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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
Chapter 2: What are President Trump's recent threats towards Iran?
President Trump says the U.S. will bomb all of Iran's electrical plants and send Iran back to the Stone Age in the next two to three weeks. That's if a deal is not reached. NPR's Abe Atrawi reports on reactions from Iran to President Trump's national address last night.
Iran's aerospace commander, Syed Majid Mousavi, said threats to blow Iran back to the Stone Age are Hollywood delusions. The Revolutionary Guard commander said in a post online, the U.S. 's 250-year history is paltry next to Iran's thousands-year-old civilization.
Iran's foreign ministry said Iran will continue fighting as long as it's attacked and will not tolerate a cycle of more negotiations followed by war. The foreign ministry said after Trump's speech, in which he called Iran the world's top sponsor of terror, that Israel is the one facing charges of genocide in Gaza, which Israel denies.
Meanwhile, Iran says a key bridge connecting the city of Karaj to Tehran was bombed and a 100-year-old medical research center in the capital was damaged. Earlier, a company manufacturing medicine for treating cancer was destroyed.
Chapter 3: How is Iran responding to U.S. military threats?
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Iran continues to choke off oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In his address, President Trump also said forcing Iran to release control of that waterway is not the U.S. 's problem. The British government has convened a multinational virtual meeting today. British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says Iran is to blame for cutting off energy supplies.
That Iranian recklessness towards countries who were never involved in this conflict, which we and 130 countries across the world have strongly condemned at the United Nations, is not just hitting mortgage rates and petrol prices and the cost of living here in the UK and in many different countries across the world. It is hitting our global economic security.
French President Emmanuel Macron says using military force to reopen the strait is, quote, unrealistic. Americans are feeling pessimistic about their retirement savings. A new survey from Northwestern Mutual found 46 percent of respondents believe they will not be ready for retirement. NPR's Stephen Bissaha has more.
Americans typically think they'll need close to one and a half million dollars to retire comfortably. John Roberts is Northwestern Mutual's chief field officer, and he says 48 percent think it's likely they'll outlive their savings.
In a while, almost half of all the respondents say, I don't think I'm going to be prepared for retirement when the time comes. And then almost half say, and I don't think I'm going to have enough for as long as I expect I'm going to live in retirement.
Respondents also worry whether Social Security will still be there when it's their turn to retire. Projections from the Congressional Budget Office indicate, as of now, Social Security's trust fund for benefits may run out in 2032. Stephen Passaha, NPR News.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrials are down about 90 points. You're listening to NPR. Members of a federal planning agency will meet today to hold a final vote on President Trump's planned White House ballroom. The vote is going ahead, even though a federal judge ordered a temporary stop to construction this week. The judge says Congress has to authorize it.
The planning agency can still vote on the ballroom but cannot override the judge's ruling. Trump officials have filed an appeal. A new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests mental health care providers should ask patients regularly about their use of AI chatbots. And Piers Ritu Chatterjee says it's similar to how they ask patients about sleep, exercise, diet, and substance use.
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