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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.
What are the latest developments in U.S.-Iran tensions and the Strait of Hormuz talks?
Iran's foreign minister is in Oman today for talks over control of the Strait of Hormuz. This comes as Iran and the U.S. traded fire this week, which NPR's Emily Feng reports ended a temporary ceasefire between the two countries.
Iran's Abbas Aragji is in the Gulf country of Oman today. The two countries have been trying to hammer out an agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz, but Oman is against Iran's proposal for Tehran to collect mandatory tolls on ships passing through. Oman has been an important diplomatic back channel between the U.S. and Iran as well. And the U.S. has tried to open a safe maritime channel that hugs Oman's coast and bypasses Iranian control of the strait. But ship traffic has overall slowed after the U.S. and Iran fired at each other's military assets this week. Ship tracking data shows the number of vessels making it through the Strait of Hormuz dropping by nearly half on Thursday. Emily Fang, NPR News.
On his Truth Social platform, President Trump has responded to open calls for his killing from inside Iran. He wrote that a thousand missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at Iran should they act on that threat. At the White House Friday, President Trump's border czar, Tom Holman, did not comment on the fatal shooting of a man by ICE agents in Houston this week. Holman says the investigation should proceed and that ICE officers will be held accountable if they are found at fault.
Why is Oman acting as a diplomatic back channel between the U.S. and Iran?
We're going to hold our officers to high standard. But we've got to wait for the investigation to play out because who knows? Is there body cam footage? Is there cell phone videos?
Three men who survived the incident in Houston say no officer was threatened. A lawyer involved in the case says the men told him an officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Arajo through the passenger side window Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop. The three reject a Department of Homeland Security charge that the man killed had rammed an ICE vehicle. The governor of Michigan is facing growing pressure to pull her National Guard troops out of Washington, D.C., now that the Fourth of July celebrations have finished. This comes amid concerns they were being used as part of President Trump's anti-crime task force. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf has details.
All 13 members of D.C. 's city council signed a letter asking for Whitmer to withdraw her troops. A coalition of more than two dozen civil society groups sent a similar letter earlier this week. Michigan is one of several Democratic-led states to recently send National Guard troops to D.C. under strict orders to only participate in America 250 proceedings. But local D.C. residents and activists have documented Guard from those states participating in presence patrols in neighborhoods far from the celebrations, something the thousands of troops under President Trump's ongoing task force have been doing for months. Whitmer has previously said she would pull her troops if used in such a way.
How did recent exchanges of fire affect commercial ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz?
Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR.
1,900 personnel are continuing to battle a massive wildfire in southern Colorado. First on the scene, when the blaze broke out almost two weeks ago, were a couple of dozen local volunteer firefighters. Now the fire has become personal to many of them. From Member Station KRCC, Shanna Lewis reports.
The Aspen Acres fire has destroyed hundreds of structures across two counties. That includes the homes of a third of the volunteer firefighters in the tiny community of Beulah. Tom Lacca is the fire captain there. He says they didn't stand down.
It's hard in your own backyard because it wasn't about protecting such and such an address. It wasn't a number. It wasn't a road name. It was a person whose house we were looking to protect.
Latka says they may have their differences in his community, but they stand together. And they'll come back and do what it takes to rebuild. For NPR News, I'm Shawna Lewis in Pueblo, Colorado.
At the annual Running of the Bulls event in Pamplona, Spain, one runner was gored in the face during the San Fermin Festival.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:05
2
What are the latest developments in U.S.-Iran tensions and the Strait of Hormuz talks?
0:05–1:27
3
Why is Oman acting as a diplomatic back channel between the U.S. and Iran?
1:27–2:55
4
How did recent exchanges of fire affect commercial ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz?
2:55–4:23
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What is the response from U.S. leaders and officials to threats from Iran?
4:23–5:04