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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
What happened in the Strait of Hormuz and who is being blamed for tanker attacks?
Heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. The United Arab Emirates says Iran has attacked two tankers and that one person is dead, eight others wounded. U.S. military, meanwhile, says it has completed a third consecutive night of strikes on Iran. The strikes came after President Trump said the U.S. is reinstating its blockade, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.
CENTCOM announced it will enforce President Trump's order of a maritime blockade on all traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas. The U.S. military will protect ship traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz that doesn't violate the blockade. But the president posted on social media that the U.S. would begin charging a 20 percent fee on cargo that it protects. Tit-for-tat strikes by the U.S. on Iranian targets and by Iran on U.S. Gulf allies have intensified, and the president has alternately said the ceasefire is over, but then said that negotiations continue for a lasting peace deal. Before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, tanker traffic moved freely through the strait,
supplying 20% of the world's oil and other important commodities. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Darlene Graham is expected to be sworn in as a senator Tuesday afternoon. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Graham Monday as her late brother Lindsey Graham's temporary replacement.
Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed. It's my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham, to finish his work for him now.
How did the U.S. respond with a maritime blockade and what are the details of CENTCOM's enforcement?
Darlene Graham will serve the remaining months of her brother's term, which ends in January. A special primary election to determine a new Republican nominee to contest the seat in November has been scheduled for August 11th. The motorist killed by ICE officers early Monday in Maine was not the target of the warrant officers were serving. Maine Senator Angus King says he got that information from Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen. The fatal shooting, the second involving ICE agents in a week. A federal judge slamming President Trump's lawsuit over his leaked tax return, saying it was filed in bad faith for an improper purpose. The judge also recommended sanctions for attorneys involved, as NPR's Ryan Lucas reports.
In her 56-page order, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams blasts President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS. over his leaked tax returns. The suit ended with a settlement, which included the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, which has since been scrapped. Judge Williams says Trump's lawsuit was brought to manipulate the judicial process and to try to use the court to provide some legitimacy to the eventual settlement and the earmarking of billions of taxpayer dollars to address grievances not defined in the law. The judge referred one of Trump's lawyers for potential disciplinary action.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. France's third heat wave of the year is intense and lingering. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that museums, the Eiffel Tower and other tourist sites in Paris closed early over the weekend.
France's state-owned energy group has temporarily shut down three nuclear reactors. The measure is an environmental protection requirement to avoid discharging excessively hot water into rivers already warming because of the heat wave. Forest fires are raging in the south of the country and a rare blaze has broken out in the forest of Fontainebleau around the famed Chateau of the same name just south of Paris. As smoke billows above the 15th century castle, the blaze forced the shutdown of a major highway. The famous Canadair firefighting planes that usually scoop water from the Mediterranean to put out southern fires are now scooping thousands of gallons from the Seine River.
What are the reported casualties and escalating tit‑for‑tat strikes between the U.S. and Iran?
Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
It's not just Europe. The U.S. is dealing with another round of sweltering heat. The National Weather Service is predicting that more than 90 temperature records across the U.S.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What happened in the Strait of Hormuz and who is being blamed for tanker attacks?
0:04–1:34
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How did the U.S. respond with a maritime blockade and what are the details of CENTCOM's enforcement?
1:34–3:52
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What are the reported casualties and escalating tit‑for‑tat strikes between the U.S. and Iran?
3:52–5:04