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What is the dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Iran says it's approved an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that would allow Iranian authorities to oversee inbound shipping traffic, but the White House says no country will be allowed to control the waterway. And Pierre's Franco Ordonias has more.
President Trump had been saying all week that good things were happening and that a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz would happen very soon. But the split over who controls the strait has thrown the agreement into question. Justin Logan of the Think Tank Cato Institute pointed to the differing interpretations of one single paragraph, paragraph five of that MOU that caused all the problems.
It's a bit like the unstoppable force that meets the immovable object. I mean, neither country's public position at least has changed significantly. Uh and that was what caused the memorandum of understanding to implode in the first place.
Why are Iran and the U.S. at odds over the Strait of Hormuz agreement?
Iran continues to maintain they want control over the strait while the US is seeking a return to the status quo. Franco Ordonas, NPR News.
President Trump is speaking out against Governor Greg Abbott's pause on data centers. From Member Station Houston Public Media, Natalie Weber has more.
Speaking with Punchbowl News this week, the president said data centers bring money to communities. I saw Texas the other day sort of is against data centers. Think it's a mistake. Abbott has issued a pause on new data center approvals until the state's energy agencies conduct an audit of their electricity and water use. This comes in contrast with Avid's previous comments about data centers, calling Texas quote, the epicenter of AI development in November.
Why does President Trump oppose Texas’s pause on new data centers?
Data centers and other large energy consumers in Texas are requesting more than five times the amount of energy used to power the entire state during record breaking demand. For NPR News, I'm Natalie Weber in Houston.
In Puerto Rico, water rationing started today as the island deals with a historic drought. The Water Authority says water will be shut off for rotating forty eight hour periods in parts of the capital, San Juan, and surrounding areas. And Pierre's Adrian Florido has more.
The island's public water utility has, for the better part of a year, not been able to deliver water to a lot of people's homes. So although the the formal rationing is starting today, a lot of people have been coping for months without water for days at a time. Um in terms of how they're coping. Well they're cooking less, bathing less, letting their plants wilt, storing water in buckets and bins when they do get water, filling them up and storing the water.
How is Puerto Rico coping with historic drought and water rationing?
Uh they're buying a lot of bottled water.
Impiers Adrian Florido. Summer's usually very wet. It's the hurricane season, but there's been almost no rain for months. The summer is the island's driest in more than a century. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense agreement, meaning an attack on one is an attack on all. That's similar to the NATO agreement, an alliance of thirty two member states. This as Iranian backed Houthi rebels.
What does the new Turkey‑Pakistan‑Saudi mutual defense agreement mean for regional security?
Increased attacks on Saudi linked targets, the group is blamed for an attack in Yemen and another in Saudi Arabia yesterday. The attacks have escalated tensions since a twenty twenty two truce. The Pentagon has released a new set of files showing unidentified flying objects, as MPR's Jeff Rumfield reports, it's the latest round in an ongoing effort to document weird things in the sky.
A flock of mysterious lights flying over the South China Sea, a black triangle in the sky above Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan in two thousand two, and a report of a large metal sphere with a body inside that fell from the sky and landed in a city in Brazil in nineteen sixty three. These are but a few of the oddities in the Pentagon's latest UFO files, or rather UAP files. Files since these incidents are now called unidentified aerial phenomena. The Pentagon has released hundreds of files and videos since President Trump called for more transparency around UAPs.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the dispute over control of the Strait of Hormuz?
0:00–0:54
2
Why are Iran and the U.S. at odds over the Strait of Hormuz agreement?
0:54–1:43
3
Why does President Trump oppose Texas’s pause on new data centers?
1:43–2:43
4
How is Puerto Rico coping with historic drought and water rationing?
2:43–3:16
5
What does the new Turkey‑Pakistan‑Saudi mutual defense agreement mean for regional security?
3:16–4:23
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What new UFO (UAP) evidence did the Pentagon release and what does it imply?
4:23–5:03