The United States is hosting a G-20 summit of finance ministers for the first...
than a decade.
“In the North Carolina mountains, this week leaders representing the world's 20 biggest economies”
are talking about how to speed up global economic growth, and they're also discussing the US lead economic warfare on Iran. So far, the US has been unable to force Iran to reopen the straight-of-war moves using military force. So last week, the administration announced it's calling what it's calling.
Operation economic outcast to sever Tehran's remaining links to the global economy. Of course, Iran itself is already heavily sanctioned, but now the US is threatening to punish other countries that do business with Iran. NPR has got horsely reporting. US Central Command has posted on social media that American military forces have started
about news strikes on Iranian military targets. It says Iran recently targeted US forces deployed to the region and commercial shipping in the straight-of-war moves. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not including two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania to its national tally of the virus's toll.
“NPR's Maria Godoy reports the move comes amid a political dispute over the cause”
of the deaths.
The two deaths are the first associated with measles in the US this year.
But health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania officials of inappropriately linking the deaths to measles to scare Americans. The CDC did not include the deaths in its latest measles count, which is usually updated on Fridays. Screen shots of the CDC website taken Sunday showed the deaths were added, then removed and replaced
with an asterisk and a statement that the deaths would not be included in the count. The CDC says that information available at this time, quote, does not establish whether measles caused or contributed to the deaths. It is highly unusual for the CDC to withhold such data submitted by state health agencies.
Maria Godoy and PR News. She in was once the hottest name in retail and now is a publicly traded company that made a lackluster debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and PR's.
“Alina Seliyah reports a giant of ultra-fast fashion.”
Spent years trying to figure out how to go public. She was the talk of young shoppers right after the pandemic in 2022.
She raised a funding round that valued the company at $100 billion.
That's more than rivals like Zara and H&M combined. But then it failed to get its shares listed in New York. Then in London, it faced legal complaints in political scrutiny, especially over its factory work conditions. Last year, she raised prices after the U.S. set new tariffs and closed a tax loophole
that the company had used to save on shipping costs. On their first day of trading, she and shares at one point were down 10%. They finished just a little under the listing price, valuing the company at around $26 billion. Alina Seliyah and PR News.
This is NPR News. People are reacting to the conviction of Duane Keefti Davis for the 1996 killing of the legendary rapper Tupac Shakur Shakur's former producer, Darrell Harper. "I still miss you." "Now we got a verdict.
I had nothing to do with the verdict or anything like that. I'm going to roll with it, whatever it was. But I'm glad we got a his spirit compliance free." This week's verdict could further fuel the push to solve the murder of Christopher Wallace Victoria's B.I.G. a friend turn rival of Shakur, Wallace was killed months after Shakur
under similar circumstances. Apple gets a new CEO today. Tim Cook, who ran the company for 15 years, hands the reins to an insider who has been in charge of the company's hardware division. NPR's genre, which has more in Apple's new CEO, who's also a mechanical engineer.
Conternus has worked at the company for 25 years, most recently overseeing production of Apple's iconic computers, phones, and gadgets.
Ternus has big shoes to fill under Cook, Apple grew from being a $350 billion company to a
$4 trillion be he myth. But Apple has its challenges. Cook has been criticized for making the company too reliant on China as a manufacturing hub. And the company's also taken flag for as some see it, falling behind its peers in the tech world in developing and adopting AI.
Next week, Apple's expected to unveil its newest products at an annual event, and it will be the first with Ternus at the helm. John Roowich and PR News. We should note Apple is a financial supporter of NPR. It's NPR News.
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