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U.S. forces have destroyed five Iranian oil ships as part of escalating hostilities in the Gulf.
“The U.S. says the operation was in response to Iran targeting U.S. warships, and”
PR's Greg Mayary has more. U.S. Central Command says it hit and destroyed the five Iranian oil ships near Carg Island. The country's main oil processing facility at the northern end of the Gulf. The Americans told the crews on the Iranian ships to abandon them before they were struck.
The U.S. says it acted after Iran's revolutionary guard corps fired ballistic missiles
at U.S. Navy warships twice in the past two days. The American ships were not hit and continue to operate in the region. The U.S. is stepping up economic pressure on Iran and exchanges of fire have increased in recent days. The U.S. also hit three Iranian oil ships last Saturday.
Greg Mayary, NPR News, Washington. New York City has released long with held 9/11 records on toxic air near Ground Zero, 25 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center. More people have died from 9/11 related illnesses than those killed in the attacks. Steve Castenbaum reports the documents show what officials knew when they said it was
safe to return to Lower Manhattan.
“Over 170,000 documents were made public after Mayor Zaran Mamdoni's administration settled”
two lawsuits from 9/11 advocacy organizations. People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air. New York Congressman Gerald Nadler was among those who started the quest for this information more than two decades ago.
The officials like EPA Administrative Christian type Whitman and Mayor Juliani denied claims like mine saying the air was perfectly safe.
The public can browse this first batch of documents through a portal on the city's
website. For NPR News, I'm Steve Castenbaum in New York. The Inspector General's Office for the U.S. Postal Services is looking into a new technical system. The agency's developing for male imbalance in the midterm election as NPR's Hansi LaWong reports
that new technology is part of a legal fight at the Supreme Court. The U.S. Postal Service built the new online system after President Trump put out an order calling for it to deliver male imbalance only to people on voter list that the states would have to turn over to the mailing agency. We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
Last week, an anonymous federal government official filed a report claim that system has not been properly tested and could lead to eligible voters not getting ballots in time for the midterm general election or at all. Now the U.S. P.S. Inspector General's Office says it's conducting an independent review of those claims.
The federal judge has blocked the postal service from requiring states to use the online portal for their male imbalance for the midterms. The judge found it has no authority to impose that requirement. U.S. P.S. is now asking the Supreme Court and an appeals court to pause the judge's ruling.
Hansi LaWong and Janus. This is NPR. A federal judge in Missouri has temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November election after the U.S. Supreme Court today declined to get involved in the legal battle. The move came just days after the Missouri Supreme Court said the
state cannot use a new congressional map that President Trump hoped would help Republicans keep control of the U.S. House. A.I. has solved one of mathematics's most famous unanswered problems, Katie Riddle reports. The question is known as the Navay Stokes existence and smoothness problem. It's one of seven millennium prize problems designated by scholars in 2000 to highlight some
“of the most important challenges in mathematics. Open A.I. says one of its unreleased”
models took just 88 hours to produce a possible solution. The problem concerns equations used to describe how fluids move, including in weather models, scientists use versions of them to model everything from weather and ocean currents to airflow around airplanes and blood moving through the body. But the unanswered question is largely theoretical.
And are the equations always behave predictably or can break down under extreme mathematical
conditions? Katie Riddle and Pianus. Live Gulf, which tried to rival the PGA tour, has filed for bankruptcy. The move comes after Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund abruptly cut off support. Live says part of its plan moving forward is to restructure.
It estimates some $500 million in debt. The PGA tour has banned players for one year from their most recent live golf appearance. US stocks sank today after the three-day weekend, and the latest fighting in the war of the Ron Push Royal prices higher. It's NPR.
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