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U.S. military says it has completed another round of strikes against Iran, saying in

a statement that dozens of military targets were hit near the Strait of Hormuz. Also, the U.S. resumed an naval blockade of Iranian ports Tuesday, its impures Quilloritz reports. "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.

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 Strait. From April through June, the U.S. enforced blockade allowed dozens of aid shipments through,

but turned back 140 vessels and fired on nine that did not comply."

Quilloritz MPR news, President Trump's borders are at Tom Holman, says the administration's move to suspend most traffic stops by immigration and customs and enforcement officers is not a policy change. He told Fox News Tuesday that it's a temporary pause to conduct a short-term review after two fatal shootings within a week.

In a separate incident, the authorities say a man in St. Augustine floored a died while running away from immigration officers Tuesday. He was struck by a tractor trailer.

But a reserve chairman Kevin Worsh was on Capitol Hill Tuesday, where he promised lawmakers

on the House Financial Services Committee at the Fed will get inflation under control. "Now at the Fed, our number one objective is getting monetary policy right. That's our clear and constant aim. The star we steer by. And if we get policy right, and I can assure you we will.

The inflation surge of the last five years will be a thing of the past." "We're superior before the panel, as fresh data showed inflation has cooled, or also pledged to his job if challenged by President Trump, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent opinion reaffirming the Fed's independence." Israeli air strikes killed at least 13 Palestinians across Gaza Tuesday, Gaza's health

ministry says 50 have been killed, and more than 200 wounded over the past, week here's empires on Aspava. Israeli strikes at the civil rights of Gaza on Tuesday, in order to Gaza hospital officials

say seven people were killed when a strike hit a police post, where civilians had gathered

to fight complaints. Gaza and two ministry says those killed included the head of police in northern Gaza and his deputy. These Israeli military say the strike targeted and killed four men described as Hamas militants and southern Gaza, medic say, and Israeli strike at attention during displaced families

killing one person, secretly hold official say, a 10-year-old child was killed by Israeli gunfire with the bullet in the chest." "This is in PR. This is how the Afghan government says it has deported more than 50,000 undocumented migrants amid a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Kate Bartler reports a government is facing pressure on the issue from protest groups. "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 the 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 Bartler, in PR News, Johannesburg."

"The writer's Guild of America is the latest to challenge paramounts 81 billion dollar

acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery. The Guild filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to block the merger, alleging it would harm moving in television writers in the US. A Monday, a coalition of 12 states led by California's Attorney General filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the transaction."

Capitol Hill, back on Capitol Hill Tuesday, the House overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. The 308 to 117 votes and the bill to the Senate if enacted, the measure would end the twice yearly changing of the clock so the state's could opt out. This is in PR News."

"This week on NewsMakers, I'm a surprise you even had me on." Comedian Bill Marr, on his Mark Twain Award and the lost art of political debate, just engaged with the argument, "Tell me if I'm wrong about something, and then we're going to be cool, but that's not what either extreme does in this country anymore." We'll tomorrow on this week's newsmakers, watch, or listen, wherever you get your podcasts.

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