"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Newer Ram.
After two weeks of nightly U.S. strikes against Iran, it was quiet last night, but President
“Trump has said an escalation of strikes is a possibility.”
NPR's Emily Fang is covering the war from Israel, sure reports people in the Middle East are expecting more violence." Trump said this week he got in reports Iran moved uranium refining centrifuges deep under this massive mountain called pickaxe mountain, and he said the U.S. was likely to strike the mountain quote very heavily.
I've seen it increasingly a sign of a split in Iran between hardliners and moderates there, over whether diplomacy or war is the preferred approach to the U.S. and for example just this week in Iran's government accused its own state broadcaster of censoring Iran's president. So there's a lot of uncertainty in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France withdrew their diplomats
from Tehran this week as a precaution, and here in Israel where I am, governments locally are opening up public shelters once again in anticipation of possible bonnings from Iran. NPR's Emily Fang Democrats and Maine today picked their choice to challenge Republican senators Susan Collins, and one of the most closely watched races this fall.
“It's Troy Jackson, a longer and a former president of the state Senate.”
He says this is a new day for Maine Democrats. There is a place in this campaign for all of you. There is work for you in this movement, and I will spend every day now through November earning not trust because today we turn the page. Today this becomes a general election campaign, and today we will be in the work of defeating
Susan Collins in November. The hastily called convention was required after the previous front runner Graham Platner suspended his campaign earlier this month. When a woman he once dated accused him of rape, which he has denied. President Trump returned to the rescheduled White House Correspondence Association in
the last night after the annual event was brought to an abrupt end by a gunman in April. SNPR's Ava Poocage reports the president used his speech at the event to make familiar jobs at the media. In his hour-long speech, President Trump called out several reporters by name.
He said CNN's Caitlin Collins quote "never smiles" and said her reporting, which was
awarded earlier in the night, was "fake". He called incoming White House Correspondence Association president Jackie Heinrich "nasty". He recounted how many bad headlines he had in the New York Times and said he's personally responsible for keeping the press employed. "When I'm not around, you're going to be broke.
There's not going to be anybody to report on. Nobody gives a damn about anybody else." He ended to speech by putting on a Trump 2028 hat saying it would help the press's ratings. Eva Poocage and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington.
“A slate of popular peptide therapies has won the backing of a key advisory panel to the”
federal government.
This is just the first step that could eventually open up broader access to the experimental
drugs. NPR's Will Stone reports. The panel of advisors recommended the Food and Drug Administration reclassify almost all of the compounds under consideration, so that specialized pharmacies in the U.S. could begin offering them.
The outcome represents a win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who has publicly supported peptide therapies and the broader wellness and longevity industry, which stands to profit substantially. The yes votes run countered to the FDA's own position, scientists repeatedly cautioned that there was limited data on safety and efficacy in humans.
These peptides are not approved drugs. They are promoted widely online for uses like injury recovery, muscle growth, and more. The final decision is up to the FDA, which typically follows the panel's recommendations. Will Stone and PR News. French authorities say more than 140,000 people have been forced from their homes by wildfires
in the southwestern part of the country. Science of thousands more are fleeing wildfires in Spain. Scientists say the region has become more vulnerable due to a hotter temperatures caused by climate change. The wildfires are prompting the tort of France to cut short tomorrow's final stage, where
cyclists of dry, dry through the streets of Paris. Officials say there aren't enough people to maintain security because they're off fighting the fires. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News, in Washington. This season of Planet Many Summer School, we go to China, one of the world's biggest economies.
And what we learned is Americans are crazy, Chinese are crazy. These are two countries full of these crazy hustlers. The US and China are more alike than you might think. On Planet Many Summer School, a strange lesson about success, how to handle the downsides of progress.
