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President Trump is stepping up economic pressure against Iran, threatening to quote the most
“crushing economic operation ever will be taken against Iran.”
NPR's Emily Fang reports forcing Iran to the negotiating table through economic means could backfire. Iran's economy is struggling even more. A US blockade has cut its economy off from the rest of the world. Well, there cannot get goods from outside the country for the most part, but Sena Tusey
is senior fellow at the Think Tank Center for International Policy in Washington says, "Ediological hardliners now have control of parts of Iran's government. So the economy is not their priority." Iran does want sanctions relief and adding more sanctions will increase Iran's economic troubles.
Federal agents have searched the home of former California Democratic Congressmen, Eric Swallwell,
and seized his electronic devices, the searches are part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and PR's riot-lucous reports.
“Federal agents stop Swallwell at San Francisco Airport on Saturday with the search warrant”
and seized his electronic devices. A day later, agents searched the former Congressmen's home in Washington, D.C., that's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to NPR on condition of anonymity to discuss and ongoing investigation. The probe is focused on the sexual misconduct allegations that multiple women have made against
Swallwell allegations that he denies. After those allegations came to light in April, Swallwell resigned from Congress and dropped out of the California governor's race.
His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The former Congressman is also facing investigations by state authorities in California and New York. Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington. A lawsuit filed by four states against meta is playing out in federal courts.
“The suit alleges the company knew apps like Instagram could harm young users.”
And PR's Rita Chatterjee reports, pediatricians and mental health care providers, are increasingly seeing alarming symptoms in young people. Social media addiction is not an official diagnosis recognized by the American Psychiatric Association. But pediatrician Dr. Jason Nagata says it is relatively common, I would say, for us to have
patients who are experiencing some of these symptoms of addiction. Nagata is at the University of California San Francisco. He says the symptoms of addiction include excessive use of social media, inability to cut back on social media, despite knowing that it's harmful, or having withdrawal symptoms when not using.
Recent studies that have followed thousands of children as they go through adolescence are also finding a significant number of pre-teens and teens reporting these symptoms of social media addiction, Rita Chatterjee and PR News. Concerns about social media addiction have also been growing amid adults. You're listening to NPR News.
Residents of a Rio Grande community in South Texas are suing the federal government of our border wall construction, landowners in San Ignacio say contractors entered private property without permission, Texas Public Radio's Tim Gutierrez reports. Chanting no border wall about 60 protesters marched outside the federal courthouse in Loretto.
Many came from San Ignacio where landowners are fighting border wall construction, they say, is crossing onto private land. Trisha Cortes is with the Rio Grande International Study Center. This is a very small historic community that has this unique ability to push back against the federal government.
Residents along the Rio Grande from Loretto Westward Big Bend National Park have formed the no border wall coalition to oppose new construction. The coalition says, "San Ignacio landowners have temporarily stopped work on disputed property asking a federal judge to halt construction while the case moves forward." "I'm Tim Gutierrez in San Antonio."
United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent dozens more to Honduras until now Mexicans deported from the U.S. remotely sent back to Mexico. Guatemala's president has confirmed the deportees arrived as part of a transit stopover before returning to Mexico. The costs are being covered either by the Mexican or the U.S. governments.
The U.S. aims to prevent these deportees from trying again to cross into the U.S. I'm Linda Kenyon and PR News in Washington. This week on the MPR politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking credit for a major drop in violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, all down in big cities and small towns. We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the
president claims it is on the MPR politics podcast.
