Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
President Trump says he plans to declare the straight-of-form moods the U.S. territory. The straight is bordered by Iran on the northern coast, and on the southern coast. At an event on Long Island, New York Friday,
the president did not elaborate how the U.S. would accomplish this when he made the announcement. Pretty soon, I'll be declaring the "Hormos Straight," a territory of the United States. (applause)
“Essentially, that's why we have the blockade.”
Those ships get through unless we want them to. On several occasions, since the U.S. is really war against Iran began a late February, the president has declared that the U.S.
has control of the critical, narrow, waterway,
which in estimated 20% of the world's oil and gas flow through. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli activists delivered food and water Friday to people trapped in a house besieged by Israeli settlers. NPR's Frank Lankford reports the man who lives there says he cannot leave.
"Officacy, if a member of the Israeli parliament was among those delivering the provisions, he said Israeli soldiers controlled the area when the settlers had retreated for now to a hilltop. "I'm quite afraid that that's not the end of the story
to say the leak." Kusei Abu Ridee is the Palestinian-American occupant of the home. He told NPR the Israeli military to clear the area a closed military zone and won't let him leave. Abu Ridee says the soldiers could arrest the settlers at any time.
Instead, he says the military pushes the mound only to watch them return.
“He called this a quote, "theatrical performance."”
The Israeli military has not responded to NPR's request for comment. Frank Lankford and pure news, Tel Aviv. In Nevada, a judge has thrown out a case against six so-called fake electors from the 2020 presidential election.
NPR's Hansi Lowong reports. The Nevada judge ruled the state attorney general's office did not present enough evidence that six Nevadans, including the chair of the state's Republican Party, intended to deceive government officials
when they offered them a certificate that claimed President Trump had won Nevada's electoral votes in 2020. The judge sided with the six Nevada Republicans' argument that they were trying to preserve their rights
to challenge official election results. The Office of Nevada's Democratic State Attorney General plans to appeal this latest failed attempt to prosecute electors in swing states who tried to reverse Trump's loss to former presidential Biden six years ago.
Similar cases in Arizona, Michigan and Georgia have also been dismissed.
“Last year, Trump pardoned these Republican electors”
for federal crimes related to their 2020 scheme, but they are still liable for any state crimes. On Zilawang and Fier News. A Kentucky woman Friday made a brief appearance in federal court in Washington, D.C.
after felony charges were filed against Melissa Ferris. She is charged by the U.S. attorney for Washington with allegedly vandalizing the World More Two Memorial on the National Mall. This is NPR.
Five years ago, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan vanquishing the Western back Afghan forces as U.S. forces withdrew nearly two decades after it first invaded. NPR's Dia Hadid reports.
The Taliban's unexpectedly swift seizure of Afghanistan hastened the U.S. withdrawal, leading to thousands of Afghans trying to flee. Afghanistan is now far more peaceful, but desperately poor.
Some half of the population of 40 million people need aid,
millions are hungry, but the U.S. and much of the worse have dramatically reduced aid, and hundreds of Hell clinics have shudded this year, meaning women and babies are now more likely to die. The Taliban have imposed increasingly hardline rules.
Most girls cannot attend school after grade six, cannot work in most professions and have little right to leave a violent spouse. Adding to the crisis, Iran and Pakistan have expelled some six million Afghans
overwhelming services in an already devastated country. Dia Hadid NPR news. Weather forecasters in Hawaii are keeping a very close watch on tropical storm Lala, which is expected to gain strength as it moves
westerly and approaches the big island of Hawaii. The National Weather Service says it's possible the storm
went into approaches the island Saturday could be the first
hurricane since modern records were kept beginning in 1949 to strike the island. Forecasters say part of the state could get between eight and 12 inches of rain. Some areas could get two feet of rain.
Swells could also cause life, threatening, surf, and rip currents. This is NPR news. Support for NPR. Democrats are fighting for the future of their party.
This week on the NPR politics podcast, we break down where the lines are being drawn between centrists and progressives. Both sides have scored victories this primary season and both are certain that they will be more
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