Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
President Trump is downplaying the U.S. conflict with Iran saying that he agrees with
“Vice President J.D. vans that it's not a war.”
"I tell you what, a lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing. We did Venezuela and we did this." Trump says U.S. forces are carrying out intermittent air strikes and that no American
ground troops are fighting inside of Iran.
The conflict has killed 18 U.S. servic members and has cost the U.S. nearly $38 billion.
Trump says American strikes have badly damaged Iran's nuclear program and insists Iran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Diesel prices are still climbing after hitting a record high on Friday. Triple A says the national average is now 588 per gallon. NPRs will eruben reports on what those rising costs mean for one American farmer.
Dale Heminger runs a dairy and cabbage farm in upstate New York and Diesel is his fuel.
“"We have to run tractors and harvesters and trucks and they almost exclusively run on diesel."”
The cost for a gallon of diesel is up about $2 over the past year. That means fuel has cost Heminger close to $45,000 for a tank of 10,000 gallons.
Last year, it was $25,000.
"It's really putting a pinch on things." And because crop prices are often set in advance, there isn't much wiggle room. "We're priced takers. We can't just pass it on so we have to weather the storm." He says they're racing for the harvest and for the next six months to be very tight financially.
Bill of Reuben and Piano's The Miss trial in the Lindsey Clancy Murder case is renewing attention on postpartum psychosis and maternal health. Clancy's defense team argued she was experiencing the rare psychiatric condition when she killed her three children and tried to take her own life. NPRs retouch allergy reports Postpartum psychosis is an extremely rare condition, affecting
only one or two in a thousand new moms.
Post health care providers may come across just one or two patients in their lifetime. And then even general psychiatrists know little about the condition and how to treat it. It's not listed in the diagnostic and statistical manual of the DSM, which providers used to diagnose mental health disorders. Piringatal psychiatrists, like Dr. Nancy Baide at UMass Chan Medical School, want to change
that.
“Having postpartum psychosis recognized in the DSM, I think is an absolute important step.”
A step towards helping providers accurately diagnose patients and treat them before the condition escalates, retouch allergy and peer news. This is NPR. Lawmakers in Colorado are demanding that the federal government stop rounding up wild horses by helicopter in the state.
Colorado Public Radio's Dina Sieg reports almost 900 wild horses were recently captured in a remote part of the state. The credit congressman Joan Aguiz says he was horrified by videos of the recent roundup, during which nine horses died. Wild horses are part of the spirit of the American West, and I've long believed that the
BLM needs to curb the inhumane ways in which they are conducting these roundups. But the Bureau of Land Management says these roundups are needed to keep the horses from damaging the land and to stop them from starving on a drought-stricken range. The next roundup in the state is scheduled to begin September 10th. From PR News, I'm Stina Sieg, in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Rome is cracking down on the hundreds of golf carts that are carrying tourists through the city's historic center. Critics say the carts are clogging already crowded streets, parking illegally and adding to the pressures of over tourism. Rome may be as many as 500 carts operating in Rome, while bookings this summer were up 147%
compared with 2024. City officials are working on rules that we cap the number of carts, establish fixed routes and regulate which companies can operate them. Toroperators argue the electric carts take up less space than buses and vans and offer tourists a cleaner way to see the city.
This is NPR News. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, Democratic Socialists are having a moment. What's their goal? The goal being to eventually relive the Democratic Party to perhaps some day develop up an independent party, but we recognize that in the United States they're just as a
two-party system. How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
