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The U.S. did not attack Iran last night for a second night.
Tehran also says it's halted strikes.
“It's not clear when negotiations may resume.”
Republican Mike Turner is a member of the House Armed Services Committee. He says there's growing concern in Congress on how the war is going. There's bipartisan frustration on Capitol Hill. You're seeing it. Republicans' Democrats that are showing their frustration with how this war is being
this conflict is being prosecuted. Senator Chris Van Holland, a Democrat, says the war is using resources that may be needed elsewhere.
We have depleted our interceptors, which are the weapons we use to intercept incoming
Iranian attacks, which are obviously necessary to protect American troops. And so we are depleting these every day, despite the fact that we could face other potential conflicts around the world.
“Both men were interviewed on ABCs this week.”
In Germany, authorities say there's mounting evidence to suggest that a vehicle that rammed into a crowd during Berlin Pride was an Islamic terror attack. As been Nicholson reports, one person was killed, and 29 others were wounded. Speaking to journalists, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrin set the suspect 21-year-old Abdul Baloud was radicalised by and affiliated with the Islamist scene.
The suspect drove a white fan into a crowd of people on the edges of Berlin's Pride parade, shortly up to 10pm last night. Police sight witnesses who say they saw at least one man flee the vehicle. Federal Interior Minister Dobrin says the man was believed to have been carrying a machete, and several of the injured have stabbed wounds.
The suspect is still at large, and a man hunters ongoing. Police warned that he may be armed, from Pionnih's "I'm Asminicalson" in Munich.
“The national average price for a gallon of gasoline has climbed back above the $4 mark,”
as fighting in the Middle East is driving oil prices higher. NPR's Windsor Johnston has more on the story. The latest jump in energy prices could add to inflation and race costs for consumers. Bob McNally is the founder of the Rapid Anne Energy Group. He tells NPR that the US has used up much of the cushion that helped limit the impact of earlier disruptions.
"We've had these inventories that we drew down, and we had China go on a crash diet. Going forward, the price mechanism will have to do more of the balancing if we can't get those flows from Hormuz resuming." Experts also warn that damage to major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia could take months or years to repair, leaving the global market with fewer options if supplies tighten.
Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News in Washington. Parts of the Northwest US are blanketed in dense smoke after new wildfires broke out in Oregon and Washington, tens of thousands of acres have burned. Christopher Nolan's film, The Odyssey, is playing on more than 25,000 screens worldwide.
A broad release that will get even broader when China and Japan and Korea open the film next month. NPR's Bob Mandelo reports. Nolan Superfans are touting the virtues of seeing the Odyssey on one of the mere 41 screens, 25 in the US and another 16 abroad that are equipped to play 70mm iMac's film, the format of the Odyssey was shot in, but there are plenty of what the industry calls premium
large format auditoriums, including digital iMacs and conventional 70mm. They represent about 1% of Odyssey's showings, but because audiences are eager to see the film on the biggest possible screen, that 1% is pulling in 20% of ticket sales. That means that after creating special cameras so that Nolan could shoot the Odyssey entirely
on iMac's film, which is a Hollywood first, the company now has a fresh challenge, it
is racing to fill construction orders for dozens of new iMac's auditoriums, Bob Mandelo and PR News. Happy Birthday Punch. The monkey was born in a zoo in Japan one year ago today. He was rejected by his mother, so zookeepers gave him a stuffed animal in a rangatene.
Pictures of him clutching it went viral. Since then, punch no longer needs the toy as he's made monkey friends, but he still has human fans. Zookeepers say he's received thousands of birthday cards from around the world. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News in Washington.
