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The Trump administration is calling this "D-Day" for the Iranian economy, and warning
“countries they could face U.S. sanctions if they continue to do business with Iran.”
But as NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, the U.S. is giving Iran's trading partners some time. Unlike the "D-Day" landing in France during World War II, the U.S. is giving countries some time to choose between doing business with Iran or with the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson put it this way, after laying out the financial sanctions that could come.
"We are giving everyone the opportunity, the to remedy bad behavior. Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?" Besson would not spell out the timeline of when Iran's biggest traders, including China, could face secondary sanctions.
The Treasury Secretary says countries know the consequences of continuing to do business
with Iran. Michelle Kellerman and P.R. News, Washington. The Department of Homeland Security conducted wide-reaching surveillance on minisotans during the "I" Surge earlier this year.
“That is according to government documents recently made public.”
NPR's Meg Anderson spoke with some of the people surveilled to see how they're feeling. For months around the Twin Cities, undercover agents attended meetings at churches, libraries, and schools, and gathered information on people who have not been accused of crimes. Last February, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minnesota, and under-covered DHS agent attended a meeting vice-protesters and compiled dossiers on the people there.
Steve Solester is the pastor. "It feels like I'm living in 1950s Eastern Europe. It just feels completely out of place and inappropriate." The Church is far from the only place affected. Legal experts say these tactics by DHS raise serious privacy concerns.
In a statement, DHS told NPR it does not comment on the existence or status of ongoing investigations. Meg Anderson and Perenuse. Nearly two weeks after parts of the Midwest were ravaged by a series of severe thunderstorms
“a powerful derecho, thousands of people in northwest Indiana are still without electricity.”
However, the utility company Nepska says it expects all power to be restored by tomorrow. The mayor of Gary, Indiana, Eddie Melton describes the aftermath of this windstorm as unlike any other many of his constituents have experienced. "It's been extremely difficult, very frustrating to be without power for so many days, folks with medical conditions, individuals, and children not in school, so it's something
we're going to be recovering for quite some time, even when the power comes back on." The destructive winds and floods wreaked havoc far beyond Gary. About 250 miles away, the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Gimther, said storms in and day to the city with more than three inches of rain in just 12 hours. This is NPR News.
A U.S. Navy sailor says that while he was deployed in the Middle East, he found out federal immigration agents had arrested his father. The Department of Homeland Security confirms Luis Aveles, who is from Nicaragua, was detained during a traffic stop in Florida. Joshua Aveles posted about his father on Facebook.
He says he has spent the last nine-plus months on the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier that became the subject of reports about deteriorated conditions for the 5,000 member crew. The Lincoln is now headed back to the U.S. after it was relief by the USS George Washington. molecules have long been made by using lots of energy to force atoms together or break
them apart. But a material scientist at Sanford is using light to run chemical reactions with a fraction of the energy. His NPR is aridennial. "Gen Dion uses light as a kind of chemical scalpel."
"A tool that allows you to very precisely control what atoms and molecules are doing. To create exactly the product you want and very little of the products you don't want. "Dion and our team illuminate nanoparticles with laser light, which pushes electrons around in just the right way to make or break bonds, precisely forging the desired molecule, without the heat and pressure that requires so much energy.
The technique can be used to make fertilizer and convert greenhouse gases into fuels, processes that dion believes can be scaled up within a few years. Our edannual NPR news." The dials closed up 140 points, this is NPR News. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed.
Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fish.
"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.
