Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Defense Secretary Pete Heggsef will ask the Senate appropriations committee today for $350
billion to fund the Iran War.
“In Pierce School Lawrence reports, Heggsef will be on Capitol Hill as a tax between”
Iran and the U.S. are escalating. U.S. forces have bombed Iranian military and infrastructure targets for 10 days running and have reinstated and naval blockade on Iran's ports and 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 Heggsef 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. Quilarence and PR News President Trump meets with Lebanon's president today in Washington
“as the State Department tries to push forward a peace process between Israel and Lebanon.”
As Pierce Michelle Kellerman reports, the U.S. is trying to give Lebanon's president a boost. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he thinks it will be a good meeting at the White House, and President Joseph Feun will be able to return to Lebanon and say he's getting real results for his people, not his below or Iran.
At the moment, Israel controls much of southern Lebanon as it battles the Iranian-backed Tespalai, which has been firing rockets across the border into Israel. The U.S. has negotiated what are called pilot zones to allow Lebanon to re-establish sovereignty in several areas in the South. Joe says the U.S. is also talking to Lebanon about international investments and resuming
flights from the U.S., Michelle Kellerman, and PR News, the State Department. Tropical Storm-Virtha is turning slowly northward off the southeast coast in the Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center says the storm, with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles
“an hour, is about 110 miles southwest of Panama City, Florida, and some 170 miles east”
of Mobile, Alabama. As officials in New Orleans, start preparing for possible landfall tomorrow. Randy Hayman is the executive director of the New Orleans Sewerage and Waterboard. We take all events seriously, and are prepared to enhance staffing levels across the utility should it all teams accorded, positioned, and equipped to respond as conditions evolve.
After the formed in the Gulf of Mexico late yesterday in Tropical Storm watches and warnings are up for parts of the Gulf Coast. World Financial Markets Asian Markets mixed by the close the NECA up 3.2%, you're listening to NPR News. A prominent Russian opposition figure says he'll drop out of electoral politics indefinitely, amidst state pressure.
He had been a rare public voice in Russia against the war in Ukraine. NPR's Charles Mane's reports from Moscow. Bores the Deshton had hoped to run for a spot in Russia's Parliament this September. His campaign centered on his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Yet the Deshton says he'll stop fighting his exclusion from politics rather than risk jail time
for him or his supporters. The decision follows recent weeks that saw the state label him a foreign agent and can victim of spreading extremist content on social media. While the latter only involved a small court fine, both technically disqualify him from public office, the Deshton insists the moves are designed to silence him and other anti-war
views ahead of the September vote, that despite polls that show a majority of Russians wanting an end to the war, now in its fifth year. Charles Mane's MPR News. Moscow Republican Senator Darling Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who's
filling his seat temporarily, says she will run for the full six-year term in the state primary to be held next month.
The states, after President Trump urged the 62-year-old, who's never held public office
to run, Graham will face a competitive Republican primary, though, despite Trump's endorsement, facing congressmen Russell Fry and Ralph Norman, who say they are also running for the nomination. Graham was appointed by the state governor to fill her brother's term through January after Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly to lie 11th. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in 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 he was going to make me cry. Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there.
I need some a ref me, just as for my son.
