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lows after the U.S. suspended air strikes on Rondo for the weekend. And President Trump
says Washington has been having good talks with Tehran. Matt Smith is lead oil analyst at Kepler.
“"There's the hope I think from the U.S. side of things, this encourages the Iranians”
to come to the table with some type of diplomacy here. We've seen that that we believe that's a be unlikely." Oil flow through the strait of Hormuz remains disrupted. The war with Iran is expected to come up today as President Trump meets with Israeli and Ukrainian leaders at the White House. They're in Washington for the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham. There's a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol where the Republican from South Carolina
served for more than 30 years, followed by a funeral service at the National Cathedral.
Graham is set to be buried tomorrow in South Carolina. In Spain crews are battling wildfires
that have devastated nearly 200,000 acres. As NPR's Miguel Naseyus reports, the next hours are key to those efforts. "Firefighting crews took advantage of the lower temperatures overnight to make progress at the three main fires burning in Spain. The wildfire in the region of Abila, which started
“last week when it's day, is not the largest on record in the country. Prime Minister”
Pedro Sanchez visited the affected areas in the region of Castellón, in eastern Spain, where another fire has been active for the past four days. He said the next hours ahead of an upcoming heat wave are vital. "Antiun aumento de temperatura como Sanchez asked citizens to be extremely careful and take every measure to prevent more fires. Miguel Maseyus and Pianíus severe Spain."
While fires also raging in France, President Manuel Macron calls it the most severe situation the country has faced since World War II. In this already record year for Cycle Spora, the parasite is still expected to sicken thousands more in the U.S. And Pianíus, you can do Gucci reports it's happening in the aftermath of deep cuts to public health. "For money to handle outbreaks and food safety states rely mostly on grants from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The Trump Administration's
“cuts to federal agencies slashed those grants. Sarah Sorcerer is regulatory affairs director”
for the Center for Science and the Public Interest." "Delays lack of clarity, just time-to-solving problems are all symptoms of this broader issue that, in particular, state and local public health departments are in crisis." Many states have cut staff who investigate outbreaks, she says, leading to consumer confusion about which foods are safe to eat. You can a Gucci and PR news.
In earthquake struck Japan's southern region today, USGS says it had a magnitude of 6.8. It's knocked out power to thousands of homes and stopped rail services. This is NPR News. A new report is warning the Trump Administration's slashing of the federal workforce has hurt the government's ability to keep producing reliable statistics about the U.S. population and economy. NPR's Honsilo Wang reports, many agencies are facing historic staffing
losses. Compared to the start of last year, the federal government has fewer sassstitions and other experts working on the official numbers at track inflation, public health and other parts of life in the U.S. According to report by the American Statistical Association, most of
the dozen or so major statistical agencies have lost at least one-third of their workers
and many leadership positions are unfilled. The report warns it will take years to rebuild the expertise needed to keep up regular releases of reliable statistics in the future. A recent Trump Administration policy is also raising concerns. It bans a Census Bureau from using a type of data privacy protection that the administration says has been used indiscriminately and undermined confidence in the U.S. statistics. Experts say the ban could reduce the
amount of statistics about local communities that the Bureau can put out from the National Headcount and Government surveys. Honsilo Wang and PR News. acker-barrel CEO Julie Masino is stepping down nearly a year after an attempted rebrand and failed plan to change the company's logo led to customer backlash and slumping sales. David Denno, a former executive at the parent companies of Outback Statehouse, KFC and Taco Bell,
is set to succeed Masino next month. Stocks in South Korea fell nearly 11% to 3-month low while Japan's Nikkei indexed the loss almost 4%. The drops are driven by a sell-off and semiconductor stocks. Investors are worried about whether heavy spending on AI will be sustainable. And you're listening to NPR News. We've just marked one year since Congress voted to eliminate federal funding for public
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