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Iran continues to say it's close to a deal with the Monde, open the Strait of Hormuz,
“but Iranian officials announced the new list of demands on the U.S. Saturday, and”
Paris Frank Lankford reports from Tel Aviv. "Mohammed Bogger's Old God," Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said the Strait won't reopen until the U.S. quote "corrects its behavior," according to Iranian state media. Iran's demands include the U.S. ending the war and "aggression" against Iran's allies
in Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and Iraq. Iran also insisted the U.S. provide full compensation for damage, from past attacks on the country. The demands appeared to dampen hopes that the Strait was about to reopen, President Trump initially predicted the war would last four to five weeks, it's now approaching six months.
The wars increased gas and other consumer prices, which Trump had pledged to bring down. The midterms are three months away, and P.R. reached out to the White House for comment on Iran's conditions, but has yet to hear back. Frank Lankford and P.R. News, Tel Aviv. Todd Blanche says he's deeply honored by the trust President Trump has placed in him to lead
the Justice Department.
“As Imperial Security Johnson reports, the Senate voted 50-49 Saturday morning to confirm”
Blanche as Attorney General. Blanche worked over time to convince skeptical Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana to support his nomination. The Senate ultimately confirmed Blanche as the nation's 88th Attorney General by a single vote.
Critics say Blanche presided over a DOJ that attacked the career workforce when after the President's political foes and botched the release of files connected to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But Senator Cassidy and others suggest anyone Trump would hired replace Blanche could be less qualified and less likely to push back on Trump's impulses.
Kerry Johnson in PR News.
More than 70 million Americans are under heat alerts at this hour and in some places, triple
digit heat has been lingering for weeks. His NPR Zamie held reports, a new survey, finds a growing number of people, say the ongoing extreme heat is changing the way they live.
“90% of people say extreme heat has had at least some impact on their lives.”
Up from 83% to years ago, the AP North survey finds a growing share of Americans say it's affecting their energy bills, outdoor activities, their sleep. One thing that's dropped, the percentage of Americans who say climate change is happening, two thirds down from three quarters to years ago. Human-cost climate change is making intense heat waves more likely.
Then there's the naturally occurring El Nino climate pattern forecast to intensify in the incoming months making above normal heat even like clear. This has highs and parts of the Western U.S. top 110 degrees. The National Weather Service says it's up to 12 degrees above normal for summer, Amy Held and PR News.
And this is NPR News. Some are travelers are feeling the effects of higher prices, both at the gas pump and when booking flights. His NPR Steven Bassaha reports, domestic and international airfares have risen since the start of the U.S. war with Iran.
An average domestic flight last week costs about $80 more than a year ago, according to the travel site Kayak. Henry Brinnell is a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton, and says even if a deal to reopen the street for Moose is reached, it'll take a long time for flights to get cheaper.
That's actually a similar pattern to what we saw following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It took about a year after gas prices started going down until we saw the same pattern with airfares. The average international flight was about $170 more expensive than the same time last year. Steven Bassaha and PR News.
After months of promises, the immigration and customs enforcement agency says every officer in the field should be equipped with a body camera by the end of the month. The announcement comes after several publicized killings by ICE agents making traffic stops, but it's not yet clear on whether the footage will ever be allowed to be seen by the general public.
The agency says it's not appropriate to release footage when doing so could compromise investigations or privacy. Satellite images show that an oil spill off the coast of Oman in the Middle East is continuing to spread right now. The ship Caroline Bezengi has been grounded for weeks after reporting an explosion back
in June. The tanker is part of Russia's shadow fleet. The spill is now covered more than 3,000 square miles of water in his continuing to spread rapidly. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
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