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For the second night in a row, the U.S. didn't attack Iran last night, and Tehran has also
halted strikes, but it's not clear when peace negotiations may resume. This is the U.S. Iran War enters its sixth month. Republican Mike Turner, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, tells ABC's this week, "There's a growing concern in Congress about how the war is going. And here's Eric McDaniel, he's more."
Representative Turner is the former head of the House Intel Committee. He says Iran is not a reliable negotiating partner and can't be trusted with a nuclear weapon. Fan Holland, a Maryland Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, notes the war has lasted much longer than the country was promised at the expense of kitchen table issues.
Donald Trump said we won back in March, and now we're in July, why are Americans still getting killed?
Why is the state of Hormuz still closed?
“Why are oil and gas prices going back through the roof again?”
President's war is unpopular among the American public. It comes years after Trump withdrew from an Obama era agreement that international watchdog say was keeping the country's nuclear program in check, Eric McDaniel and Pyrenees in Washington. I had of the midterms in November, Democrats in Maine made their choice to try to take the
seat of Republican senators Susan Collins, Troy Jackson, a logger who served as the president of the state's Senate. He's expected to campaign on affordability among other issues. Leave Mr. from Member Station, Maine, public has more. Democrats are really trying to draw this contrast between the Trump administration's
coosiness with wealthy interests in the conditions of ordinary Americans, and it's a direct play into the affordability case Democrats want to make during the midterms amid rising gas prices and inflation, you name it. And Jackson can credibly talk about those struggles because he comes from a poor rural family that's struggle to get by it.
“Steve Missler reporting from Maine, public officials say more than 300,000 people have”
been evacuated across parts of France and Spain as wildfires continue to ravage southern Europe. And here's Eleanor Bearsley reports. The landscape is parched after three deadly heat waves so far this summer. evacuation orders were issued in five more villages around the southwestern French city
of Bordeaux, Saturday night, more than 200,000 people have been forced out of their homes as the Maine blaze continues to rip through the pine forest of this year-owned region propelled by strong winds. Thousands of firefighters are being assisted by around 3,000 soldiers and other security forces.
European Union firefighting aircraft and helicopters have also been deployed in Spain, wildfires are continuing to burn throughout the Madrid region. The Spanish government has declared a national emergency and around 100,000 people have been evacuated. Eleanor Bearsley in Pyrenees.
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Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez has returned to his country to face corruption charges. He had been extradited to the United States for drug trafficking and he was sentenced to 45 years in prison, but president Trump pardoned him. Hernandez led Honduras from 2014 to 2022 and was once a U.S. ally in the drug war, but
he now faces charges in Honduras related to a case involving public funds. This amid worries that a weak justice system and his parties return to the presidency will ensure his impunity. If 57-year-old will be a rain next month, and he maintains his innocence. Interior department says new rules for managing the Colorado River will come this week
this after years of negotiations. For member station KJ ZZ, Alex Hager reports the agency bought seven western governors together for a last minute round of talks. Those governors represent the seven states that used the shrinking Colorado River. Their under pressure to rain in demand, but can't agree on how to share water in the
future. It appears the meeting did not break their deadlock. In a post on social media Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs says she remains committed to ongoing negotiations, but steadfast in calling on Arizona's upstream counterparts to share the pain of shortages.
The plan is expected to slash the water supply for cities in the Phoenix area. The federal government had to come up with its own plans since the states couldn't agree. Interior may take input from Arizona, California, and Nevada, which are likely to bear the brunt of cutbacks. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager, in Phoenix.
And I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
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