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US Central Command says two U.S. troops were killed during an Iranian attack on a base
“in Jordan yesterday, another one is missing.”
It appears Carrie Kahn has more. According to Central Command, the two service members were defending alongside partner forces during Iranian aerosols when they were killed. US troops operate multiple Jordanian military installations that have come under fire from Iran in recent days.
For other U.S. service members were injured, they were sent to Jordanian hospitals and later discharged. For the seventh straight night, the U.S. has struck dozens of what it says are military, logistic, and infrastructure sites in Iran. Iran says the U.S. has targeted civilian sites, including bridges and civilian utility
structures.
Siding the ongoing U.S. strikes Iran says the preliminary peace plan signed nearly one month
ago is now no longer being implemented. Carrie Kahn and PR News Tel Aviv.
“Poor air quality continues in the northeast, mid-Atlantic and mid-west, as smoke from hundreds”
of wildfires burning in Canada and northern Minnesota spreads. The National Weather Services Heavy Rain and Storms could help clear the air in some places as NPR's Christian Wright reports. The wildfires in northern Minnesota and Canada are still going strong, and firefighters are having a hard time.
The heat in other weather conditions, this means the smoke and poor air quality will stick around in some places. National Weather Service Forecaster Brian Hurley says the bad air will linger in the Midwest. As we start clearing out here in the east, they're going to get the next next batch of smoke across areas from Upper Michigan, east to Wisconsin, into Illinois, Indiana, including
Chicago. President Trump is threatening to impose new tariffs on Canada and accused the country of not maintaining its forests, Christian Wright and PR News.
“Federal health officials improperly shared Medicaid data with ICE in January, and the Federal”
Immigration Agency then shared that data with contractor planter, and here's Jude Jofi Block reports. Palantir pulls together various data sources, and an app that ICE officers can use to locate immigrants' home addresses. Last year, more than 20 states sued to stop federal health officials from sharing Medicaid
data with ICE. A federal judge ruled Medicaid officials could share limited data about immigrants in the country unlawfully, but the judge put the agreement on hold this spring. After it came out that health officials had shared two data sets that were not limited to unlawful immigrants' data.
In recent weeks, federal officials acknowledged inadvertently resharing one of those data sets again with ICE last month. ICE officials said in court filings the data in question was not used for law enforcement purposes. Jude Jofi Block and PR News, and the disclosure of the shared data was revealed in a recent
federal court filing. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A massive fire in Norway is now the country's largest in modern times, destroying more than 100 homes. Authorities say the fire started yesterday in a townhouse in German and spread to a nearby forest.
firefighters are continuing to work on controlling the blaze today, hundreds of people have been evacuated to a center, but no residents have been reported missing. The cause of the fire remains unclear and is under investigation. Dramin is located about 21 miles southwest of Oslo. The Odyssey Christopher Nolan's film based on Homer's epic poem has set sail to bigger
box office numbers, then was expected, and here's Bob Mandelo has more. Tell me, oh muse of that many-sided hero who traveled far and wide, tell me go home. The Greek poet Homer gets a co-screen writing credit for the Odyssey, appropriate as his epic tale has been captivating audiences for centuries, but in exit polls, movie goes to say they're lining up for the director and the spectator, and on could stand between me, and home.
Christopher Nolan shot the film entirely on IMAX, cameras a first for Hollywood, and at some theaters where the film is showing in 70 millimeter seats for this weekend sold out a year ago. The film was expected to open to about $85 million in North America, but estimates now range upwards from $120 million, with no other studio films opening the Odyssey's main competition is Sunday's World Cup final, Bob Mandelo and PR News.
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