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U.S. military launched airstrikes in Iran for a second day on Tuesday and Iran responded
“with missiles and drones following a month-long pause.”
Iran's president says his country is willing to go back to a ceasefire if the Trump administration is open to it as in Piersadillo Shaltchi reports. >> 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 set 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. >> Renewed attacks are pushing oil prices higher, Brent Crew, the international standard is trading above $95 a barrel.
“Jerusalem, the Lindsey Clancy murder trial are said to deliberate for a fifth day.”
Clancy is a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Jerusalem resumed trying to reach a verdict Wednesday that Judge in the case asked them to keep trying after they send him a note saying they were deadlock reported that Rebecca is covering the trial for member station WBUR. >> This jury of nine women and three men have some options.
They've been asked to decide if Lindsey Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree
murder, or manslaughter, or if she's not criminally responsible because of her mental state. Her defense argues she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and was not in control of her behavior. The prosecution says she deliberately planned to kill her children.
They were five years old, three years old, and eight months old at the time. >> Grand Canyon experts say flash floods there are common, but over the weekend, the deadly
“mudslides were unusual because of where the rain fell from a member station KJZZ, Alexander”
reports. >> As a scientist at the University of New Mexico who's been studying the Canyon since the late 90s, Laura Crossie has seen a lot of floods. But she says these monsoon rains fell on a wildfire burn scar, then flowed into an area with human infrastructure.
>> That's not normally what you get in a flood in Grand Canyon. You normally have trees and maybe rocks and mud and sand and so forth, but you don't usually have pieces of bridges and things like that. >> But even the huge amount of dirt and debris might not change the river too much. Experienced rafters say big floods often form new rapids and reshaped the water's course.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. >> This is NPR. >> Ed Ward is weakening the National Hurricane Center says Ed Ward is now a tropical depression after making landfall Tuesday along the Texas Louisiana border. Ed Ward came ashore as a tropical storm in the small coastal community of Johnson Bayou.
The storm now spreading strong winds and heavy rain over South Eastern Texas. A new spider species has been discovered in Idaho from Boise State Public Radio, Lauren Patterson reports on how the discovery highlights a unique ecosystem in the northern part of the state. >> The small, nickel-sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the
Nespers Clearwater National Forests. Graduates student Arnaut Coletayou Mascade found the spider along the lock saw river. >> It was super exciting to find something that we knew that was unique. >> The genus known as Hexora is usually found in the northwest and parts of Canada, but
had never been seen here before.
The paper detailing the new findings outlines how conservation action is needed to secure the survival of the species that is only found in damp, conifer forest in the rocky mountains of northern Idaho. The research team has named the spider Hexora Vandal, honoring the University of Idaho's mascot.
>> For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Kusky, Idaho. >> Stocks in Asia, following Wall Street, Laura Middenwood strikes between the U.S. and Iran, South Korean shares down more than three and a half percent. And Japan's NECA share average has slump nearly three percent a bit of sell-off and bonds in rising oil prices.
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