Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.
U.S. Central Command says the U.S. military launched new strikes against Iran overnight for the ninth night in a row.
“This has sent common nouns to a third U.S. service member has been killed from Iranian”
attacks. It's raising fears of a wider war as Kuwait, Jordan, and Bahrain activated defenses against Iranian drones and missiles. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports. NPR then comes to a U.S. service member in Northern Iraq died on Saturday during an attempt
to safely destroy unexploded ordinance from an Iranian drone that had been shot down.
A second service member sustained minor injuries.
Iran has been targeting U.S. troops on bases around the region, including Kurdish-controlled areas in Northern Iraq and bases in Jordan, where Iranian drones and missiles breached U.S. air defenses on Friday. The U.S. has been bombarding Iran for over a week, hitting bridges in infrastructure, as well as purely military targets.
After a shaky ceasefire, mostly held since April, the war appears to be escalating. Iran is threatening tanker traffic in the state of Hormuz, and the U.S. continues a maritime blockade on Iran. Quil Lawrence and Pyrnus.
“British Prime Minister Kier Starmor is meeting King Charles today at Buckingham Palace”
to tender his resignation. Then the King is expected to ask the former mayor of Manchester, England, and he burned
him to form the next government.
Both from the center left Labor Party, and share roughly the same politics, as NPR's Lauren Freyer reports from London. Andy Burnham was previously in parliament for 16 years, then left to become mayor of Greater Manchester. He helped bring growth to that post-industrial city and pledges to do the same for the United
Kingdom nationally. Polls show voters find him more charismatic than Starmor. Burnham wears t-shirts rather than suits, and moonlights as a DJ. In terms of policy, Burnham says he'll reverse the privatization of transit and utilities, and devolve power away from the capital to municipal and regional authorities.
He's likely to face some of the same challenges as Starmor, though, rising cost of living
“slow growth and a volatile American ally across the Atlantic.”
Lauren Freyer and Pyrnus, London. A tropical depression has formed along the Gulf Coast of Florida, and the National Hurricane Center says a tropical storm watch is an effect for the Florida Panhandle through tonight. Senior Hurricane Specialist, John Kegelowski, says the center put up a tropical storm watch, even though they are not expecting landfall.
The reason that is is the storm is fairly sprawling, and some of the outer bands may produce tropical storm force plants sort of on the low end of that threshold. Kegelowski says the forecast brings it to a mid-grade tropical storm as it rides the northern Gulf Coast along Louisiana and eventually heads toward Texas.
Vice President J.D. Vance and second lady Ushivans have announced the birth of a fourth
child and its a boy, Alec Niel Vance. This is NPR. Spain is the new World Cup Champion. It'd be defending Champion Argentina 1-Nil in extra time, Steve Futterman reports from East Rutherford, New Jersey.
"To most fans, it probably wasn't the most exciting World Cup final ever. There was only one goal the entire match, and that came in extra time in the 106th minute. If you are a fan of Spain, however, you might see things a bit differently. Nuchel's Sanchez from Madrid was at the game. He found the result at least thrilling."
"I'm Billy Wampino, Spain's and war champions. He served it very well this Earth." Spain's defense was once again the big story, four days after holding powerhouse France and it star a killing and bomb a scoreless, the Spanish defense did the same thing against Argentina and Leonardo Messi.
In all eight matches, Spain allowed just one goal. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the World Cup in the East Rutherford, New Jersey. Support is consolidating among Democrats in Maine for a U.S. Senate candidate, Troy Jackson is a longtime state lawmaker and former logger. Democrats are scrambling to replace Graham Plattener on the ballot after he dropped out of
the race this month over rape allegations which he denies. The field has been crowded with a dozen candidates, but several people dropped out over the weekend and endorsed Jackson as he solidified his support. The timeline to replace Plattener is tight. Maine Democrats will meet this weekend at a convention to vote on who they'll pick to run
against incumbent Republican Susan Collins. Collins is running for her sixth term in the Senate. This is NPR News. One year after Congress eliminated federal funding for public media, NPR remains committed to informing the public.
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