Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman, Defense Secretary Pete Hague Seth told C...
week that the Iran war is cost to U.S. almost $40 billion so far, but budgeting expert
“Linda Bills of Harvard University says that number is way too low.”
According to my analysis, the very upfront short term costs are to date about $120 billion. But that doesn't include another $250 billion for rebuilding the hundreds of U.S. facilities across the Middle East that have been destroyed or damaged, and then there are long-term costs and economic costs. And Billum says there are other reasons the government figure is so low for instance,
she says Hague Seth is using the original cost to account for munitions used, but replacement cost she says are at least 50 percent higher. Main Democrats voted overwhelmingly sad day to approve Troy Jackson, a fifth-generation logger and former legislative leader to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in
this false general election.
Kevin Miller with main public radio reports on one of the nation's closest watched congressional races.
“Jackson received all but five of the 571 votes cast by Democratic delegates during a special”
convention. He replaces Graham Platner, an Oysterman and Marine Corps veteran who withdrew earlier this month. Like Platner, Jackson pledged to work toward universal health care, to protect abortion rights, and to stand up to the Trump administration.
"And are you ready to defeat Susan Collins?" "Well, unless you night this party, let's build the largest working class movement main has ever seen, and let's win this fight." Jackson will now face Collins, a 30-year Senate veteran, who is the only Republican member of Congress from New England.
For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller. Fast-moving wildfires continue to burn and Southern Europe this weekend, and as NPR's
“elderbeards the reports, evacuations are underway near the southwest French city of Bordeaux.”
French Prime Minister Sebastian L'Aquel News said the fire had reached conditions that
"we have never seen before," President Emmanuel Macron has mobilized the army to assist,
as firefighters battle blazes, 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, out on our beardsley in Pior News, officials, meanwhile say the final stage of the Tour de France, which is the annual cycling race that ends in Paris will be shortened, that's because security forces have been reassigned to help with those fires. You're listening to NPR News.
German officials have issued a wanted notice for a suspect in an incident in an LGBTQ+ event in Berlin this weekend, they say the 21-year-old is responsible for driving a van into a crowd at a city park, one person was killed in at least 16 others injured and some of those injured may have been stabbed. Although we as he had a democrat, who is losing his house seat to redistricting, says he'll
run for his former state Senate seat instead of seeking reelection to Congress. His district was redrawn to favor a Republican, Brook Thoreington from member station WRKF and button rouge has more. For Congressman Cleo Fields, this is all too familiar. He represented the majority black fourth district in the 90s until the Supreme Court ruled
it an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. In 2025, he returned to Congress in the newly drawn sixth district seat, but this year Louisiana re-drew the map again. Now Field says he's hoping to return to the state Senate where he represented Baton Rouge. The Democrat says he isn't viewing this as a step down.
I come back to the state because this is where I feel like I've been most effective. This is hard to get things done in Washington, and particularly when you're not in a majority. He will finish his congressional term, January 3rd, for NPR News. I'm Brook Thoreington, in Baton Rouge. In a game low on defense team, Spoon B. T. Cooper, 129-122 Saturday night on the WNBA all
star game in Chicago. John Kwell Jones had 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists in the win. There were 127 three-point attempts in the game. The WNBS celebrating its 30th season this year. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
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