"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Amy Held.
A public dispute between allies, the U.S. and Israel is playing out.
“President Trump's envoy to Syria says Israel did not warn the U.S. about a strike”
on Syria. And here's Daniel Estrin has more from Tel Aviv." Israel bombed an air base in northern Syria near the Turkish border last week. Israel said it did so because Turkish troops were going to deploy at that Syrian air base and threaten Israel's security.
Israel said it had warned Syria and shared its intelligence with the U.S. Tom Barrack, who is the U.S. special envoy to Syria and Ambassador to Turkey, called Israel's strike in unnecessary escalation. He said Israel didn't warn the U.S. about the strike in a video posted on X. "And what they didn't do is tell us," or "telt Turkey."
Barrack suggested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might have tried to provoke Turkey in a way that would help him win Israeli elections in October. Daniel Estrin and PR news, Tel Aviv. There can be gridlock at the nation's capital but today downtown DC turned into a speedway for the freedom to 50 grand prix.
25 race cars zipping around the national mall and President Trump went around Congress establishing the event by executive order, part of his summer celebrations of the nation's 250th. Indiana officials are requesting major disaster relief 12 days after deadly storms hit, causing widespread damage flooding and some 21,000 customers still without power. U.S. Senator Todd Young of Indiana spoke to Fox News.
"We need power restoration. We need resources and boots on the ground to help with that." The President said, "We're going to declare an emergency immediately. He made that happen.
I'd never seen a response so quick.
And then in Central Indiana and various other parts of the state, we've had a lot of flooding. So we too need more resources." Schools are still closed in Gary, utility company estimates say power will return there by Tuesday. With bond markets in turmoil, investors are awaiting a speech this week by Fed Chair Kevin
Worsh. As NPR's Raphael Nom reports, he is said to speak at the annual Fed policy meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "It's a highly anticipated speech. Investors are hoping.
Worsh and Friday will address the fears about inflation that are hitting the bond markets. One investor's fear inflation, because they can have real negative effects in the economy. Worsh has previously said, fighting inflation will be a top priority." But investors reacted poorly when the Fed held interest rates at his last policy meeting in July.
Even as inflation remains high, racing doubts among some investors about how the Fed plans to tackle inflation.
“Making this all the more interesting, the U.S. will report a key inflation gauge, called”
"the personal consumption expenditure's price index on Wednesday. Two days before Worsh is said to take the stage," Raphael Nom, NPR News. This is NPR News. In the Reno, Nevada area, a fire has grown to more than 10,000 acres and is quickly approaching the city center.
The Washington County Sheriff says it was human-caused and is zero percent contained. Even 90,000 people are under evacuation orders or can expect to flee. It's back to school season, and in some communities schools are asking not only for notebooks and pencils, but also asking parents whether they consent to their child being paddled. NPR's Kate and Mills reports 30 states, plus Washington DC, explicitly banned the practice.
But 15 states still allow it. There's a broad consensus among psychologists, like Joan Durant, that corporal punishment can be harmful to children. There are hundreds and hundreds of studies on corporal punishment. The study showed the same thing.
It's only a risk factor. She said corporal punishment is a predictor for future aggressive behavior, including intimate partner violence. But advocates for corporal punishment say, "It can be a powerful tool."
“The fact that we can, paddle, I think, is a great deterrent.”
David Vincent is the superintendent of an Oklahoma district that allows physical punishment. He says paddleings are rare, but he doesn't want the option taken away. Kate and Mills and PR news. The anticipated launch of China's robotic moon mission expected in the coming days has been postponed until some time after this year.
State media did not give a precise reason why only saying the probe designed to scour the moon's south pole for water ice, did not meet launch conditions. I'm Amy Held and you're listening to NPR News. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
