Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Iran says it's approved an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that would allow
“Iranian authorities to oversee inbound shipping traffic, but the White House says no country”
will be allowed to control the waterway. And Pierce Franco or Donas has more. President Trump had been saying all week that good things were happening and then a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz would happen very soon, but the split of her who controls the Strait has thrown the agreement into question.
Justin Logan of the Think Tank Kato Institute pointed to the differing interpretations of one single paragraph, paragraph five of that MOU that caused all the problems. It's a bit like the unstoppable force that meets the removable object. I mean, neither country's public position at least has changed significantly, and
that was what caused the memorandum of understanding to implode in the first place.
Iran continues to maintain, they want control over the Strait. While the U.S. is seeking a return to the status quo, Franco or Donas and PR news. President Trump is speaking out against Governor Greg Abbott's pause on data centers from
“a member station Houston public media, Natalie Weber has more.”
Speaking with Punch Bowl News this week, the president said data centers bring money to communities. "I saw a Texas yet today sort of against data centers. I think it's a mistake." That has issued a pause on new data center approvals until the state's energy agencies
conduct an audit of their electricity and water use.
This comes in contrast with Abbott's previous comments about data centers, calling Texas
"the epicenter of AI development" in November. Data centers and other large energy consumers in Texas are requesting more than five times the amount of energy used to power the entire state during record-breaking demand. Here in PR news, I'm Natalie Weber in Houston. In Puerto Rico, water rationing started today as the island deals with the historic
drought. The water authority says water will be shut off for rotating 48-hour periods in parts of the capital San Juan and surrounding areas. And here's Adrian Floreto, has more. The island's public water utility has, for the better part of a year, not being able to deliver
water to a lot of people's homes. So although the formal rationing is starting today, a lot of people have been coping for months without water for days at a time. In terms of how they're coping, whether cooking less, aving less, letting their plants wilt, storing water in buckets and bins when they do get water, filling them up and
storing the water, they're buying a lot of bottled water. Impires, Adrian Floreto. Some are usually very wet. It's the hurricane season, but there's been almost no rain for months. The summer is the island's driest and more than a century.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia signed up mutual defense agreement, meaning an attack on one is an attack on all. That's similar to the NATO agreement and alliance of 32 member states. This, as Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, increased attacks on Saudi-linked targets.
The group is blamed for an attack in Yemen and another in Saudi Arabia yesterday. The attacks have escalated tension since a 22-truse. The Pentagon is released a new set of files showing unidentified flying objects. As impures Jeff Rumfield reports, it's the latest round in an ongoing effort to document weird things in the sky.
A flock of mysterious lights flying over the South China Sea, a black triangle in the sky above Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan in 2002, and a report of a large mental sphere with a body inside that fell from the sky and landed in a city in Brazil in 1963. These are but a few of the oddities in the Pentagon's latest UFO files, or rather UAP files, since these incidents are now called unidentified aerial phenomena.
The Pentagon has released hundreds of files in videos since President Trump called for more transparency around UAPs so far, number-by-clear evidence of alien visitors.
“It appears the truth is still out there.”
Jeff Rumfield and BR News. And fittingly for all UX files fans out there, today is David DuCrav news birthday. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, another progressive Democrat, Edges Out, and Establishment Candidate, a dual LC-Ed, one Michigan Senate primary campaigning on affordability, health care,
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