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five Iranian oil tankers yesterday after Iran targeted a U.S. warship.

And Pierce Hadel-El-Chel-Chir reports Iran has retaliated by targeting U.S. military assets

in Jordan. The U.S. military said its warship evaded Iranian ballistic missiles twice over the past two days and continued to patrol waters near the state of Hormuz. In response, the U.S. Central Command said it destroyed five crude oil carriers of

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the Gulf of Oman and near Hark Island.

Shortly after Iran said it had attacked a U.S. base in Jordan, and Jordanian forces said they intercepted 18 ballistic missiles in its airspace. This came hours after Iran said its forces seized an unmanned U.S. submarine in the state of Hormuz. In response to that, the U.S. military said one of its underwater drones had malfunctioned

earlier this week, and that it did not collect sensitive information. Hadel-El-Chel-Chir and PR News Istanbul. The head of the world's largest museum, the Smithsonian Institution, says he's going to retire. Lonnie Bunch has led the institution for seven years.

In the past several months, President Trump has bashed the Smithsonian, and Pierce Andrew

Limbong says Trump has tried to paint the institution as led by radical activists. In 2025, Trump issued an executive order criticizing exhibits and programs that quotes "degrade shared American values," for example, the E.O. single-down in Art Exhibited about the history of sculpture and racism in America. Japan said July of this year, the administration issued a long report criticizing the

National Museum of American History for moving towards a quote-extreme political activism and last month that apartment of the interiors said that the executive departments can't support the Smithsonian under the current leadership.

Lonnie Bunch is the first black American to lead the Smithsonian.

Federal safety investigators say there's evidence pilots considered aborting the landing of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami last weekend. And Pierce Joel Rose reports investigators planned to interview the pilots today. The National Transportation Safety Board says evidence recovered from the plane's flight data recorder shows that the flight crew briefly released the brakes and increased the

throttle after the plane had already touched down, which suggests they considered trying

to go around and attempt to land again. The Amazon cargo plane overran the runway by roughly 1,300 feet and crashed into two vehicles on the ground, killing five people and injuring five more. Investigators planned to interview both the captain and first officer, as well as the air traffic controllers on duty at the time.

And they asked the public for any relevant information about 21 air, the Miami-based company that operated the flight, Joel Rose and PR news. The Republican National Committee opens a two-day convention in Dallas this evening. The focus is on President Trump who will speak on both nights. They're listening to when PR.

New Hampshire held its primary elections yesterday. Former Senator Johnson-New New won the GOP nomination for his old Senate seat. He'll face Democratic nominee and Congressman Chris Pappas in the fall election. The NFL kicks off today with its season with a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.

It appears Becky Sullivan reports this year the league is rolling out a new three-strike policy for dangerous tackles. The NFL is kicking off with four prime-time games over six days. There's tonight's Super Bowl rematch in Seattle, then Thursday is the NFL's first-ever regular season game in Australia.

The matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams at the Melbourne cricket ground. Then the rest of the week one slate follows all day Sunday and Monday night. The most significant rule changed this season is a new three-strike suspension system for a handful of different kinds of dangerous tackles.

Hip drop tackles, horse collar tackles, launching, blindside blocks, and hits on defenseless players. Now any player who commits three violations in any one of those categories will automatically receive a one-game suspension. Becky Sullivan and PR News.

Another breakaway live golf tour is seeking federal bankruptcy protection. The move was expected after Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth, fun, yanked its financial support this year. Live sharply divided men's professional golf five years ago when some stars left the

PGA for the live tour, but live never generated a huge fan base.

Now the live tour estimates that its debts are at least half a billion dollars. I'm Core of a Coleman and PR News in Washington. Here's a great way to get the perks of being an NPR producer without doing any of the work. Join NPR Plus with NPR Plus you get extended interviews inside looks at your favorite

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