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The U.S. military has launched another round of strikes on Iranian military targets after
“promising a swift response to an attack in Jordan that killed two U.S. service members.”
NPR's Qilarans reports 16 American troops have been killed since the war began in February. The U.S. has been bombarding infrastructure in military targets in Iran for a full week. And Iran state media says scores have been killed both military and civilian. Iran has also claimed to have hit tankers in the Gulf and several U.S. bases in the region with drones and rockets that included Moffuk-Salti Air Base, a joint U.S. Jordanian facility.
Centrum has denied most of these claims, but has now confirmed that U.S. troops on a base in Jordan died after an Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack. Several service members were met-of-act to Jordanian hospitals, others returned to duty with minor injuries. President Trump has said that negotiations to end the war continue, but also that the cease-fire
declared in April is over.
Qilarans and PR News smoked from Canadian wildfires is still hanging over a large part of the northern and eastern United States, air quality alerts what is stretched from the
“great lakes through New England and the Mid-Atlantic, including a statewide alert in Michigan.”
Still manual with a national weather service in Minnesota says weather conditions are driving both the fires and the response. Weather dictates everything that happens and dictated the start of these fires and dictates how we suppress these fires and how the team reacts and manages what's on the ground out there. Forcaster say shifting winds and more favorable weather should gradually bring some relief.
Official intelligence has become one of if not the fastest growing cost for U.S. businesses ever. NPR's John Roach reports to survive some tech companies are switching from American models to cheaper Chinese AI. Flow Crevello runs a San Francisco-based company called Lindy that creates AI assistance. The company had been using Anthropics Frontier Leading Edge AI models to develop its products,
but that became his company's number one expense, more even than payroll. So last month, he announced that Lindy had migrated entirely to the Chinese AI deep seek.
“Chinese AI models have been growing in popularity and that no one beats China when it comes”
to open source models, which anyone can download and adapt. Later this week, China hosts the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, where Chinese leaders Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote address, John Roach and PR News. Walmart says it's removing some bag iceberg lettuce salad products from select stores as a precaution. It comes amid an investigation into an outbreak of cyclopspora.
This is NPR News in Washington. Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested to Miami by the U.S. Marshall's service. British authorities are seeking their extradition on charges, including rape and human trafficking, the brothers who hold both the American and British citizenship are expected to appear in Miami's federal court.
They deny the allegations. The final match of the World Cup is that to get underway today, Spain and Argentina are the world's two top-rank teams and now the face-off for the most coveted trophy in the sport, and PR's Becky Sullivan reports. It's the last of 104 games, and the final day of the World Cup fever that has swept
North America this summer. There were worries about wildfire smoke worries about ticket prices, which are hovering near $10,000 to get into the stadium, but the day has come. Spain and Argentina are both juggernaut Spain, the clinical defensive geniuses who have conceded just one goal this whole World Cup, Argentina, the cardiac kits who keep pulling
off late game magic. Both teams have a superstar, for Spain, the 19-year-old Leminiumol, and for Argentina, the 39-year-old Leonel Messi, who, despite his age, has eight goals and four assists at this World Cup, a title would be Spain's second in their history, for Argentina, it would be their fourth and second straight.
Becky Sullivan and PR news, New York. Andy Burnham is set to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday after winning the Labour Party leadership. He's promised to focus on lowering the cost of living, boosting economic growth and shifting more power away from London, Burnham will succeed, care starmer.
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