"With life from MPR news and Washington, on Lyndy Kenyan, tensions remain hig...
the US and Iran even after the US said it ended its attacks for the first time in two weeks.
“But as NPR is emily firing reports, countries in the Middle East are still preparing for”
an escalation in the war." Trump said this week he thought in reports Iran moved uranium refining centrifuges deep under a huge mountain called Pickax Mountain, and so the US was likely to strike the mountain, quote, "very heavily." And Iran, hardliners have been pushing for increased military action against the US and its allies, while rhetoric from senior leaders calling for negotiation has been dampened.
This week the United Kingdom, Germany and France withdrew their diplomats from Tehran as a precaution, in case the war with Iran takes up a notch. And across Israel, municipalities reopened public shelters, citing an increased risk of bombing from Iran in the coming days. Mollifang and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv.
President Trump's latest set of tariffs comes at a challenging time for the US economy. They're also raising concerns about the cost of living among American households. NPR's Rafael Norm has the story.
“The White House frames the sweeping new tariffs ranging from 10 to 12.5 percent as a matter”
of human rights and market fairness. Although they're not significantly higher than the temporary ones they were placing, economists caution that we likely have a negative economic impact. The budget lab at Yale University estimates it could drive up consumer inflation by 0.7 percentage points, and will boost equivalent to attacks of nearly $1,100 a year on American
households. That, at a time when many families are already struggling with high gas prices and paying more at the grocery store, and they will continue the uncertainty being felt by American businesses. While fires continue to rage in southern Europe, NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports, evacuations
are underway in the suburbs of the southwest French city of Bordeaux. French Prime Minister Sebastian Lacoulonou said the fire had reached conditions that, quote,
"We have never seen before," and that more than 141,000 people have been evacuated
from the Girond and Lond region, which lie close to Bordeaux. President Emmanuel Macron has mobilized the army to assist as firefighters battle blazes as they say are spreading quickly in high winds and across parts planned. Fires are also raging near the Spanish capital of Madrid, scientists say Europe is heating faster than other places on the planet due to man-made global warming conditions.
Three consecutive heat waves have left drought conditions across the continent. EU figures say more than 1,200 fires have already burned through 600,000 acres this year. You're listening to NPR News in Washington, a slate of popular peptide therapies is one
“the backing of a key advisory panel to the federal government.”
This is just the first step in a series of steps that could eventually open up broader access to these experimental drugs and PR'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 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. Remember punch the monkey?
They orphaned primate out of Japanese zoos marking his first birthday tomorrow. Punch who stole people's hearts by clinging to an orangutan plush toy, still attracts big crowds. He's received more than 2,000 birthday cards from around the world. Punch whose mother abandoned him when he was a baby, now has made friends at the zoo.
The zoo also says he no longer appears to be bullied by the other monkeys, and, you know, longer holds onto that plush toy.
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