an $83 million
award in a separate defamation case, which the president has also appealed, Bill Chappell in PR News. Wall Street hire by the closing bell, the Dow, up, nine points. You're listening to NPR News. IBM has made a surprise announcement of preliminary quarterly earnings, and the market doesn't
like it one bit. This impures John Ruich reports the company's share price has cratered. IBM is on track for its worst day ever on the stock market. At one point, it shares it lost more than a quarter of their value. This comes after the company pre-announced that second quarter earnings will fall well
short of analyst's expectations, and a letter to investors, the company says it's computing infrastructure revenue also came in worse than it expected. It's a shift in the way customers spent money during the quarter, hoarding things like chips and disk drives has prices soared due to AI-related demand. IBM says it failed to close numerous large deals for mainframe computers as a result.
Investors have been on edge about tech earnings amid unprecedented spending on AI. John Ruich and PR News. The airplane captain, who famously landed a plane on the Hudson River in New York 17 years ago, says he has Alzheimer's disease. 75-year-old Chelsea Sully-Sullenberger says on his website he recently got the diagnosis
and that it's in its early stages. He says he hopes that by sharing the news, others will feel they can get help. In 2009, Sullenberger and Copilot Jeff Skiles were flying a U.S. airways plane when the engine hit a flock of Canadian geese and they pulled off an emergency water landing. While 155 people onboard the plane survived.
His future contracts are trading flat at this hour, I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Everyone wants to know if AI is conscious, but consciousness is really hard to define. It's the experience we're having right now.
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