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The U.S. and Iran traded fire today with the U.S. striking Iranian rocket launchers
“on the Iraq island in the Strait of Hormuz.”
It's the first military action in more than a month.
Iran's revolutionary guard responded, watching an attack on U.S. bases in Jordan, according
to Iranian state media. U.S. commands as a took the action after observing the guards preparing to launch rockets with sea mines. Iranian state media says that a U.S. drone carried out the attack and the IRGC says there were deaths among its fighters.
Look, Ireland is primarily used as an Iranian military post. In a new post on a social media side, President Trump says oil from a new deal with Venezuela will be used to fill the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. But as impairs him, alyfang reports significant challenges remained for the project.
“The deal announced Friday with Venezuela would allow the U.S. government to take a stake”
in a private company that would then develop a project producing about 65 billion barrels
of oil. But much of the oil in Venezuela remains in the ground, and it will take years to develop the infrastructure to pump and refine that oil. Because of decades of under-investment and poor management, Venezuela is not a major oil producer, despite sitting on massive energy resources.
American energy companies have been reluctant to invest. The deal has announced also runs contrary to Venezuela's constitution, which bars the country's oil from being owned by other countries or sold. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Washington. The authorities in San Antonio say at least two people may have died during a severe storm that hit the area Friday night, and as Jerry Clayton of Texas Public Radio reports, the
“city's electric utility has called for reinforcements to help restore power to thousands.”
Police said on Sunday the body of a woman who drowned in a drainage ditch was found on Saturday evening, and they were investigating another apparent drowning at a city park. City Public Service, San Antonio's electric utility, has called for reinforcements and say they will nearly double their workforce to restore electricity to thousands of customers still without power. The utility says it may take several days. Over 250 power lines were
downed on Friday along with trees across the city, several building suffered damage from winds that reached over 75 miles per hour. San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones toured some of the hardest hit areas on Saturday and asked residents for patients as the cleanup efforts continue. For NPR News, I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio. San Antonio's premier Doug Ford unveiled a giant billboard saying Lake Ontario, now and
always will be Canada's. It's on the border and it's in response to President Trump's name
change of the lake to Lake America. This is trade talks between the two countries have collapsed with both sides announcing stiff new tariffs on goods from the other country. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. It's evident running is good for you, strengthens the mind and the body, but now researchers in Japan are suggesting it's even better than we thought, even at its slowest pace running
can provide a big boost to mental health as NPR's Amy Held reports. Slow and steady really may win the race. Scientists in Japan tested participants on treadmills and found you don't necessarily have to run far and fast to benefit. Just a little running, 10 minutes say, slowly, like barely above walking, lit up parts of the prefrontal cortex that's the part of the brain involved in high-level thinking, and
significantly enhanced mood. Running's rhythmic head movements are associated with the benefit scientists say something they want to research more. In Japan, a slow running movement known as Niko Niko or smiling pace is already underway. The study authors say their findings are encouraging for lots of people, those with age or joint or schedule issues. All can still have a good run. Amy Held and PR News Hurricane Karina has rapidly strengthened
to a major hurricane. The National Hurricane Center says the storm is now a category three, with maximum sustained winds of 125 miles an hour. Karina is still far from land though in the Pacific. It's about 960 miles southwest of Mexico's Baja California, Peninsula, that official say the storm could cause dangerous surf and also rip currents along parts of southwest Mexico. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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