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The U.S. began a new round of strikes against Iran today, U.S. Central Command says
“the strikes are designed to degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping, meanwhile”
President Trump has expected to attend the dignified transfer of service members, recently killed in the Iran War.
25-year-old First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan of Eva Beach, Hawaii, and 19-year-old
private e-sebelegancellace of Carleton, Texas, fighting escalated over the weekend to levels not seen since the beginning of the war as NPR's Hedil Alshanti reports. The U.S. military said another U.S. service member was killed in action in northern Iraq on Saturday. The member was killed during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordinance from a downed Iranian
drone. Another member was wounded in that incident. It also said that it found unidentified remains at the same location in Jordan, where two service members were killed in action and another went missing. It was unclear whether this person was a U.S. service member or not.
“This brings the total number of U.S. service members killed in this war to 17 more than 400”
have been injured. Iranian officials said over 3,000 people have been killed in this war, with at least 50 in these latest rounds of strikes. Hedil Alshanti and PR news is Campbell. The United Kingdom has a new prime minister, Andy Burnham, replaces Kier, Starmer, who
is ousted by his own party and PR's Lauren Freyer reports. In his first speech as prime minister Andy Burnham acknowledged that he is the 7th occupant of 10 Downing Street in a decade and said he wants to restore confidence in this country. Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again. He pledged to quote re-industrialize Britain, build more public housing and what he called
rough sleeping homelessness and announced plans Tuesday to address rising costs of living. His predecessor, Starmer, said he's giving Burnham his full support as he reverts to what they call a backbentcher in Parliament. Lauren Freyer and PR News loved him.
“The source of the rapidly expanding cyclist Spora outbreak remains murky after regulators”
retracted attest tracing the parasite to lettuce grown by one company and PR's U.K. Naguchi reports. The food and drug administration and other investigators have been trying to trace the possible source of cyclist Spora. The diarrhea causing disease is linked to 94 hospitalizations and 1600 confirmed cases,
plus thousands of suspected ones across 34 states. Late last week, Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce, grown and processed in Mexico, including from Taco Bell and Walmart stores. The FDA still tells consumers to avoid the product, though the agency has retracted its initial test results calling the finding a false positive.
The pathogen can be challenging to trace with its weak, long incubation period. Yukinaguchi and PR News. This is NPR News. The federal government is moving closer to opening over 2,800 acres of Ohio's Wayne National Forest to oil and gas development, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a lease sale,
bringing fracking of the forest closer to reality, and some bureaucratic hurdles remain. A federal judge has temporarily halted the proposed merger of paramount skydance and Warner Brothers discovery, as NPR's Montelito Barco reports this pauses what would be the largest deal in Hollywood history. The judge ruled in favor of the temporary halt while considering an antitrust lawsuit filed
by attorneys general from 12 states, including California and New York.
They're trying to block the 111 billion dollar merger, which they argue is unlawful.
Last week, California AG Rob Bonta's office argued in court that the deal would unfairly give too much power to the combined company paramount and Warner Brothers, resulting in fewer movies and TV shows made, job losses at the studios, and higher prices for consumers. All of these are claims that David Ellison's company paramount skydance denies. It's asking that any litigation be settled by the end of September when the company
would have to begin paying fees of $7 million a day for any delay. Mandelito Barco and PR news. Republican New Jersey State Legislator Michael Inganomort is asking Democratic Governor Mikey Cheryl to intervene after FIFA said it will sell pieces of the grass field used for yesterday's World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in Ganomort says the state paid $13 million
to upgrade the stadium, including replacing artificial turf with grass, which makes it state-owned property. It's NPR.
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