"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Lynda Kenyan.
The president of Iran says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the U.S.
“makes good on its commitments to negotiate and end to the war.”
The Iranian leader says his country and Oman have reached a tentative agreement to manage traffic through the Strait once of reopens, and PR's carry-con reports. "President Masood Pazeskin made his comments on state TV, he says Iran and Oman have an agreed-upon route for all-shipping traffic. With vessels entering the Strait through Iranian waters, they would exit through Omani
waters. However, the president says Iran is not prepared to lift its blockade until the U.S. drop sanctions, releases Iranian funds, and brings an end to Israel's war in Lebanon. All commitments," he says the U.S. had originally agreed to. No direct talks between the U.S. and Iran are taking place.
The president also says Iran's economy has been "head-hard" by the war, with foreign trade dropping by more than a third, carry-con and PR news to live. It was an interesting week on Wall Street, stocks dipped on Friday, but all of the major
“market index still ended up for the week.”
And PR's got horse they has a story. "A report from the Commerce Department this week showed consumer prices are still climbing faster than most people would like.
prices were up 3.7 percent for the 12th months ending in July.
The Commerce Department's inflation yardstick is the one most closely watched by the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Kevin Morris told a gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, that curbing inflation should be the central banks' main focus for now. He says the job market appears stable, and consumer spending is still resilient.
Worst did not offer a forecast of where he thinks interest rates are headed, but odds of a September-rate increase rose after his speech for the week, the Dow and the S&P 500 next both rose half a percent while the tech heavy NASDAQ jumped to 8/10 percent. Scott Horsley, in PR News, Washington.
“"Health Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. traveled to Florida this week for events about regenerative”
farming, childhood fitness, and school nutrition. But it was measles that kept coming up instead, following two measles related deaths in Pennsylvania, and PR's Selena Simmons' Duffin reports."
The deaths were announced by Governor Josh Shapiro and they were build as the first measles
deaths in 2026, and the first in Pennsylvania in 35 years. And that announcement turned into a very public conflict. Secretary Kennedy used his personal ex-account to accuse the governor of gaslighting. He also suggested the measles vaccine has fetal tissue in it. He did not offer condolences to the families for the lives lost that I've seen, and he
did not urge people who were not vaccinated for measles and live in an area with an outbreak to get the vaccine." Working with reporters in Tampa's Secretary Kennedy also questioned whether those measles deaths in Pennsylvania were actually real. "You're listening to NPR."
History has been made at the Little League World Series in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, and PR's John Stoleness reports girls are making their mark. For the first time, a girl took the field in the U.S. championship game. Carson Meyer is the first girl to play in the American finals, with her team from Henderson Nevada facing the squad from Hamilton, Ohio.
Nick named Carcar by her teammates, Meyer plays outfield and catcher and is a big fan of the Kansas City Royals. The other girl in this year's tournament, Kinley Rasmus, saw her team from Alabama eliminated this week, but she emerged as a star, tying the record for female players with 14 strike out as a pitcher, and setting the record for most hits by a girl with five.
Twenty-six girls have played in the annual tournament for 12-year-old Little Leagueers since Victoria Roach of Belgium became the first in 1984. John Stoleness and PR News "Streams of Dalai Pardon's music of Skyrocketed since the country music led in died on Tuesday. Industry data and analytics company Luminate reports audio and video streams of Pardon's music
jumped more than 2,000 percent on the day of her death, climbing from 1.2 million to 30.5 million
in the US by Wednesday that number rose to 46.3 million domestically. Globally, Dalai Pardon's on-demand audio streams jumped to 79.7 million, making her the most streamed artist globally on that date. Dalai Pardon died last week at the age of 80. I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in Washington."
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