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Why did the US launch a second day of airstrikes in Iran and how did Iran respond?
Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The US military launched airstrikes in Iran for a second day on Tuesday and Iran responded with missiles and drones following a month long pause. Iran's president says his country is willing to go back to a ceasefire if the Trump administration is open to it, as MPR Sadil Al Shalchi reports.
US Central Command said in a statement that US forces struck targets belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after Iranian attacks against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. It also said Iranian forces tried to attack American service members deployed in the region. There was no immediate comment from the Revolutionary Guards, but Iranian state media reported explosions in various Iranian cities. On Monday, the US military said its forces struck after observing the Revolutionary Guard Corps preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by targeting U.S. installations in Jordan and the UAE. Hadil al Shalji and PR News, Istanbul.
The renewed attacks are pushing oil prices higher. Brent crude, the international standard is trading above ninety-five dollars a barrel.
What are the arguments in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial and why is the jury deadlocked?
Jurors in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial are set to deliberate for a fifth day. Clancy is a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in twenty twenty three. Jurors will resume trying to reach a verdict Wednesday. The judge in the case asked them to keep trying after they sent him a note saying they were dead. Deadlocked, reported Deborah Becker is covering the trial for member station WBUR.
This jury of nine women and three men have some options. They've been asked to decide if Lindsay Clancy is guilty of first degree murder, second degree murder, or manslaughter, or if she's not criminally responsible because of her mental state. Her defense argues she was experiencing postpartum psychosis and was not in control of her behavior. The prosecution says she deliberately planned to kill her children. They were five years old, three years old, and eight months old at the time.
Grand Canyon experts say flash floods there are common, but over the weekend the deadly mudslides were unusual because of where the rain fell from member station KJZZ, Alex Hager reports.
As a scientist at the University of New Mexico who's been studying the canyon since the late nineties, Laura Crossey has seen a lot of floods.
How did unusual monsoon rains and a wildfire scar cause deadly Grand Canyon mudslides?
But she says these monsoon rains fell on a wildfire burn scar, then flowed into an area with human infrastructure.
That that's not normally what you get. in a in a flood in Grand Canyon. You normally have, you know, trees and maybe you know, but you know, rocks and mud and sand and so forth, but you don't usually have pieces of bridges and things like that.
But even the huge amount of dirt and debris might not change the river too much. Experienced rafters say big floods often form new rapids and reshape the water's course. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix.
What is the current status of Hurricane Edward and its impact on Texas and Louisiana?
This is NPR. Edward is weakening. The National Hurricane Center says Edward is now a tropical depression after making landfall Tuesday along the Texas Louisiana border. Edward came ashore as a tropical storm in the small coastal community of Johnson Bayou, the storm now spreading strong winds and heavy rain over southeastern Texas. A new spider species has been discovered in Idaho from Boise State Public Radio. Lauren Patterson reports on how the discovery highlights a unique ecosystem in the northern part of the state.
The small nickel sized brown arachnid was found in the remote mountains of the Nezpurse Clearwater National Forests. Graduate student Arnal Kalatayu Maskare found the spider along the Lochsaw River.
What new spider species was discovered in Idaho and why does it matter for conservation?
It was super exciting to find something that we knew that was unique and and probably new to science. The genus known as Hexura is usually found in the northwest and parts of Canada, but had never been seen here before. The paper detailing the new findings outlines how conservation action is needed to secure the survival of the species that is only found in damp conifer forests in the Rocky Mountains of northern Idaho.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did the US launch a second day of airstrikes in Iran and how did Iran respond?
0:03–1:12
2
What are the arguments in the Lindsey Clancy murder trial and why is the jury deadlocked?
1:12–2:26
3
How did unusual monsoon rains and a wildfire scar cause deadly Grand Canyon mudslides?
2:26–3:00
4
What is the current status of Hurricane Edward and its impact on Texas and Louisiana?
3:00–3:46
5
What new spider species was discovered in Idaho and why does it matter for conservation?
3:46–4:48
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How are global stock markets reacting to the US‑Iran tensions and what’s the latest NPR news roundup?
4:48–5:02