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The United States has launched another round of air strikes on Iran overnight while
Tehran hit back against targets in the Gulf in Jordan, and PR's Dana Raff reports that latest attacks come amid renewed efforts to revive a collapse ceasefire between the two sides." U.S. Central Command said targets overnight included aircraft hangers and drone storage sites. Iranian state media reported explosions in seven Iranian provinces and said U.S. attacks
included a strike on an electrical installation close to a nuclear power plant. Iran said it attacked targets in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Countries with an extensive U.S. military presence.
“Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthi rebels backed by Iran, declared that a key red sea waterway”
Babel Mundob would be off limits to Saudi Arabia. oil prices rose again Wednesday, partly in response to the news. Jane Raff and Pyrenees, among the House has advanced to build that would extend government funding until after the midterm elections, ending the package to the Senate. Six Democrats joined with nearly all Republicans in support of the bill.
NPR's Eric McDaniel reports and a majority leader, John Thune, says the upper chamber will act on the measure before leaving town for the August recess.
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 Thune 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 chambers typical 60 vote threshold using a parliamentary quirk known as reconciliation. Eric McDaniel and Pyrenees Washington.
New York City mayors O'Ran, mom Donnie, is calling on the federal government to enforce an international criminal court arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the city this fall. My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the international criminal courts arrest warrant with Benjamin Netanyahu
came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.
“The ICC issued the warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza.”
This office has rejected the comments calling the ICC a kangaroo court with no jurisdiction over Israel or the United States, Netanyahu is expected to visit the United Nations in September. We're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Senate committee is scheduled to vote this week on whether to advance President Trump's
choice to leave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and PR's Pinkhwang reports Dr. Erica Schwartz says she would take a different approach to public health. In her recent confirmation hearing, Schwartz said she would change how the CDC communicates with people. I want to be the CDC director for all Americans.
I don't want to be a paternalistic CDC director. Schwartz said she wanted to serve both Americans that believe in vaccines and those that have concerns. The taps annoyed a bait over how to build public trust after the challenges of the COVID pandemic.
Jessica Steyer founded the Health Communications Company on biased science. It's no longer just about being the smartest person in the room or being the expert. That means nothing if people won't listen to you. Steyer says public health has data and good intentions, but needs to be more relatable to people.
Pinkhwang and PR News.
The Trump administration has announced that it's withholding more than a billion dollars
in Medicaid payments to California in Minnesota as an investigates suspected fraud. Federal health officials are calling on the states to provide documentation to support certain claims, including payments for in-home care services. Steyer officials deny any wrongdoing and say the move is politically motivated. The Department of Health and Human Services says the funding has been deferred not permanently
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