Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
The Trump administration announced a new round of sanctions aimed at Iran today, calling
“on countries to sever financial ties or face retaliation from the U.S., and P.R.'s Michelle”
Kalman has more on Iran's response. The Iranians remain defiant, even though some Iranian leaders have admitted it's likely to inflict a lot more pain on the economy, which is suffering huge losses right now. Even before Bessan's news conference, Iran's new security chief was warning that any country that helps the U.S. with these economic restrictions would be considered an enemy,
any warn that Iran would target their interests. He said that Iran would attack oil tankers, trying to leave the Persian Gulf, again, saying quote that not a single drop of oil will leave the region. So Iran seems to be ready to use this new leverage that it has over the straight of our moves, and we'll continue to fight back.
And P.R.'s Michelle Kalman reporting, South Carolina Republicans will choose a Senate nominee tomorrow, President Trump's super PAC is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the last minute get out the vote push for the late Senator Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham, who's serving out the rest of his term. South Carolina Public Radio's Luis Alfredo Garcia reports the race as a test of Trump's
endorsement power. GOP voters already narrowed their options to Senator Darlene Graham and Congressman Ralph Norman. Both have been trying to sway people who voted for other candidates in the initial special primary election.
65-year-olds him Riley attended President Trump's rally for Graham in Murdoch, on Friday. He says he's a fan of the president, but didn't rely on endorsements when making a decision. "She's new blood into the political arena.
“It was important to find out what she's about before we cast our votes."”
He says he will vote for Graham, but he says that's because of her stance against abortion rights and a lack of background in politics, something she's also been criticized for. For NPR News, I'm Luis Alfredo Garcia, in Columbia, South Carolina. California's highest court is weighing whether a sheriff broke the law when he seized hundreds of thousands of ballots earlier this year, Madison Oment of Member Station KVCR reports.
Sheriff Chad Bianco, a reverse-eyed county, took the ballots after last year's statewide election on redistricting to favorite Democrats. Bianco, a Republican who was then running for governor, says he was investigating voter fraud. His attorney says Bianco had a warrant enacted within the law, but Sunny Walknan and attorney for the plaintiffs says a warrant doesn't trump California election code.
"We argued today before the court that no one, not even an elected sheriff, has a power to ignore election rules and sees cast ballots outside the view of the public." The court also heard a case about whether California's attorney general has the authority to tell Bianco to stop his investigation.
“The court has 90 days to issue its decisions.”
For NPR News, I'm Madison Oment in San Bernardino. The Dow rose a quarter of a percent today, and this is NPR News from Washington. An arbitrator has ordered the Washington Post to reinstate an impinion writer fired over social media posts about violent white men following last year's killing of conservative activists Charlie Kirk.
The ruling says the newspaper did not have sufficient cause to terminate, to terminate Karen attaia and calls for her to be awarded full back pay and lost benefits. Former Cleveland Browns Titan, Dequan Wright, could be the first player to go from an NFL team back to college football after committing to LSU, Mel Bridges with Member Station WWNO has more.
Wright played for Ole Miss, where now LSU had coach-linked Kiffin coached from 2020 to 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. Wright is among a group of players who won a preliminary injunctions saying a new NCWA ruling granting 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 roles 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.
China is postponing its ambitious lunar mission. It was set to search for frozen water on the moon. The spacecraft was scheduled to lift off in the coming days. The China manned space agency says the mission does not meet the launch conditions and cannot take place during the planned window this year.
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 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.
