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Why is President Trump demanding compensation over Iran's Strait of Hormuz issue?
Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa Kautel. President Trump is clapping back over Iran's latest financial demands to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. As NPR's Franco Ordonez reports, Trump says he has some demands of his own.
It was just a week ago that Trump was boasting that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But now both sides are making demands for compensation. Cori Shockey served in the George W. Bush White House. She said Iran has rightly assessed the president's desperation to end the war and is trying to hurt the president politically, likening it to the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that helped take down another former president.
It looks to me like the Iranian regime wants to turn President Trump into Jimmy Carter. It wants to impose the kind of humiliation on President Trump that they imposed on President Carter. And she says they appear to be succeeding. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
How are Colombian rescue teams responding to the 7.4‑magnitude earthquake?
First responders in dozens of cities across Colombia are desperately hoping to find people trapped after a powerful 7.4 earthquake destroyed or damaged some 1,600 buildings. So far, more than 130 people were killed by the quake yesterday. From Bogota, reporter Manuel Rueda has the latest about Colombia's third largest city.
In Cali, you can get aid quickly because there's a major airport there. Some areas, it's going to take more time to get aid. For example, in the Chocó region where the roads are in bad shape and where there's many small towns that don't have an airport or that might even be tough to get to with a helicopter. So they're going to have to wait for trucks. to bring aid. You know, that's the case in San Jose del Palmar, which is the town closest to the epicenter, and it's just located in a very remote area on top of a mountain ridge with no airport access whatsoever.
He said many survivors are sleeping outdoors to avoid further collapses from aftershocks. Only a month ago in neighboring Venezuela, thousands of people were killed in an earthquake. Democratic voters will choose a nominee for an open U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota today. As Minnesota Public Radio's Clay Masters reports, the issue dominating the competitive primary is the response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown there.
What are the key immigration and Senate primary issues shaping Minnesota's election?
Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan regularly brings up a vote her opponent, Congresswoman Angie Craig, made in Congress. My primary opponent voted for Donald Trump's immigration bill and was the only Minnesota Democrat to do so. Craig says she regrets the vote. She focuses on her track record winning the state's most competitive congressional district and her time in Washington.
I'm the experienced person in Washington who has a track record already of taking on Donald Trump and getting bills passed. Minnesota Republicans are also selecting a nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat. This is NPR. In California, tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in the state. As NPR's Bobbi Allen reports, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has spent more than $100 million to fight the ballot measure.
The Palestinian Authority, or PA, said the move aims to tighten Israel's illegal control and power on the Palestinian region. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smutrich has said the expansion is part of a, quote, settlement revolution to deepen Israel's grip on the territory. PA spokesman Omar Rajoub told NPR that Israel auctioned off housing units in the first half of this year in what he said are at least a dozen illegal settlements.
This new construction will make a belt of illegal settlements that will besiege all of the areas north of Jerusalem. For NPR News, this is Noha Musleh in Ramallah. That was about the Israel Land Authority seeking bids to build an additional 627 apartment units to expand an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The reporter was Noha Musleh.
Why is Israel expanding settlements in the West Bank and how is the Palestinian Authority reacting?
Millions of people could witness the first total solar eclipse from parts of Europe. This is when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, blocking some or all of the sun's light. NASA says for Alaska and parts of the northern U.S., a partial eclipse is likely. A Perseid shower is also expected to delight watchers of the skies. This is NPR.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why is President Trump demanding compensation over Iran's Strait of Hormuz issue?
0:01–1:01
2
How are Colombian rescue teams responding to the 7.4‑magnitude earthquake?
1:01–2:22
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What are the key immigration and Senate primary issues shaping Minnesota's election?
2:22–4:16
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Why is Israel expanding settlements in the West Bank and how is the Palestinian Authority reacting?
4:16–5:02