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Congress has managed to avoid a government shutdown as voters head to the polls this fall.
“The U.S. House voted today to extend federal spending at current levels through mid-December,”
and President Trump is expected to sign it, and PR's Sam Greenglass reports. The extension avoids the political peril of a prolonged shutdown ahead of the mid-terms. The Senate already passed the measure in August, and the House has now followed with a bipartisan vote 370-48. Congress failed to prevent two record-long shutdowns in the last year, as lawmakers came
to impasses over-expiring house subsidies and proposals to limit the tactics of immigration agents. In the end, Democrats extracted few concessions, and Congress eventually passed funding agreements, set to expire at the end of this month. Trump talks to fund the government again for a full fiscal year broke down this summer.
Now that funding fight has been punted to the end of the year, Sam Greenglass NPR News. The U.S. military says it has resumed strikes in Iran.
“This is the second day of strikes after a month-long "lull" in violence.”
Earlier in the day, Iran's President said his country is willing to go back to a ceasefire at reach with the U.S. in June if the Trump administration is willing to do so, as well. The U.S. Central Command said in a statement that U.S. forces struck targets belonging
to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after Iranian attacks against commercial shipping
in the straight of Hormuz. It also said Iranian forces tried to attack American service members deployed in the region. There was no immediate comment from the Revolutionary Guards, but Iranian state media reported explosions in various Iranian cities. On Monday, the U.S. military said its forces struck after observing the Revolutionary Guard
Corps, preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the straight of Hormuz, Iran responded by targeting U.S. installations in Jordan and the UAE. Hedil Al-Shalchi and PR News Istanbul.
“Wendel Berry, the Kentucky-born novelist, poet, and environmentalist who encouraged people to”
embrace the simple life, has died. This public says he passed away yesterday at the age of 92. Readers got to know Berry through the ways he talked about how he experienced his surroundings while farming his land, on one occasion he read from a poem about slowing down. Breathe with unconditional breath, the unconditioned air, shun electric wire, communicate slowly,
save a three-dimensioned life. In 2012, President Obama presented Berry with a National Humanities Medal.
Three years later, Berry was the first living author to be inducted into the Kentucky
writer's hall of fame. From Washington, this is NPR News. The jury in Lindsay Klanci's murder trial says after many hours of deliberating it's still unable to reach a unanimous decision, and whether to hold a Massachusetts woman criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023.
The judge sent them back to continued deliberating. Victims of utility caused wildfires could stand to get paid sooner under legislation, state lawmakers in California are considering today. The same legislature had blocked parts of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to reduce electric company's liability if their equipment sparks a fire.
Whether or not it is okay for men to wear shorts to the office is a hot topic this summer, with nearly half of the white collar financial industry workers surveyed saying, "Sure, pants are fine for work, but NPR's Chloe Veltman reports some men are shying away." In 2026, there are some shorts wearing outliers in tech, like Adam Masari. The Instagram head spoke about his sartorial choices recently on the throwing Fits podcast.
But I am pro, I'm definitely a pro. But Silicon Valley fashion stylist Victoria Hitchcock says while dorm room style may have been derigurred during the dot com boom days, male tech industry workers have been gravitating away from shorts. I don't think anything above the years appropriate really is distracting.
Hitchcock says Silicon Valley's shift towards more polished men's looks in recent years reflects the maturing industry, employees growing disposable incomes and the power of social media influences in the men's style space, Chloe Veltman and Piano's, it's NPR. 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 U.S. health care itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from Planet Money on the NPR app.
