Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
The U.S. says it struck three Iranian oil tankers this after Iran threatened the U.S. Navy warships.
“It's the latest exchange of firepower between Iran and the U.S. after the most intense”
week of strikes and months. NPR's carry-con reports. According to central command, U.S. forces hit three Iranian crude oil carriers. One year Iran's vital production facility, Carguiland. The U.S. says Iran had launched missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships, patrolling
the state of Hormuz. Senkham said in a statement that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a guided missile destroyer evaded unprovoked Iranian missile attacks, Senkham says it then destroyed the oil carriers. One was in waters off a man. Iran had no immediate comment.
Earlier Saturday, and Iranian state news agencies said one of its tankers had been hit by U.S. forces. Iran in the United States continued to battle for control over the straight, which is a
critical transportation passageway from much of the world's oil and energy supplies.
Carry-con and PR News.
“The Trump administration's plan to begin evacuation work on an arch in Washington is facing”
illegal challenge. PR's Rachel Treesman reports a federal judge is stepping in. In a late night motion, the judge ordered the administration to provide 48 hours notice, before doing anything other than information gathering, at the traffic circle where it wants to build its 250-foot arch.
The three-veant non-vellerins and architectural historian, who sued over the arch earlier this year, had asked for a restraining order. After interior secretary Doug Bergham announced that excavation work would begin within two weeks, even though the structure hasn't gotten final federal approval. The Trump administration then clarified an illegal filing that it was talking about archiological
surveys, not construction. Rachel Treesman and PR News. The U.S. Forest Service says it's closing down dozens of research stations across the country, but the cuts are not as deep as what had been earlier feared.
“This week, the head of the Forest Service backtrack from an earlier projection that would”
have closed even more of the facilities were scientists to working to preserve public land and PR's Kiara Eisner reports. On Thursday, the Forest Service announced it had finished its review of which research stations it would close. Forty-one facilities across Hawaii, Alaska, and New York City were among the locations added
to the list of places that wouldn't be shuddered, because of their "critical importance." The news came after months of lobbying and advocacy from scientists, lawmakers, and defenders of public lands. Some scientists were relieved their research could continue. Others staff believed the months of dispute and review were an enormous waste of time, and
that the facilities should never have been endangered in the first place.
Chiara Eisner and PR News. It's NPR. Triple-Aics says the price of unleaded regular gasoline is now 414 a gallon that's six more expensive than what it was a week ago. Diesel the main fuel in the trucking industry on rail hit a record high today, 588 a gallon,
up 3 cents in just the last day. The United Nations's adopted resolution to adopt a new world map is NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports the new map will accurately reflect the size of Africa and other parts of the world. Representing the spherical nature of Earth on a two-dimensional map requires some adjustments. Perhaps the most famous of these is known as the Mercator Projection, a rectangular map
that's been in use for centuries. It depicts the northern hemisphere as much larger than it is in reality. For example, Greenland appears to be roughly the same size as Africa when Africa is actually 14 times larger. Critics argue the map is biased and reinforces a colonial worldview.
The African Union led the push for the adoption of a new map called the Equal Earth Projection. It has rounded sides and represents each continent proportionally. The resolution passed almost unanimously. The United States was the only country to vote, no, saying it was a distraction promoting in the ideological agenda.
Jonathan Lambert and PR news. The Army Corps of Engineers is restarting an environmental project on the displaying's river
near Chicago that officials say is critical to the great lakes.
It's called the Brandon Road Interbasin Project. It's designed to stop invasive carp from getting into Lake Michigan. The project had been stopped by the White House. This is NPR. This is Terry Gross, host of fresh air.
I interviewed feminist icon Gloria Steinem several times over the years and we've compiled a special episode to celebrate her life and legacy. Women become ourselves after 50. We drop a lot of baggage and really become much more at true selves.
