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The Trump administration says it will impose more pressure tactics on Iran's struggling
economy this week.
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to reveal details later today.”
The U.S. already has a naval blockade on the country. If you're assembly-fangre reports, analysts are skeptical that more sanctions will change Tehran's behavior. Alan Err was a longtime American diplomat and a former member of the U.S. his nuclear negotiating team until 2015.
He's very familiar with the nearly five-decade history of American sanctions on Iran. "When it comes to sanctions, we've done the low hanging fruit, the mid-hanging fruit, the hanging fruit, the tree, and also there are no new sanctions that are effective." Meaning little is left to impose new sanctions on.
Bessent and Trump have said they will target countries and governments that host entities
which help Iran evade penalties. "I'm only fang, and peer news, Washington." Immigration authorities over the weekend arrested the father of a man serving on the U.S. S.A. Abraham Lincoln.
“Empires Maria Gidoi reports that's the ship that's at a record for unto an uninterrupted”
time at sea. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Border Patrol agents arrested Luis Avelis during a vehicle stop in Kiwis, Florida. Avelis is from Nicaragua. In a post on Facebook, Avelis is Sun, Joshua Avelis, who has been on the U.S.
Abraham Lincoln for more than nine months, wrote "I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hours, knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal." The military's parole in place policy allows parents, spouses, and children of service members to obtain legal immigration status. DHS said in a statement that Luis Avelis entered the U.S.D legally in "having a family
member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation's laws." Maria Gidoi and PR News The fast-moving hawkfire near Reno, Nevada has grown to more than 15,000 acres and is 0% contained.
“Hundreds of people spent the night at an evacuation center, others slept in cars”
and RVs after being evacuated, re-apalma of member-station Kiwinar has more. The Red Cross is running the evacuation center, which has a capacity of 900 beds. About 90,000 people are in the combined evacuation and get set to evacuate areas. The Washington County School District canceled classes for all schools today, and the energy says about 10,000 customers in northern Nevada are without power.
Fire officials say several homes have been lost, but don't have an exact number. Road closures and evacuations are causing traffic delays in the area. Some residents reported being stuck in traffic for up to 4 hours as they tried to evacuate. In the Washington County Sheriff's office says the fire was human-cost for NPR News, a Mediapalma, and Reno.
This is NPR News New Zealand's government has introduced legislation to Parliament to ban children under the age of 16 from using social media. Christina Cugula reports that the government says it will bring New Zealand into line with other countries that are placing greater responsibility on tech companies to protect children
online. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke about what is at the heart of the bill. "It's not about technology, it's actually about our children." The New Zealand bill requires tech companies to take reasonable steps to verify the ages of their users and proposes fines of up to 10% of global revenues for platforms that
fail to comply.
Australia became the first country to restrict children's use of platforms like TikTok, Facebook,
and YouTube, official data showed millions of accounts were closed but with little change to children's online behavior. Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia have also introduced bands while France's top court blocked a bill finding that in infringes on freedom of expression and privacy. For NPR News, I'm Christina Cugula and Melbourne, Australia.
The final event for the country's 250th Anniversary Celebrations to play some Washington D.C. yesterday with an indie car race in the nation's capital amid historic buildings. 25 race cars went 147 times around the nearly 1.7 mile track, reaching speeds of around 180 miles and hour. There were issues, though, one car crashed into her training role, another car crashed
into that car with drivers are okay. Kyle Kirkwood from Florida to comb the top trophy. 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.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
