Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, Defense Secretary Pete Hegsaath will ask...
appropriations committee today for $350 billion to fund the Iran War. Hegsaath will
“be on Capitol Hill as the tax between Iran and the U.S. are escalating as MPR's”
Quill Lawrence reports. U.S. forces have bombed Iranian military and infrastructure targets for ten days running and have reinstated and naval blockade on Iran's ports in coastline. Iranian media reports scores of casualties. Iran has attacked U.S. bases around the region with missiles and drones killing at least
three U.S. service members since Friday. This week, the Department of Defense divulged that at least 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks, most of whom returned to service. The Pentagon hasn't briefed the press since May, and the hearing today will be the first chance for senators from both parties to ask Hegsaath publicly about the depletion of
U.S. military munitions, safety of troops in the region and how the U.S. plans to resolve the war. Quill Lawrence and PR News.
Iran's revolutionary guard claiming responsibility for an attack on a tanker in the
“state of Formus, and at least one other attack on a ship Monday.”
The British military's maritime trade operation center says the attack force secrewed to abandon ship. The latest Iranian attacks came as the U.S. military said it had completed a 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian targets. New Orleans is getting ready for tropical storm birth.
We take all the events seriously and are prepared to enhance staffing levels across the utility should it all teams are coordinated, positioned, and equipped to respond as conditions evolved. Randy Hayman is the executive director of the New Orleans sewage embod and water board, spoke Monday night, as birth has strengthened into a tropical storm, forecasters expect
birth to bring heavy rains to the Gulf Coast and could make landfall south of New Orleans late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. Hamasah said it has chosen a new leader nearly three years after the October 7 attack on Israel. It appears in Aspaba of report.
“Hamasah's Khalil Al-Hayah was chosen through an internal vote involving representatives”
from Gaza. The cubaid west bank Israeli prisons and leaders approach Al-Hayah joined Hamas during its founding years. A professor of Islamic studies, he led the groups negotiating team in indirect ceasefire and hostages talks with Israel.
He was a close ally of formal leader, he is in war. Israel has repeatedly targeted Al-Hayah, including in an astrike in Doha Qatar. That he survived. Hamas says four of his sons were killed during the war. Now, takes over a movement whose senior political and military leadership has been severely
depleted by Israeli operations. As Hamas faces continued military pressure in Gaza and ungoing ceasefire negotiations and a small bow and Pyrenees guilty to it. This is in PR news. New tariffs on Canada are set to take effect in 30 days.
A Trump administration announced Monday, 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports
using Section 338 of the tariff act of 1930, which permits a president to impose punitive tariffs against trading partners who are deemed to have unfairly discriminated against American products. The move is believed to be the law's first known usage in nearly a century. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Cuba is the leading sponsor of what he calls radical
leftism in the U.S., and he's naming organizations that he says had been working with Cuban intelligence in Paris for so-called "columnment reports." Just days after Secretary Rubio hosted a conference on what he describes as a resurgence of left-wing political violence, he's issuing a 70-page report detailing what he sees as Cuba's history of an ideological battle against the United States starting in the 1960s.
He says Cuba's "marked-sist project" not only survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, but thrived. And he calls Savannah the ideological capital of the modern radical left. Rubio's parents were born in Cuba, but fled to the U.S. before the Revolution, Rubio began his political career in Florida and was known for his tough stand against Cuba's
Communist government. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. And as a U.S. and Iran-traded tax gas prices rising again, according to AAA, an actual average for a gallon of regular is back above $4. I'm Jail Snyder, this is in PR News. 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 he was going to make me cry." Antonio Jr. 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.
