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against Iran after the Islamic Republic targeted a U.S. military base in Jordan. Yesterday
“Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netina who at the White House. We have more”
from NPR's Deepa Shiveram. U.S. Central Command says all missiles launched from Iran were intercepted Tuesday evening and that U.S. forces remain vigilant. Later, U.S. and Saudi Arabian forces hit Iran on-backed sites in Iraq. Trump speaking to Fox News earlier, "Lobbed profane threats against Iran," saying the U.S. would hit Iran hard. He said that Iran would "get
a beating." Just days ago, there was a pause in fighting and Trump declared there were friendly negotiations going on with Iran, which Iran denied. It's another example of the President saying there are efforts to wind down the war before ramping up attacks again. Mr. Shiveram and PR News, the White House. The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rates steady today, but left the door open to raising rates in the future if inflation
remains elevated. This was the second rate-setting meeting led by Kevin Warrish who took
over his chairman of the Central Bank in May. Warrish told lawmakers this month that he and his colleagues are determined to restore price stability after five years of uncomfortably high inflation. Democrats may be focusing on the wrong issues, as they try to understand their losses in the 2024 election, and you report shared exclusively with NPR's as a party still has not fully reckoned with why working-class voters moved away. The report called
the Left's Coalition Crisis finds there are huge gaps between the priorities of the party's college-educated liberal base and the working-class voters it needs to win over. There's a significant disconnect on issues from abortion and climate change to resisting authoritarianism.
“Says Joan Williams, one of the authors, "We need progressive economics." That's what the”
polling shed says. That's what the political science says, and we need to get a lot saviour about cultural issues. It doesn't mean abandoning progressive value, she says, but understanding and respecting those of the working class, Tamar Keith and PR News.
Lesson two weeks after the North America World Cup final drew more than a billion viewers
around the globe. FIFA plans a self-private investor's minority stakes and the commercial rights to soccer are depending on where you live, football's, biggest tournament, and PR's Lauren Fraer reports from London, FIFA's catching a lot of heat for it. European soccer's governing body UEFA issued a statement accusing FIFA of, quote, "attempting to sell the soul of football." And Britain's new prime minister Andy Burnham is joining
the criticism, without mentioning FIFA he posted on social media that the World Cup is not a product, and that football does not belong to investors it belongs to the people who fill the stance he wrote and shouldn't be sold out. This is MPR. The extreme heat that engulf much of the Southern U.S. earlier in the week has brought
dangerously high temperatures to parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada. And Pierre Scott Newman reports on heightened risks of medical emergency such as heat stroke. Douglas Cassa, CEO of the Corey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, says the early warning signs of heat stroke include dizziness, headache, nausea, and fatigue.
“Prevention is key. That means lots of water or drinks with electrolytes and wearing light-colored”
loose-fitting clothing. But if someone does fall ill to heat stroke, Cassa says there's
a simple and effective protocol to follow. It's cool first transport second.
He says people need to be treated in the first 30 minutes to prevent death and have the best outcome. That means before an ambulance arrives, immediate immersion in cold water is the way to go. He says even a lake or a stream is a good option. Scott Newman and PR News. The Dominican Republic has only one national zoo, and it is providing refuge to a rapidly growing
number of animals, including exotic species that were illegally smuggled before authorities confiscated them. He says their press reports local officials seized 188 animals last year up significantly from the 30 recorded seizures just two years earlier. Crocodile's tiger's flamingos and other species are being housed there. But a top official with the city's national zooological
park warrants is becoming more difficult on the country's lone zoo, adding quote, "people have a predisposition to owning wild animals." It's NPR News. Every episode of its Venominit, NPR's What's Happening in Culture Podcast starts by asking three questions, "Who? How? Why now?" If the culture's asking it, we're talking about it. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious and indulge your cultural curiosity. Follow
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