"Line from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett is expected to announce new aggressive sanctions
“on Iran Monday, which President Trump is called "Economic D-Day," or Ron says any nation”
that participates in these efforts will be considered an enemy and targeted. NPR's Hadil Ashashi reports "President Trump has warned that the U.S. will wage new economic warfare against Iran this week. Iran has spent almost half a century weathering the weight of U.S. sanctions with ordinary Iranians bearing the brunt of the consequences. Trump didn't outline details of the new punishment, but said that they would be "unprecedented"
and aimed at forcing Iran to open the state of Hormuz. In an interview on state TV, Iran's new security chief said that Iran would quote "harm the interests of surrounding countries if they joined Trump's new economic war. Iran has been targeting U.S. military installations in the Gulf and Jordan since the beginning of the war."
Hadil Ashashi NPR news, Istanbul. "Economists say President Trump's tariffs on Canada will meet higher prices for U.S. consumers
“at the same time polls show more voters say cost of living is a top issue.”
NPR's Mara Lyashin reports President Trump is ramping his efforts to support Republican candidates in the midterms." Trump has concerned that Republican voters will not turn out in November if he's not on the ballot. Here he is at a rally for Republican Senator Darlin Graham in South Carolina.
"What I really want you to do is pretend please, that I'm on the ballot, just come and vote it's so awkward." That argument may encourage Trump's supporters to turn out even if he's not on the ballot, but if Republicans do poorly in November, it will also allow him to argue that it wasn't a reputation of him since he wasn't on the ballot.
Mara Lyashin and PR news.
Hawaii is now facing down its second powerful storm at a week, as Hawaii Public Radio's
“Bill Dorman reports the focus now is more on the rain than it has been on the wind.”
Rainfall from Tropical Storm Mokiz started to come ashore on Hawaii Island in the early hours of Sunday. A flood watch is in effect from much of the big island through at least Monday afternoon. Mokiz's path is keeping the center of the storm about 300 miles south of the island chain. That's quite different from Hurricane Lola's path last week.
The main concern now is the impact of additional rain on areas that were hit hard by Lola, and those are largely in the east and southeast parts of the big island, along with the east coast of Maui. Hawaii Governor Josh Green is already asked for federal disaster assistance, and he says
initial damages from Lola include at least $43 million in infrastructure on Hawaii
Island, and nearly $5 million in damages to homes there for NPR news. I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. Some parts of the state could get a foot of rain, you're listening to NPR news. Florida's Kyle Kirkwood won the checkered flag in Washington DC today at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix race on the 1.7 mile road course through the streets of downtown Washington
DC, racing its breeds approaching 200 miles per hour of the cars, race down Pennsylvania Avenue near the U.S. Capitol, and then went by the White House, President Trump, President Trump, joined forces with DC's mayor Mirrio Bowser to bring the race to Washington and transportation secretary Sean Duffy, wave the checkered flag to end the 147 lap race, attended by thousands of spectators who line the streets to watch.
Europe is heating faster than anywhere on earth. It is feeding wildfires this summer, including in former World War II battlegrounds in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. As Wilhelm Marks reports, it's on earthing, up potentially deadly threat. Occasionally in towns and cities that once faced heavy bombardments during World War II, construction
teams on earth, decades-old ordinances that require bomb disposal specialists to close off entire neighborhoods to safely remove them. But in recent months, with sustained high temperatures and raging fires across the landscapes of Western Europe, rusty bombs and mines that date from the 1910s through the Cold War, now further threaten the lives of firefighters as they work to beat back the flames.
As the fires clear out scrubbing brush that long-help burial, munitions the bombs sometimes ignite. Blast of so far been reported from southwest France and all these Germany, no one has been injured. The NPR News on Wilhelm Marks, and this is NPR News, support for NPR.
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.
