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The United Nations says both the U.S. and Iran are suspected of committing war crimes or crimes
“against humanity since they went to war more than six months to go.”
NPR's Hadile, Al-Shaltchi, brings us details of the findings from Istanbul. The United Nations fact-finding mission for its top human rights body said it has found "reasonable grounds to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in two strikes, on a school and another on a sports complex and residential area both in southern Iran." The U.N. says almost 180 people, including children, were killed in both strikes.
The U.S. has yet to respond to the claim of the school strike and denied striking the sports complex. The report also found that killings by Iranian state security forces occurred on a quote staggering scale in Iran during protests before the war.
It said many forces shot at crowds from rooftops using assault rifles.
It also fired tear gas to trap demonstrators and narrow alleys before shooting at them. Hadile Al-Shaltchi and PR news, Istanbul. Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in the United States next week for a state visit.
“He and President Trump are expected to discuss a trade truce that will expire in November.”
And PR's Emily Feng has exclusive details on the status of that truce. As part of the truce, the U.S. pulled back from cutting off advanced semiconductors to China and China backed away from cutting the U.S. off entirely from rare earth products. The truce is set to expire this November. But NPR's reporting shows China offered to extend the truce to the end of Trump's term
in January, 2029, and the U.S. counter-offers saying it needed a six-month extension only. In part because of deep distress between both countries, China has not fully let the export of rare earth products which the U.S. cannot make entirely on its own to resume to normal levels, Emily Feng and PR News Washington. President Trump's not happy with the Federal Reserve's unanimous decision to hike interest
rates instead of significantly lowering them. The Republicans as a U.S. economy's doing great and that rates should be no more than 1%. This economist begs to differ. There at points in time where a 1% inflation rate would be the right thing for the U.S. economy. But that is not the world we are living in.
Economist Claudia Sam, a former section chief for the Federal Reserve, says what Trump's proposing could push the 3.4% rate of inflation even higher, Sam says the Fed's higher interest rates is costly medicine. Like the Fed is fighting a real problem, inflation is too high. Americans agree, this is a problem, affordability, this is an issue.
The path to a solution, these higher interest rates, this is pushing more cost in the economy. The Americans who are out there who are on the fence about buying a home and now the mortgage rate goes up and they can't buy their home because they have too much interest because they're the ones who sacrifice is going to help get inflation down. Claudia Sam is currently with new century advisors from Washington, this is NPR News.
The Labor Department is reporting that last week, jobless claims fell to their lowest level since mid July to 196,000. Members of the House of Representatives are heading back to their home districts and to the campaign trail, the midterm elections, less than two months away. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the chamber has done its job.
However, fellow Republican Congressman Thomas Massey criticizes Speaker for leaving unfinished business. Massey had introduced a resolution to impeach defense secretary Pete Heggseth over the U.S. War with Iran, House Speaker Johnson said yesterday the matter would likely be addressed when lawmakers were back.
“President Trump is naming four key people to promote religious freedom around the globe.”
NPR's Jason D'Rose reports they include well-known conservative Christian leaders. President Trump has nominated Sissy Graham Lynch to be the next U.S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom. She's the granddaughter of Evangelist Billy Graham and the daughter of Evangelical Leader Franklin Graham.
The president is also appointing three people to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, Bishop Robert Baron, a former Christian missionary to Turkey, Andrew Brunson, who now leads a ministry focused on persecuted Christians and Joe Grogan, a former director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council and a former assistant to President Trump.
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