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military strikes between the U.S. and Iran will last long, and speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the upcoming mid-term elections do not factor into his Iran strategy. "It's very simple, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, as soon as it's over, which I don't think will be very much longer.
I don't know how much more they can take, but whatever it is, it doesn't matter. And I'm not affected by the election." Number one, I'm not running. My part is running, and I'm going to help my party.
“But I think my party respects the fact that we're not allowing the rent to have a nuclear”
weapon." Fiting as escalated since U.S. strikes over the weekend hit Iranian rocket launchers on an island in the Strait of Formus. Iran has been responding with attacks on U.S. allies in the Gulf region, and Iranian state media say a U.S. strike hit a wedding party, killing at least four people in wounding dozens.
The return to military strikes follows a month-long low on the war's led to a spike in oil prices. The Justice Department has taken action to dismantle a long-running militia-stitial operation. It's hoped the disruption will prevent bad actors from using thousands of infected devices
to launch attacks as an imperialist and a McLaughlin reports. U.S. and European law enforcement officers partnered with private sector organizations, including crowd strike in the shadow-server foundation, to take down a 23-year-old botnet on the internet called Salad. A botnet as a zombie army of infected devices that are controlled by a bad actor who
“uses them to disguise and launch cyber attacks.”
The public-private team conducted what's called a "sinkle operation," giving the infected devices new commands to cut them off from their criminal overlords. Instead of the infected devices linking directly back to cybercriminals servers, they communicated directly with each other, a feature that made it more difficult for officials to entangle. Cybercriminals commonly weaponize and secure devices like routers, without their owners'
knowledge. General McLaughlin, NPR News Now to Florida, where elite grand jury report details how Governor Ron DeSantis's administration misappropriated millions from a Medicaid settlement. Douglas Sol from member station W. U.S. F. has more.
The report says the money first went to a charity, then ultimately went to oppose an unsuccessful
state ballot proposal to allow recreational marijuana. The grand jury didn't issue indictments, saying no one would take responsibility. It did recommend more guardrails. U.S. representative Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for Governor agrees.
“"My commitments are very clear, we are going to work with the legislature, we're going”
to make the necessary laws changes so that does not occur again." Democratic nominee David Jolly also wants to report, though he wants another investigation too. The report details the involvement of two officials, DeSantis later appointed to hire office. Both are our November ballot and deny wrongdoing.
For impure news, I'm Douglas Sol, in Tallahassee." "And you're listening to NPR News." A federal judge says the Supreme Court has spoken, U.S. District Judge Deborah Bourbon in Maryland, is blocking the Trump administration's latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship, pointing to the Supreme Court's rejection in June of Trump's initial effort.
Bourbon granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday halting the latest executive order until a class action lawsuit is resolved. As kids go back to school, in Francis, week classrooms are shrinking. NPR's Eleanor Beards reports are about 160,000 fewer students compared to last year, a sign of Europe's demographic decline due to falling birth rates.
The French Education Ministry says by 2035, schools will have 1.7 million fewer students,
a 14% decrease. The decline is expected to first affect preschools and elementary schools before extending to middle and high schools. The impact is likely to be strongest in Paris, where primary school enrollment could fall by as much as 29%.
Sorbonne University Professor Gabriela Latanzio called the decline a tragedy on News Channel France 24. "It is a concern for how you will organize the school. Of course, we'll have to close down a number of them in some regions of the country." This is Education Ministry says the country's school system will have to be completely revised.
Eleanor Beards Lee and Piano News. In plushing Meadows, New York, depending US Open Tennis Champion Arina Sabolica is through to the third round. Sabolinka just took 53 minutes to beat Palinas Fikinko in Wednesday night. Sabolinka trying to become the first player to win 3 consecutive US Open Title since Serena
Williams. This is in Piano. Canada and Tariffs, Venezuela and oil, the war in Iran, these are big, complicated stories. And they're changing fast. To stay ahead, start your day with Up First from NPR.
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