"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Louise Skirvone, American forces are s...
Iranian targets for the second time this week, as the U.S. tries to gain more control over
“the straight-of-war moves, and PR's amally fang has more."”
President Trump hosted on social media that the strikes today were further retaliation for Iran trying to lay new sea mines in the straight-of-war moves. The U.S. has been removing explosives from that waterway in an effort to free up shipping lanes there. For its part, Iran fired missiles at U.S. bases in Jordan over the weekend. There has not been this kind of back and forth fire between the U.S. and Iran since
late July. Instead, the U.S. has tried to increase economic pressure over the last month via a naval blockade, pressure nations to stop trading with Iran, and wrestling back more control of the straight-of-war moves. Though some Iranian officials have urged new ceasefire, others have repeatedly threatened to hit back at the U.S. M. only fang and pure news in Washington.
Global finance leaders are gathering in the mountains of Ashville, North Carolina this week
“is part of the G-20 Finance Track. The Trump administration is pushing an agenda of deregulation”
and economic growth. Blue Ridge Public Radio's Laura Hackett tells us Hurricane Recovery is also part of the message. "Aren Brown, under Secretary for the Department of Treasury, says the Trump administration shows Ashville as a G-20 host to highlight the city's recovery from Hurricane Heline. A storm that severely damaged the region nearly two years ago."
The Trump administration has been incredibly committed to rebuilding Ashville and has been dispensing funds to the local community. Ashville residents in politicians say North Carolina has only received a fraction of the federal aid it's requested. As a result, recovery has been slow. Over the weekend, hundreds took
to the streets to demand more federal aid. The storm caused nearly $60 billion in damage.
"For MPR News, I'm Laura Hackett."
“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 amid a political dispute over cause of death there, and P.R.'s Maria Goodoy has details. The two deaths are the first associated with measles in the U.S. 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 "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 Goodoy and P.R. News. The Dow closed down 419. The S&P 500 was off 54. This is NPR. The United Kingdom's Parliament reconvened today after some recess and the new Prime Minister
Andy Burnham gave his first speech since succeeding Kier starma as head of the UK's ruling
Labor Party and his Prime Minister, and P.R.'s loan frayer reports. Prime Minister Burnham paid tribute to the right Honourable Member for Holden and St. Pancras. His predecessor Kier starma who announced he's leaving Parliament for a new role in international affairs. In his first speech to Parliament, Burnham pledged to rewire the British state to control of failing utility companies, strengthen Ukraine's defense, and make his
new branch of Downing Street North in Manchester a model for devolving power from the central government to local authorities. This is politics done differently. Problem solving over point scoring. Yosemite would drop in the number of undocumented migrants crossing the English channel from France and said he'll host French President Macron Wednesday to discuss that. Lauren Frayer and P.R. News London. A U.S. Postal Service whistleblower says that Trump administration
is hastily slapping together a new mail-in ballot system that is so shabby constructed that it's bound to rule out huge numbers of mail-in ballots. The anonymous allegation was submitted along with documents to Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. A federal judge is so far blocked the postal service from making the changes for the mid-terms in November, but the administration is appealing possibly to the Supreme Court saying that it is fighting
for election integrity. I'm Luis Givoni and P.R. News, Washington. How did we get here? That's a question we have been trying to answer a lot here at NPR. We are exploring global histories on throughline, where hearing from national security experts on sources and methods, where watching the markets with planet money, you can support this work across all our podcasts within P.R. Plus. Find out more at plus.npr.org.
