Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Iran Saturday announced a list of conditions the U.S. must meet before it allows passage
“of ships through the Strait of Hormuz again.”
They include the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iran's ports and stopping sanctions. Tim Wilkins is managing director of an industry group for oil, gas, and chemical tankers. He says despite the continuing problems, the U.S. is getting a small number of ships through. And what's happening is those vessels are contacting the U.S. they're transitioning through
what we call the southern or the Oman route, and those transits being tracked, basically,
by those assets. What we're being told is that those sort of novel assets are ready to intercept and they have planes ready, but all intents and purposes, those vessels are basically transiting and being monitored. That's basically the term of the U.S. facility transit.
To Senate passed a temporary spending bill that would keep the government funded through early December, NPR's Scott Newman has our reports. In a 90-to-six vote, the spending measure was passed in the early morning hours Saturday, by lawmakers before they head home for a five-week recess.
“The bill, which still must be approved by the House, generally keeps the government funded”
at current levels through December 11. This Democrats voted for the bill after securing a provision that blocks money for U.S. customs and border protection.
They also rejected a $1 billion request from the White House to begin work on a new Trump
class battleship. Since the 1990s Congress has frequently relied on temporary spending measures, instead of passing a comprehensive budget, Scott Newman and PR News, Washington. New helicopter pilots have died while fighting a Utah wildfire, member-station KUER's Carolyn Ballag has our reports.
The Friday morning crash ignited a fire around the craft, which made it unsafe to get close to the site. On Saturday, search and rescue crews were able to access the area and confirm the two deaths. The heavy-lift helicopter was one of seven assigned to the massive wide-mouth two-fire. So far, it's burned more than 110,000 acres in Central Utah, about three-hour south
of Salt Lake City.
“The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the crash.”
Intense and at times unpredictable fire conditions have fueled a deadly summer, a helicopter pilot died fighting a Colorado wildfire, and four firefighters died after being overcome by a fast-moving fire on the Colorado Utah border. For NPR News, I'm Caroline Ballard. A car bomb exploded Saturday in the southwestern region of Columbia, the bomb comes just
one day after the country's newest president was sworn into office. The attack took place at a toll plaza on the Pan-American highway officials say two security guards were injured. The Army says members of the group FARC were responsible for that attack. You're listening to NPR News.
militants affiliated with the Islamic State group attacked a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week. The village is close to the Ugandan border, at least 13 people were killed. The violence is forcing many residents to choose between staying or risking travel to other areas as the Ebola outbreak there continues.
About seven million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease.
That's a degenerative brain condition that has no cure. NPR's ping-wong reports on a new direction for treatments for the disease. One of the primary markers of Alzheimer's disease is a protein called Tao in its long-tangled form. New research in the journal Neuron shows that under stress Tao proteins enter mitochondria,
the part of the cell that converts nutrients to energy. They reverse the process causing the release of toxic molecules. Bingway Lou is a professor at Stanford Medicine and senior author on the paper. He naturally thinks this may actually help with organisms cope with this stress. But too much of this thing, you might actually kill neurons and cause this cognitive
deficit. Lou and his colleagues conducted research on flies, mice and lab grown neurons with signs of Alzheimer's. When the scientists blocked this process, each recovered and was more resilient to future stress.
Ping-wong and PR News. Former President Joe Biden's prostate cancer is now spread to other parts of his body at its causing impain. His son Hunter spoke about the cancer during an interview this weekend with the BBC. Biden said his father's condition is very sad to watch 83-year-old Joe Biden was the oldest
man to serve as a U.S. president. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. This week on Wayway, don't tell me we talked a legendary Oscar in Emmy-winning icon, Sally Field about her starring role in the 60s television series, The Flying None. I was on a 50-foot crane and they would climb into a sight of a building.
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