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Yemen say they've attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. While Iran says it launched
“more drones that American military bases in Kuwait today. There's no word on any casualties.”
This says U.S. Central Command says American forces attacked Iranian targets for a 12th consecutive night. This follows President Trump's threat issued yesterday saying the U.S. military would bomb and destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant. Anytime Iran attacks a ship in the state of Hormuz. Pentagon says the state remains open to commercial ship traffic amid the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. Triple A says regular gasoline in the U.S. is back up to $4.9
cents a gallon on average amid the fighting in the Middle East. The houses pass three pieces of legislation and sent them to the Senate before lawmakers leave Washington for a month-long recess.
They include a defense bill costing more than a trillion dollars sold by President Trump.
The house also passed a budget framework which includes more money for the war with Iran, as well as new restrictions on congressional stock trading. NPR's Eric McDaniel says the
“Senate won't consider any of the bills as written. Bill's generally need 60 votes in order to”
pass in the Senate and that means that two of these, which lacks substantial democratic support, are dead on arrival there. Even democratic military boosters have spoken out against the trillion dollar national defense authorization act, usually a bipartisan success story in this time way laid by recent American service member deaths in Trump's war on Iran. And House Republicans attached to voter ID bill to their stock trading restrictions, restrictions that don't require
members to shed their personal financial stakes and publicly traded companies. Both policies concern Democrats. Senate Republicans could pass the Iran and Farm and Election Package on their own, but Senate Majority Leader John Thunes says he's holding that bill back for other reasons. Eric McDaniel and Piano's the capital. A panel of experts has expected to make recommendations on whether the food and drug administration should lift restrictions on some popular wellness
peptides available in the US. NPR's Will Stone says the panel is convening today. BPC-157, MOTC, TB-500. These are some of the peptides to Georgia that are being considered by the advisors to the FDA. None of them are approved drugs and they have not undergone rigorous studies in humans, but they're promoted widely for injury recovery, longevity, metabolism, and more. House Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he supports lifting the current prohibition
on the manufacturing of these products, so patients can get them from specialized pharmacies. The FDA's own scientists, however, are recommending against doing that, saying there's not enough data on safety and effectiveness. The committee will vote on seven peptides today in Friday, FDA leadership will have the final say. Will Stone and PR News. This is NPR News from Washington. Coastal areas of Louisiana and Texas remain under tropical storm warnings because of
Bertha. The storm continues moving to the west across the Gulf of Mexico. It's picked up speed in the last 24 hours. The National Hurricane Center in Florida says Bertha will likely move near or along the Louisiana and Texas coastlines through the afternoon before pushing inland tonight. That storm is expected to dissipate over Texas by tomorrow. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington is now empty and fenced off. NPR's Rachel Treesman reports
renovations to the pool are ongoing. The reflecting pool renovations were supposed to take two weeks, but they're now in their fourth month. It was drained after the fourth of July to address algae blooms and peeling paint. Several DC-based photographers and bloggers are still going to the pool nearly every day to share photos of what it looks like. Lori Collins is one of them.
“We're living inside the documentary that people I think are going to study a hundred years from now.”
She says she gets comments from people all over the world who care about the state of the pool and by extension the country. Rachel Treesman and PR News. Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla have fallen in after hours trading after the company reported its latest earnings following yesterday's closing bell on Wall Street. Tesla says sales jumped 25 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago. However, the EV maker says net income
dropped as it spent nearly $6 billion largely on the development of AI and its humanoid robot
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