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over conditions aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln deployed to the Middle
East as part of the Iran War.
“They include Massachusetts Congressman Seth Molten, a member of the House Armed Services”
Committee who served as a captain at the U.S. Marine Corps. This is horrific that these brave young Americans signed up to serve our country. Not be pawns for Pete Higgs-Seth in a disastrous war that you can't figure away out of. The Lincoln has been in the Middle East since January and has been at sea for more than
260 days. Reports of food shortages for a surface to an April since then reports of mental health issues among sailors have emerged. Defense Secretary Pete Higgs-Seth said Thursday those concerns are completely misrepresentate. The U.S.S. George Washington is now on its way to replace the Lincoln, although it's unclear
when the swap will take place. Israeli settlers continue to threaten several Palestinian homes on a rocky hilltop in the West Bank. MPR's Frank Lankford reports at one house is owned by a Palestinian-American who lives in Ohio. Lui Ridi lives in Toledo, where he watched the settler attacks in real-time on his house
of security cameras in the West Bank.
“Ridi says on Sunday, settler surrounded his home where his brother Kusai lives, they”
got a food supplies as well as water and electricity, Ridi says the Israeli military isn't doing enough. They're not a Russ in the settler, actually they came on Sunday so they celebrated with the settler. We captured this on video, they walked into the tent and they started chilling and hanging
out with the settler, and then they conducted a prayer with the settlers. The Israeli military told local media it was dismantling to settler outposts and was sending a battalion to the area. U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huggabik called the settler's terrorists, Frank Lankford and Pure News.
Tel Aviv. And White House says more than 40 countries have been helping importers evade tariffs. The administration now vowing to crack down on mostly Chinese mate goods, as it says, are being falsely labeled as coming from another country, here's MPR assembly, bang reporting. White House trade advised repeater Navarra says the potential trade fraud could amount to
“between forty to seventy five billion dollars a year in lost customs revenue, transcript, mostly”
from China through other countries to the U.S. For example, the Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, it goes there because it's nearby. Transshipment has long been an issue, but the U.S. has not boosted tariff enforcement funding substantially.
The Department of Justice has a trade fraud division, but it has been understaffed for years. Some customs and border protection, which does most of the initial screening, when a shipment enters the U.S. has been racing to hire and train imports specialists. Emily Fang and Pure News, Washington. You're listening to NPR news.
An oil spill off the coast of Oman has reached the mainland and the country's environmental authorities says it's endangering Oman's marine protected areas. Empires had to allow sheltered reports. Prood oil has been leaking from what is believed to be a Russian tanker with a capacity
to carry nearly one million barrels of oil, and which reported an explosion in early
June. The cause of the explosion is still unknown and no group has claimed responsibility. Oman's environmental authorities said the slick covers almost 400 square kilometers, and that it was quickly moving north east towards Iran. The environmental authorities said it was monitoring and responding to the situation to
limit the spread and reduce its environmental impacts. It called "unfishermen" and others to keep away from the coast. Oman has been one of the mediators in the U.S. war with Iran. Hedil al-Shalci and PR News, Vaughn, turned off. The oil prices are fairly steady.
Brent Crew, the international standard, is up 7 cents in Asia trading at around $87 per barrel. After the U.S. warned that it could maintain a naval blockade of Iran indefinitely amidst all talks. Nigel Farage, returning to the British House of Commons regaining the parliament seat, he quit
last month leading to Thursday's special election. For Ogy's a leader of reform U.K., he stepped down aiming for a new voter mandate.
After weeks of questions about a 5 million pound gift from an overseas crypto billionaire
that he failed to report. The major political party's boycott of the election, but it attracted a record 34 candidates including Count Benface, a comic candidate who came in second. I'm trial Snyder. This is NPR News.
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