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The House of Representatives is back in session after a five-week recess.
“At the top of their agenda is passing a resolution to avoid a government shutdown, and”
PR congressional reporter Eric McDaniel says there's not much time left before midterm voting starts. "They're in a tough spot across the board. Americans are and have been upset about the cost of living, making it hard for Republicans to doubt their legislative wins from last year, including changing rules for taxes on tips
and creating tax-advanced investment accounts for kids. Not something that directly, you know, addresses the ways people are feeling pinched. The GOP has largely focused on the attack, characterizing their democratic opponents as communists, and they really only have a tiny slice of seats to spare in order to hold on to their majority."
He says the deadline for government funding to lapse is the end of September, and the funding vote this week would be a stop-gap until December. The United Arab Emirates says its forces intercepted an Iranian drone today over its territorial waters.
“That attack came ours after the U.S. military struck Iranian rocket launchers in the”
state of Hormuz. And PR's Hadil Al-Shalci is in Istanbul with the latest. U.S. central command said its struck Iranian launchers after it "observed Iranian forces preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the state of Hormuz. According to Senkhan, the U.S. military cleared sea mines from the state's international
shipping routes last week.
Iran's revolutionary guards said there were fatalities among their forces.
Iran said it retaliated by firing ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Jordan, and the Jordanian armed forces said they intercepted eight missiles that entered its airspace. This marks the first time the two countries exchanged fire in nearly a month. Hadil Al-Shalci and PR news, Istanbul. The number of people missing from last week's tsunami of mud, rock, and ice at the border
of Nepal and Tibet has now jumped to more than 4,200. And Paris Winser Johnson reports the Trump administration says at least 85 Americans remain unaccounted for. The state department says its embassies in Katmandu and Bay Jing are working with local officials as search and rescue operations continue.
The U.S. also has a disaster response advisor on the ground, helping determine what kind of assistance is needed. Spokesperson Tommy Pigud tells ABCs this week that millions of dollars in emergency aid have already been approved. We have activated from the state department $3.6 million in emergency humanitarian assistance.
That includes up to three months of emergency food for up to 10,000 flood affected households. Many will also help restore damaged roads and provide specialized transportation to remote communities. Winser Johnson and PR news, Washington. And you're listening to NPR from New York City.
Google has now updated the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America to comply with President Trump's new executive order signed last week when failed trade talks triggered high tariffs against Canadian products and retaliatory tariffs from the U.S. Canadians will see both names on their maps.
On Saturday, Canada put up a giant new lakeside sign that reads Lake Ontario now and always
in English and French. Ontario premier Doug Ford at its unveiling said President Trump can call it whatever he wants, but I can tell you the rest of the world will always call it Lake Ontario. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey to our parking orbit about a million miles from Earth.
“As Jopalka reports, it's begun to check out its key systems after a successful launch from”
the County Space Center in Florida, Sunday morning. The Roman Telescope is huge about the size of a school bus. Its design lets its sea large swaths of the sky at a time. It's expected to find new planets orbiting distant stars, discover new galaxies, and contribute to astronomers' understanding of a mysterious force called dark energy.
At a news conference after the launch, Roman Telescope Project Manager Jackie Townsend sounded delighted by how well things went. The ride was magnificent, put us right where we wanted to be, all of the deployments went great. The next 90 days will be spent making sure all the spacecraft systems are working properly
and calibrating telescope instruments. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palca. And I'm Duahli, Psych Hotel, and PR News from New York City. Country singer and rapper Shibuzzi wants us to remember our history accurately. Calboy image, you know, we tend to think that was just a white man, you know, on a horse
with a cowboy hat, but you know, one in every four cowboys were black.
On the Sunday story from up first, Shibuzzi talks about his latest album and the black
roots of country music. Listen to the Sunday story in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast.
