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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
What military funding request will Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth present to the Senate Appropriations Committee?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will ask the Senate Appropriations Committee today for $350 billion to fund the Iran war. Hegseth will be on Capitol Hill as attacks between Iran and the U.S. are escalating, as NPR's Quill Lawrence reports.
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How have U.S.-Iran exchanges escalated and what are the reported casualties and impacts on U.S. troops?
forces have bombed Iranian military and infrastructure targets for 10 days running and have reinstated a naval blockade on Iran's ports and coastline. Iranian media reports scores of casualties. Iran has attacked U.S. bases around the region with missiles and drones, killing at least three U.S. service members since Friday. This week, the Department of Defense divulged that at least 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks, most of whom returned to service. The Pentagon hasn't briefed the press since May, and the hearing today will be the first chance for senators from both parties to ask Hegseth publicly about the depletion of U.S. military munitions, safety of troops in the region, and how the U.S.
What naval and commercial shipping incidents have occurred in the Strait of Hormuz and who claimed responsibility?
plans to resolve the war. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claiming responsibility for an attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and at least one other attack on a ship Monday. The British military's Maritime Trade Operations Center says the attack forced the crew to abandon ship. The latest Iranian attacks came as the U.S. military said it had completed a 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iranian targets. New Orleans is getting ready for Tropical Storm Bertha.
We take all events seriously and are prepared to enhance staffing levels across the utility to ensure that all teams are coordinated, positioned, and equipped to respond as conditions evolve.
How is Tropical Storm Bertha expected to affect New Orleans and how are utilities preparing?
Randy Heyman is the executive director of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board. He spoke Monday night. As Bertha strengthened into a tropical storm, forecasters expect Bertha to bring heavy rains to the Gulf Coast and could make landfall south of New Orleans late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. Hamas says it has chosen a new leader nearly three years after the October 7th attack on Israel. NPR's Anas Baba reports.
Who is Hamas's newly chosen leader Khalil al-Hayya and what is his background within the movement?
Hamas says Khalil al-Hayya was chosen through an internal vote involving representatives from Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Israeli prisons, and leaders abroad. Al-Hayat joined Hamas during its founding years. A professor of Islamic studies, he led the group's negotiating team in indirect ceasefire and hostages talks with Israel. He was a close ally of former leader Yahya Sinwar. Israel has repeatedly targeted Al-Hayat. including in a strike in Doha, Qatar, that he survived. Hamas says four of his sons were killed during the war. Al-Hayya now takes over a movement whose senior political and military leadership has been severely depleted by Israeli operations as Hamas faces continued military pressure in Gaza and ongoing ceasefire negotiations.
Anas Babo, NPR News, Gaza City.
What new U.S. trade and foreign policy moves were announced, and how are they affecting gas prices and public media funding?
This is NPR News. New tariffs on Canada are set to take effect in 30 days. A Trump administration announced Monday 50% tariffs on a wide range of Canadian imports using Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which permits a president to impose punitive tariffs against trading partners who are deemed to have unfairly discriminated against American products. The move is believed to be the law's first known usage in nearly a century. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Cuba is the leading sponsor of what he calls radical leftism in the U.S., and he's naming organizations that he says have been working with Cuban intelligence. NPR's Rochelle Kellerman reports.
Just days after Secretary Rubio hosted a conference on what he describes as a resurgence of left-wing political violence, he's issuing a 70-page report detailing what he sees as Cuba's history of an ideological battle against the United States starting in the 1960s. He says Cuba's, quote, Marxist project not only survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, but thrived. And he calls Havana the ideological capital of the modern radical left. Rubio's parents were born in Cuba but fled to the U.S.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What military funding request will Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth present to the Senate Appropriations Committee?
0:04–0:20
3
How have U.S.-Iran exchanges escalated and what are the reported casualties and impacts on U.S. troops?
0:20–0:59
4
What naval and commercial shipping incidents have occurred in the Strait of Hormuz and who claimed responsibility?
0:59–1:43
5
How is Tropical Storm Bertha expected to affect New Orleans and how are utilities preparing?
1:43–2:09
6
Who is Hamas's newly chosen leader Khalil al-Hayya and what is his background within the movement?
2:09–2:57
7
What new U.S. trade and foreign policy moves were announced, and how are they affecting gas prices and public media funding?
2:57–4:59