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US military says it lodged a heavy wave of strikes in Iran overnight, Iran responded
“with more attacks on US military targets in Jordan, and here's Jain Iraq has more from”
Iran." US Central Command said it hit military command centers in missile facilities in Iran. Iran says it fired missiles at a US air base within a Jordanian base in the eastern desert. The US and Jordan said they shot down those missiles.
The US air strikes were retaliation for what Central Command called a surprise Iranian attack on the same base on Wednesday. In Iraq, where the US and Saudi Arabia hit Iran back to militia bases on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people. Those militias have given the Iraqi government a deadline of a week from now, to respond
to the attacks.
Jain Iraq and PR News, among.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is postponing today's scheduled vote on Todd Blanch's nomination to be Attorney General.
“Late last night, the committee announced the vote was being put on hold because of demands”
from two Republican senators related to the Justice Department's deal with President Trump to end his IRS lawsuit. And here's Ryan Lucas, has more. A spokesperson said senators, John Corning of Texas and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, both Republicans, want written assurances from the Justice Department related to President Trump's
settlement to end his IRS lawsuit over his leaked tax returns. Blanch needs the support of every committee Republican for his nomination to advance. Corning and Tillis have both said they won't support Blanch without the written guarantees they are seeking from the Justice Department. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.
And either Tillis or Corning are seeking reelection. President was defeated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whom Trump supported in the state's Republican primary in May. A new Trump administration rule is letting asylum officers send some cases directly to immigration court in an effort to reduce the backlog of applications.
But in analysis by NPR, it shows it's one more way. The government is chipping away at a program thousands of people rely on to escape violence and persecution. And here's Jimena Bustillo has more. I analyze immigration court data that shows asylum approvals are at their lowest rate in two
decades. The White House has a decline to respond to this, but in April it promoted record low asylum approvals at immigration courts. In that statement, the White House said that they have replaced activist judges who "slow walked deportations and granted asylum at sky high rates."
And here's Jimena Bustillo reporting. Roof Financial Markization markets both Tokyo and Hong Kong closed higher, the Nikai in Japan of seven tenths of a percent the hangs sang in Hong Kong up two tenths. You're listening to NPR news.
A $100 billion data center campus will be built on federally owned land in our Western
Kentucky that once housed a uranium enrichment plant. Derek Operley, with Member Station WKMS, has more. The privately funded project will see Trugen Dollar Investment firm Brookfield develop a massive 1.8 gigawatt data center, while next era energy will build and operate a 2 gigawatt natural gas plant that feeds excess electricity into the regional grid.
“Congressman Andy Barr says Paduka played a key role in the U.S. Post World War II nuclear”
strategy. And this is another once-in-a-generation opportunity for the region. A place that once helped America win the Cold War will now help America win the AI race. This isn't the only big project underway around the Department of Energy's Paduka site. Two new private uranium enrichment facilities are in the works, one with connections to
billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Teele. For NPR news, I'm Derek Operley in Paduka, Kentucky. Shares of social media giant meta are lower in pre-market trading down about 10%. After the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, Mr. Investor expectations on earnings as met as AI build-out costs, including hiring top AI talent and spending billions from
massive data centers, soared. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defends his costly push-in to AI as the company prepares to sell some of that excess data center capacity, saying on an earnings call it is a balance on whether to see that excess computing power or to save it for meta. You're listening to NPR news.
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