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President Trump says he has some of his own financial demands after Iran called for compensation
“to end the war, and appears for Franco Ordoni as reports on the ongoing standoff.”
President Trump took to social media expressing his frustration after the Iranian foreign ministers said that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was contingent on the U.S. paying Iran, quote, "compensation for violations of the memorandum of understanding." Trump responded saying he had some of his own demands. He went on to write that Iran should pay compensation to the families of hundreds of
thousands of innocent protesters that Iran killed over the last 50 years, as well as thousands killed over the last five months. The latest back and forth reflects how quickly the negotiations can turn just a week ago Trump touted progress, and even boasted that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Franco Ordoni as NPR News.
The White House. And President Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out in separate medical visits. Large amounts of vaccine, large amounts of vaccine are currently pumped into your child's
body. The order recommends separating the measles-mumps into a Bella vaccine into three different shots, administered in separate visits. Trump has long said the number of timing of vaccines play a role in autism, scientific consensus, and decades of studies have firmly concluded there's no link.
President Trump's former personal lawyer, Todd Blanch, has been sworn in as attorney general after a confirmation fight that it exposed bipartisan concerns about the Justice Department, the Senate confirmed blanched by the narrowest of margins on Saturday, he's been leading the Justice Department in an acting capacity since Pam Bondi's firing in April. Congressional forecasters are projecting the federal deficit will top $2 trillion this year,
and PR's Scott Horsey reports there's more red ink than forecasters were predicting six months ago. With about a month and a half left to go on the fiscal year, the Congressional Budget Office predicts the annual deficit will grow to $2.1 trillion dollars. Some come and payroll tax collections are up this year, compared to last, but government
spending is grown even faster. Meanwhile corporate tax receipts are down from a year ago, and tariff revenues are well short of earlier forecast. After Supreme Court struck down many of the President's import taxes. Spending on Social Security and Medicare has grown with an aging population, interest payments
have also jumped by more than $100 billion this year, because of higher interest rates
and the ballooning federal debt. The U.S. stock market eggs down from its all-time high today, while oil prices rose on uncertainty about when the state of Hormuz could reopen again. This is NPR news from Washington. Food companies would have to notify the FDA before introducing new colors, flavorings,
and other ingredients in a proposal announced today. The change would reverse a decades-old policy allowing companies to self-certify that new ingredients are safe, health advocates blame that for allowing thousands of additives into the U.S. food supply. Poling shows most Americans believe young adults have a harder time financially than their
parents did at their age, and P.R. is a Jennifer Ludden says many parents are helping to support their adult children. When Mabel Lago and her husband retired to South Carolina this year, they made sure there was room for their 39-year-old son, who lives with them. His job paid low wages in no benefits, and Lago says rents are way too high.
The young people have really been shafted, big-time. In the pricey Seattle area, one of David Zuckerrow's 30-something daughters moved back home to cut costs, and the other wants to.
“"When I look at the salaries these kids make, I'm like, how can you not live on this?”
But they can't." The share of adults under 35 living with parents as shot up dramatically in the past two decades, and AARP finds most parents also provide financial support to grown children, needed, or not, though many say they give even when it hurts their own budget. Jennifer Ludden and P.R. News.
A diver exploring a shipwreck off the coast of Dover, in the United Kingdom, has found a 162-year-old bottle of Guinness, and the bottle date stamp from 1864 may still be drinkable. The diver says the bottle may have come from a case of 24, and there might be more cases in the area. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today, it's back at rates not seen in half a century. These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings.
“On the Sunday Story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster?”
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