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somber duties as commander-in-chief. He is attending the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members killed in action in the U.S. war with Iran. Before leaving, joint base andres for Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Trump told reporters he was about to carry out one of the hardest duties of his presidency.
“Well, all I'm going to say is we love you. We love your child. And that's what they”
are to them. They're their children. There's no games. No nothing. That's their child. And all you could do is throw out your hearts. Since the U.S. and Israel went to war with Iran and late February, at least 18 American troops have been killed. The Iranian government says it has lost thousands of its citizens, many of them civilians. Trump is wrapping up threats on Iran. In a post on social media,
he said the U.S. would destroy bridges and power plants. If Iran shoots a ships in the state of Hormuz, here's NPR's Deepa Shivaram. A tacking civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime, but Trump says from now onward if Iran fires missiles, rockets, drones, or any other weapons at ships in the state of Hormuz, the U.S. would respond by bombing one bridge or power plant. He added that those could include ones located in or near Iran's
“capital city, Tehran. The escalation comes as Trump has said he has no interest in meeting”
with Iranian negotiators. The war has gone on months longer than Trump said it would, and support for Trump's actions abroad and the higher price of goods that have come with it is dropping even among his base. Deepa Shivaram and PR News. By a vote of 220 to 205, the U.S. House of Representatives has advanced a bill that would extend a government funding until after the midterm elections. Six Democrats joined nearly all Republicans to send the funding
package to the Senate where majority leader John Thunes said the Chamber would act before leaving town for the August recess. And PR's Eric McDaniel reports. Republicans want to
avoid a third government shutdown. This one coming just ahead of the midterm elections.
Democrats have forced two record-breaking shutdown since President Trump began a second term. The first over federal subsidies for health insurance plans and the second over funding for the president's immigration enforcement agenda after federal personnel killed Americans in Minnesota earlier this year. Leader Thunes says so work on a different version of the funding extension in order to attract needed support from Senate Democrats. If that doesn't pan out,
he has a plan to pass a funding extension on a party line vote avoiding the Chamber's typical 60 vote threshold using a parliamentary work known as reconciliation. Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. Hearts of the Gulf Coast are bracing for tropical storm birth as impact. People from Louisiana to Florida are expecting flood generating rainfall and destructive wind gusts.
It's a second name storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. This is NPR.
The cyclists for outbreak in multiple states is officially the worst on record with more than 4,100 confirmed cases so far this year. And PR's you can go to reports why the CDC numbers are likely to climb. The CDC's data only include cases states have tested and confirmed to have found cyclists for it and still samples from patients with serious diarrhea symptoms. Depending on the state, that confirmation and reporting can take many weeks,
which is why actual numbers of people ill from this water and foodborne illness is likely much much higher. There are several clusters of outbreaks, but the largest by far is in Michigan and Ohio, and officials say the source is iceberg lettuce made by Taylor Farms in Mexico, which has been recalled. You can go to Gucci and PR News. Scientists say they hope and you NASA telescope will give them insights into black holes. Here's WIPR, Scott Masiani. The hardest part about observing
black holes is that they're black and hard to see. Even on a high resolution telescope,
“the best way to look for them is to look at the stars they're shredding apart with their massive”
gravitational poles. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on August 30th,
partly to detect black holes that existed up to 11 billion years ago.
Mitchell Carmen, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is the lead on the study. Studying black holes is really studying the most extreme parts of physics, and it's all a part of trying to understand how the world works. The Roman telescope will have the same resolution as the Hubble Telescope, both a much larger field of view.
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