"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
The United States and Iran have exchanged new strikes as their fight over the Strait of Hormuz intensifies, and PR's Emily Fang reports the attacks continued for a seventh-strait night." U.S. set com said it did launch strikes at military and surveillance sites across Iran without specifying the number of targets.
Iran alleged the U.S. hit civilian sites as well, including a water desalination plant.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military assets
and Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan in retaliation. Bahrain's defense ministry said it intercepted several Iranian aerial attacks. Kuwait said it had to cancel flights, and that one of its power in water desalination plans was hit by an Iranian attack.
“Earlier in Iranian news agencies said Tehran could go after five key ports in the Middle East”
hosting U.S. military or commercial interests in retaliation for a U.S. hit on a maritime control tower at Narani airport in the city of Chahabhar. I'm Emily Fang in PR News. President Trump is threatening tariffs against Canada over hazardous wildfire smoke drifting into large parts of the United States and, opposed on social media, Trump called the
air "filthy," polluted and unhealthy.
Republican members of Michigan's congressional delegation are also criticizing Canada over
the wildfire smoke, when Klein falter and member station WDET reports from Detroit. In a letter this week, Michigan Republicans, including Congresswoman Lisa McClain, the fourth highest ranking GOP House member, told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney that, quote, "American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction on wildfires." The group warned if Canada did not manage its forest better, the U.S. could take direct
action to reduce cross-border fuel for the wildfires and amplify efforts to extinguish the blazes.
“Carney countered in a speech that climate change is driving the wildfires and said Canada is”
investing in clean energy, while the U.S. has enacted, quote, "prohibitions" against reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klein-Filter in Detroit. President Trump attended a FIFA World Cup reception in New York last night ahead of Sunday's championship game between Spain and Argentina.
Trump welcomed both teams to the United States and looked ahead to the match. So good luck to Spain and Argentina on Sunday and may the best team win. The final will be played at MetLife Stadium in Northern New Jersey. Trump is expected to attend the match and present the trophy to the winning team. Trump away says the national average for regular gasoline has jumped 11 cents in the past
week to about $3.99 a gallon. Diesel prices are also climbing up 21 cents over the same period to 508 per gallon. This is NPR.
“One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents is expected to leave the island today in forced”
exile, and P.R. Zeta Perral to report the musician and performance artists served five years in prison. Luis Manuel Oteiro Alcantadabno a sentence to five years in prison for public disorder. Oteiro was arrested following nationwide government protests in 2021. He was part of a group who composed an anti-government song that went on to win two Latin
Grammys. It's over. We're no longer scared. The government's lies are over. They sang.
Oteiro completed his five-year sentence more than a week ago. It has continued to be detained. A U.S. embassy official in Havana tells NPR if the Cuban government allows Oteiro will board a plane to Miami on Saturday. The U.S. will allow him to enter under humanitarian or significant public benefit Perral.
It'll prompt him and P.R. News, Mexico City. A nationwide outbreak of cyclopspora is sending more shoppers to local farms for fresh produce. At young family farm K.C. near Kansas City, farmer Alana Henry says the outbreak is underscoring the value of food grown closer to home.
I anticipate in the coming days and weeks that we'll see an influx of new customers. More than 1,600 people have been second in the outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in five states. The affected restaurants are in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia. The lettuce was sourced from Mexico.
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