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The Pentagon has now confirmed a total of 18 U.S. troops killed in action during the
“Iran war since February, four soldiers died since last Friday.”
One was on a U.S. base in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq during a detonation of a down Iranian drone. The other three died on a joint U.S. air base in Jordan. The current Pentagon tally for wounded personnel on the war is 482-100 of which occurred in the past two weeks, meanwhile Defense Secretary Pete Hague says troop training would
have to be cut back. If the Pentagon doesn't get the $67 billion in supplemental funds, it's requesting from Congress. He also raised concerns about troop pay and weapons that defend against enemy drones and missiles.
Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay
our service members. Rapidly replenish equipment and munitions and sustained vital operations without disruption.
“Republicans are trying to pass the budget package before lawmakers take a month-long break”
to campaign for the midterm elections later this week. The Senate will consider another war power's resolution, limiting President Trump's ability to unilaterally wage war. Most Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the conflict as gas prices spike again. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has formally approved a plan to stop collecting
demographic data from employers for six decades. The data has been used to help fight discrimination on the job, as NPR's Andrea Xu reports.
The EEOC voted two to one, along party lines to move forward with this major change.
Once a year, large employers must give the government information about the race and sex of their employees. But the agency's current chair, Andrea Lucas, says this reporting requirement imposes significant costs while offering limited enforcement value. He also says it may promote rather than reduce discrimination.
“Meanwhile, the loan Democrat on the Commission, Copa Nucodic, all says ending the data collection”
will kneecap the agency's ability to investigate discrimination. Now, the public has 30 days to weigh in, Andrea Xu and PR news. Federal health officials have remained focused on lettuce from tailor farms as a source of the multi-state cyclist Spora outbreak, despite an inaccurate test result reported over the weekend. And PR's Eucodic Gucci has more experts think we're actually dealing with several unrelated
outbreaks right now. The biggest by far is Michigan and Ohio, which account for most cases right now. U.S. Health officials say iceberg lettuce from tailor farms in Mexico was the source. That product was recalled. But now, if you look at a heat map of these states where the cases are, the Southern Michigan
border with Ohio is like the worst. It's a 10 times the rate of that of nearby states. NPR's Eucodic Gucci reporting computer chip makers and other AI winners carried while street higher today. This is NPR news. Tropical storm, Bertha, is expected to weaken in the Gulf of Mexico as it gets closer
to the U.S., but forecasters say it still could bring coastal flooding and heavy rain from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana areas along the northern Gulf Coast are under a tropical storm warning through tomorrow and could see heavy rain and flooding into Thursday morning. Federal prosecutors in New York City are charging a man with arson for setting off fireworks and igniting a blaze outside the city's biggest immigration court.
Samantha Max of member station WNYC reports. Prosecutors say Andrew Arrabaka spent months planning the attack and buying supplies. They say he purposely chose to carry it out at a busy entrance and that he knew his actions could put people in danger. Prosecutors also say he confessed to what he did and why he did it after his arrest. Arrabaka's defense attorney says his actions were likely motivated
by mental illness. The defense asked the judge to release him to a psychiatric hospital, not sent him to jail. The judge said she wants Arrabaka to get treatment, but she's not convinced that he'll comply. So she ordered that he'd be held in jail instead. Officials say three people suffered minor injuries, including one immigrant on the way to a court appointment.
Friend Pierre News, I'm Samantha Max in New York. Serial Swindler and ex Republican Congressman George Santos will be a reality TV show contestant in September. Santos will appear on the fifth season of Fox's special forces world's toughest test, participants will be subjected to chemical gassing and other military theme challenges in a Malaysian jungle. This is NPR News from Washington.
The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. He told me you've no make me cry. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
