NPR News: 07-14-2026 1PM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What major legal payment did E. Jean Carroll receive and why does it matter?
E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting and defaming her, has received a $5.6 million payment from her civil case against Trump. She waited three years after a jury found Trump was liable for damages. The money was held in escrow while the president appealed the award. President Trump's hosting Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi today during a joint news conference. Trump defended a decision to reinstate the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz as its war with Iran escalates. He also says there won't be a 20 percent toll on ships going through the critical passageway, but wants to strike investment deals with other countries in the region.
And they said, we'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars and continue our record setting because we would, there's never been a time like this with the United States, with the factories, with the plants, with everything else. And we would like to invest tremendously in the United States as opposed to charging a fee. And I like that actually, because I don't think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the, for the straight or for any other straight.
The U.S. and Iran have been trading fire for several days. The president's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. has been extended until Inauguration Day 2029, the Pentagon confirmed to NPR. Thousands of armed and uniformed troops have been patrolling the city for nearly a year, the latest from NPR's Kat Lonsdorf.
President Trump first deployed the National Guard to D.C. last August after declaring a crime emergency in the city despite violent crime being at a 30-year low. That emergency declaration lifted a month later, but the Guard and the Federal Law Enforcement Task Force that they're a part of remained. Since then, the number of troops has steadily increased to now nearly 5,000 from more than 20 different states in a cost of around $3 million per day.
How did President Trump address the Strait of Hormuz and regional investment plans?
Two different studies have found that the presence of the National Guard has had no effect on violent crime in the city. The White House did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on why the extension of the deployment for another two and a half years was deemed necessary. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Washington.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pause non-urgent vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in less than a week. That, according to Maine Senator Angus King, who spoke with NPR, or whose office spoke with NPR. A spokesman for King says the Department of Homeland Security confirmed the policy shift. Maine Senator Susan Collins also posted on X Today that she had called for a change. The most recent death happened Monday in Biddeford, Maine, where ICE agents tried to pull over the car of a 26-year-old Colombian man. Members of a congressional committee questioned Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh today. He told lawmakers a central bank will make high inflation a thing of the past, but he did not immediately specify how.
It's NPR. A drop in oil prices in June led to a sharp drop in inflation after May's more than three-year record high. NPR's Stephen Passaha with more.
Consumer prices in June were up 3.5 percent from a year earlier, higher than the Federal Reserve wants, but lower than May's high. Prices in June were down 0.4 percent from a month earlier. The decrease primarily comes down to the main driving force behind inflation in recent months, energy prices. They fell 5.7 percent in June from a month earlier. Gas prices at the end of June were about 71 cents lower than they were during the May peak, and they've remained steady since. But renewed conflict between the U.S. and Iran could send those prices back up. Strip-away food and energy prices and so-called core inflation for the 12 months ending in June was 2.6 percent. Stephen Massaha, NPR News.
The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads has fallen for the third straight year, but NPR's Joel Rose reports fatalities are still well above pre-pandemic levels.
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