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U.S. Metro Command says U.S. forces are carrying out new strikes on Iranian military targets.
“In a statement this past hour, U.S. and Kompos on X, the strikes follow Iran's recent”
attempts to attack commercial shipping in the state of Hormuz and U.S. service members deployed to the region. The White House is offering details on a Venezuelan company that will be working with the United States to develop that country's oil reserves. Here's NPR's Julia Simon.
The company is called North American Blue Energy Partners. Behind the company is 46-year-old Alejandro Betinkort, who is faced multiple investigations in Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S. for money laundering. He has not been formally charged. While Betinkort's company has experienced in some types of oil fields, oil experts tell
NPR its unclear if it has the experience to develop the complicated geological formations under discussion in the Trump deal. That means the company may need more know-how and investment to develop the fields, but as some energy analysts tell NPR, many oil companies may not want to work with Betinkort's company given the reputational risk, Julia Simon and Pernus.
“More than 1,000 people are now confirmed dead from last week's catastrophic floods in the”
Nepal China border region. Thousands of people remain unaccounted for as many as 4,400 missing according to local authorities. NPR's Jennifer Pack reports rescuers are racing to get to people in the hopes of finding survivors. Rescue crews in Tibet bowed their heads as horns blared to more in the victims of the deadly
floods than they returned to their difficult work. It's been days since Chinese authorities announced any survivors, but there has been some progress. NPR's have been working overnight to clear a path to the worst hit area, the Jilong Raswav border checkpoint.
And the path is about to open soon, according to State Ren Tibet Daily. A lake formed from debris fleshed down from a glacier collapse has been draining naturally since Chinese authorities. Local officials had raised concerns that debris dams could burst sending more water into the flood zone.
“The risk of landslides and secondary floods remains.”
Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing. The jury in Lindsey Clancy's murder trial says after many hours of deliberating it is still unable to reach a unanimous decision. On whether to hold a Massachusetts mother criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023.
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan asked the nine women in three men of the jury to keep deliberating. Clancy does not dispute that she strangled her children to death, but she pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder on the grounds that she suffered from postpartum psychosis.
The prosecution argues that Clancy's behavior shows she knew what she was doing when she took her children's lives. From Washington, this is NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue building its
$400 million white house ballroom complex for now.
President initially promoted the project as a necessary upgrade from major international gatherings. He has since defended the project as a matter of national security in light of a world war II era bunker under the side. While the court sided with Trump on procedural grounds, a constitutional question of executive
authority remains. Georgetown law professor Stephen Lattick says Trump has repeatedly tried to spend money to Congress has not appropriated. This is at least the third time that the Supreme Court through one of these emergency orders has allowed the president to do that without actually holding it was legal, simply
by making it harder for people to challenge that in court. The AI boom in San Francisco's leading to sharp hikes in the city's home prices are up 25% from a year ago. Here's NPR's Jennifer Lattick. Two AI startups andthropic and open AI are preparing to go public.
And that's brought a flood of wealth already with more to come.
Trump's broke rage says more than 140 homes this year sold for at least a million over
asking it's chief economist Mike Simonson says that will have a ripple effect. "You can't buy in California, you gotta move to Texas and that drives home prices up in Texas." Alex Brenner and his fiancee just endured a brutal apartment surge with rental bidding wars and long lines at open houses. "Best case scenario, there's five people there, worst case scenario, there's a line of 25."
He found a place but the price spikes give him pause about the high cost of staying in the city long term, Jennifer Lattick and Pierre News San Francisco. It's NPR News. Billionaire Mark Cuban has stared into the belly of the beast of America's health care system. "I mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they don't
know their costs." So, can Medicare for all be a solution? We take a hard look at the cost of the program along with US health care itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from Planet Money on the NPR app.
