"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
President Trump is changing his approach to Iran and an effort to get that country to
“agree to his terms for a peace deal, and PR's marvelous and reports."”
Months of bombing haven't worked to subdue Iran, and with no obvious face-saving off-ramp, the president is now turning to economic pressure. Trump is threatening a "economic day," saying there will be a crushing operation of sanctions to cripple Iran financially. It's unclear if he will back off that threat, as he has with other threats.
Trump is also threatening economic action against any country giving Iran a "lifeline." That would describe China, Iran's biggest oil customer. But in the past, Trump has been reluctant to press China with tough sanctions. Maralaya and NPR News Ukraine continues its drone attacks on Russian infrastructure this time, destroying a big online
retailer's warehouse in southwestern Russia. The strike came despite the Kremlin's threat of escalated responses, and PR's Charles Maine's reports from Moscow. "In an interview with state media, Putin said in attacking Russian energy in commercial infrastructure, Ukraine had opened "pendor's box."
The Kremlin leaders said Ukrainians could expect Russia to now attack, but he called their most sensitive economic sectors.
“Putin said that included "grain shipments," Ukraine's key export.”
Matter of ports like Odessa on the Black Sea, Putin also rejected claims by critics that Russian targeting of Ukrainian grain stores at harvest time risked a global food shortage this winter. Russia, Putin said, could make up the difference with its own agricultural exports. That despite Ukraine's own recent targeting of Russian sea freight shipments out of the
region. "Trollsmanes and PR News." Moscow The national mall in Washington, D.C. looks a lot different this weekend, as part of the nation's 250th birthday celebrations in D.C. are holding a race there.
More from NPR's Adam Beer." Instead of parked tour buses and ice cream trucks, the road to run the mall are lined with concrete barriers and catch fences. They mark out the circuit for the freedom to 50 grand prix.
“The racist chairman, Bud Denker, says the city makes for a dramatic backdrop.”
"You have the view of the nation's capital cars going by on 3rd street. The view of the Washington monument for cars going by on 7th street is just epic." Also epic will be the speed. The cars are expected to hit about 180 miles an hour. It's in D.C., first race in D.C., German tourist, Chris Herald has his ticket.
"That's really maybe once in a lifetime who knows, but the first race, it's amazing
to the anniversary also." Around 120,000 fans are expected to be there, Adam Beer and NPR News, Washington. While fire burning in northwest Reno has grown to an estimated 10,500 acres according to fire officials with nearly 14,000 homes threatened evacuation orders and warnings are in effect.
This is NPR. The rate of adults dying from alcohol use in the U.S. has gone up in the past decade, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics and PR's ping-wong reports. For adults 45 and older, the rate of alcohol induced deaths has increased by about 30% since 2014.
It's up for both men and women, though deaths from alcohol are around 2.5 times higher in men. The rate is down from a peak in 2021, during the COVID pandemic, but remains higher than it was pre-pendemic. The data is published in the CDC's morbidity and mortality weekly report.
Past CDC publications found some 2/3 of alcohol-related deaths come from the impacts of drinking over time, such as alcohol use disorder, heart, and liver diseases. The remaining third died after drinking too much at once, which can cause things like alcohol poisoning. The agency recommends that those who drink drink moderately and help others do the same,
and that they seek help for substance abuse if they're concerned. Ping-wong and PR News A moderate earthquake struck four professors in Japan today, including Tokyo, the preliminary magnitude 5.9 quid caused a couple of dozen injuries, but mostly not serious, say officials.
In Europe, a powerful cyclone has hit Latvia and Lithuania, two people were killed more
than a half million lost power, wind speed exceeded 67 miles an hour in the capital, and some places, half of the average monthly rainfall was recorded in one day. One local forecaster says, "This was the most powerful storm there in more than two decades." I'm Louise Skivone and VR News, Washington. One A is named for the first amendment, which protects the freedom of the press and your
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