Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lynda Kenyan.
The Trump administration is launching a campaign to pressure countries to cut economic ties to Iran. As NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, the Treasury Department calls it Operation Economic Outcast, and it warns countries that they have to make a choice between the U.S. or Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions if
“they're helping Iran make money from oil or other key sectors, but he wouldn't spell”
out what countries could face secondary sanctions or when they might be punished. "We know who they are. They know who they are. So when the hammer of U.S. Treasury Actions falls upon them, they will have no one to blame but themselves." Asked why the U.S. is giving countries like China and other Iranian trading partners more time to respond to the threat of sanctions, Bessant said, quote, "Why would I want to blow
up the global financial system? Michelle Kellerman and PR News Washington." President Trump's super PAC is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the final hours before polls close in South Carolina to support Darling Graham for Senate. As NPR's Tamaraki reports, the President and Doris Graham, the sister of the late Senator
Lindsey Graham. "Magga Inc. is sitting on more than $400 million in campaign cash,
but hasn't been spending it. Now, the super PAC is injecting $827,000 in last-minute assistance to Darling Graham for get out the vote phone calls and text messages." Trump also held a rally for Graham last Friday, begging South Carolinians to get out and vote for her in what is expected to be a low-turned-out-special primary runoff against Republican Congressman Ralph Norman. "What I really want you to do is pretend please that I'm on the
“ballad just come and vote it's so important." The power of Trump's endorsement is also on the line,”
Tamaraki and PR News. " Nearly all of the Southern and Southwestern United States is under a federal drought disaster declaration, and a pope of member-station KOSU reports, Oklahoma farmers and ranchers, are having to make some tough choices." "Hot and corn and soybeans are bearing the brunt of extreme weather, Kelsey Bates, who farms with her husband and Northwest Oklahoma, says crops are stressed,
and they lost a 400-pound steered due to heat. Because pastors lack water to grow grass for cattle, she says ranchers are rolling out hay ahead of schedule, adding to high-end put costs." "So we're going to be short on hay going into winter. Add on top of that, we're already starting to feed hay. When usually we don't have to start feeding hay until October in November." "The extreme weather has an immediate effect on farmers and ranchers, but she says it will
“trickle down through the supply chain to consumers. For NPR News, I'm Anna Pope in Oklahoma City."”
"You're listening to NPR." Former Cleveland Brown's Titan Dequan right could be the first player to go from the NFL team back to college football, after committing to LSU. Mel Bridges, with Member Station WWNO has more. "Right played for Ole Miss, where now LSU had coach-link
Kiffin coached from 2025 and signed with the Cleveland Browns this year. He never played a game,
though he did suit up for Saturday's preseason game. Now he's headed back to college. "Right is among a group of players who won a preliminary injunction saying a new NCAA ruling grinting a fifth year of eligibility should apply to those who graduated high school in 2022. At a press conference, Kiffin said there will be more players who come back." "Because of these rulings, they're either going to play for you or they're going to play some
girls around the country. So we've made a decision to recruit them, like probably most people are." "He says LSU is just getting ahead of the curve. For NPR news, I'm Mel Bridges in New Orleans." President Trump plans to visit Ireland next month to attend the Irish Open Golf Tournament at his golf course in County Claire on the country's Atlantic Coast. The tournament will take place at Trump International Golf Lanks Ireland in Doomburg. Trump also will mix in some presidential
activities. He'll be attending an event with U.S. embassy workers as well as some business officials. The trip is scheduled to take place next month and starting on September 12th through September 13th. I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in Washington. "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 of the White House than Donald Trump." This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the U.S. podcast on the NPR app.
