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President Trump is dismissing Iran's demands that the U.S. paid for devastation caused
“by five months of war and exchange for reopening the street of Hormuz.”
"They asked for money for the damage that we've done. I said, that's a good idea. Well, we're going to ask for money for the damage they've done over a 50-year period." Trump said Iran should pay for hundreds of American troops killed and wounded by Iran back militants over several decades.
Iran has said the U.S. will need to provide reparations and end sanctions and military threats before the street is opened. It's been effectively blocked since the U.S. and Israel began the war in February pushing up oil prices and inflation. The State Department says it has revoked more than 175,000 visas as part of an immigration
crackdown by the Trump administration and PRS Michelle Kalman reports. In fact, she touting the new figures, the State Department says a majority of the visas were revoked due to what it calls law enforcement encounters, though it didn't say how many foreign nationals were actually convicted of such crimes, which include assault, drunk driving, child abuse, and fraud.
“The Statemen highlights the decision to revoke visas of those who the Trump administration”
believes celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirklast, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also determined some Iranians and a Cuban official accused of influence operations that can be deported. The department says it is on track to beat last year's record numbers of visa revocations. Michelle Kalman and PR News, the State Department.
The extreme heat across the U.S. this summer has broken records, since according to a new report from federal forecasters, as NPR's Lawrence Summer reports. Temperatures were hot of an average across almost the entire lower 48 states in July. On average, it was three degrees hot of a normal, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
That set a new record, making it the warmest July in the U.S. in 132 years of record keeping. Nighttime temperatures were also the warmest on record, which exacerbates the impacts of heat waves since things don't cool down as much.
“The records were most extreme in the Inter-Mountain West, Wyoming side's hottest month”
of any month recorded. That drying heat has driven up the risk of wildfires across the western U.S. Summer and PR News.
A judge has temporarily blocked New York City's new tax on luxury second homes after
a group of property owners sued last week. The order stops the city from collecting surcharges on the roughly 17,000 property owners who received notices in July, identifying them as potentially subject to the tax. New York State lawmakers created the Pied attire tax this year, in this year's state budget as a way to raise revenue for the city.
There's Iran-Mundani says he will appeal the decision, U.S. stock market aged down today from its all-time high while oil prices rose on uncertainty about whether the state of Hormuz will reopen. It's NPR. A wildfire near Reno, Nevada has burned more than 17,000 acres, about 2,600 households
are under an evacuation order. The fire's part of a wave of western wildfires threatening major cities as Caleb Radel of member station KUNR reports. The bug fire started Saturday in California and is crossed into Nevada. The official say it was human-caused.
Basil Numer Zitsky is a meteorologist with the U.S. wildland fire service. He says the fire is showing extreme behavior.
"We've seen large plumes going vertically straight up, and it's basically kind of like
the fire getting so hot that it starts creating its own weather." He says winds could gust above 30 miles an hour in western Nevada in the coming days. It could cause the bug fire and other fires in the region to spread. For NPR News, I'm Caleb Radel in Reno. New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says she is freezing her eggs
as she decides her next political moves. The 36-year-old announced her decision on social media before saying in an interview on ABC, she's not ruled out running for president, or the U.S. Senate seat held by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. The Congresswoman says she wants to feel more control over her life and normalize conversations
about what women face in their professional and personal lives. Oreo China and KFC have launched a limited edition fried chicken flavored cookie. It swaps the usual sweet cream filling for a savory blend of meant to taste like the colonel's original 11 herbs and spices, or it was previously debuted dill pickle and thanks giving themed flavors.
It's NPR. 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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