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The U.S. military says Iran launched multiple missiles at American forces in the Middle East.
“That ends the recent pause in fighting as mediators tried to get both sides back to negotiations.”
U.S. Central Command says all the missiles were successfully intercepted. It says U.S. forces quote "remain vigilant" at a high state of readiness and American Saudi forces struck an American and Saudi forces struck sites used by Iran back militias in Iraq to carry out attacks in recent days. President Trump spoke at the funeral of South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
today, Trump called Graham a true American original, as NPR's "deepest shiver" on reports. Trump and Graham had an openly hostile relationship when the two were running for president in 2016, but in his U.S. Trump-lauded Graham, who died earlier this month. He went out of the peak of his career, the top of his game is a legend that everyone of us, many of us here today, blessed to know him and a friend that none of us will ever forget.
There was truly nobody like Lindsey Graham. Graham was a staunch advocate for U.S. support for Ukraine and Israel before his death. He authored a bill to put energy sanctions on Russia and use the relationship he'd
“built with Trump to secure White House support for it.”
Deepish Ivaram and PR news the White House.
In the Senate took the first step toward passing a Russia sanctions bill.
Tonight, Graham was its chief negotiator. Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul released a trove of what he says are diary entries written by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci sent to appear in front of Paul's Senate Committee tomorrow as NPR's already Daniel explains.
In a post on ex-health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested his office had provided the diaries to Senator Paul, but it's not clear exactly how Paul did publish a thread on ex where he summarized his central accusation of Fauci. He said, quote, "What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories."
NPR's are a Daniel reporting more than 1100 workers at AI companies have signed a petition calling on the government to back a global effort to pace the development of AI and PR's John Rooch reports. The petition says it's not guaranteed that AI will help create a better future and to realize AI's potential, we may need the option to, quote, "by time to address emerging
risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight." Leading AI companies believe they're close to automating AI research and the petition says it's unclear how much this could accelerate AI progress, with a risk that it accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems. Having the signatories are some of the top scientists and researchers in the field working
at companies including OpenAI and Thropic, Meta and Google, John Rooch and PR News. Most US stocks wrote today after companies reported stronger profits for the spring than expected. This is NPR.
Johnson and Johnson has agreed to pay five and a half billion dollars to settle lawsuits
that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drug maker has been dealing with talc-related lawsuits for years. The Megalaway project is one of the largest conservation efforts in New England in recent years, nearly 80,000 acres in the Northwoods of Western Maine have been protected from development from Maine Public Radio Susan Sharon reports.
The land surrounding the Megalaway River is heavily forested with lakes and ponds. It's a popular fly fishing and birding destination, but it also supports the region's wood products in district, Mark Barry of the Nature Conservancy in Maine says the project is strategically significant because it's surrounded by half a million acres that have previously been conserved.
There are a lot of pressures on our forests, so to have such a wild place now secured for future generations is very gratifying. Under the terms of the deal, public access for recreation will continue along with sustainable timber harvesting, but 11,000 acres will also be set aside as a wilderness preserve. For NPR News, I'm Susan Sharon.
Kentucky Fried Chicken Founder, Harlan Sanders' pressure cooker, black bow tie, and dozens of his personal items are up for public auction in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Sanders sold KFC in 1964 to a group of investors that continued as a brand ambassador, not
“up for auction, the 11 herbs and spices that make up KFC's secret original recipe,”
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