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What is the latest tension between Iran and the United States over naval incidents?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Iranian state media says the U.S. attacked multiple Iranian tankers today. It comes after Iranian Navy forces said they captured an unmanned U.S. submarine in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. military said one of its underwater drones had malfunctioned earlier this week, but that it did not collect sensitive information. NPR's Hadil El-Shalchi reports.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Navy division said in a statement that it had captured, quote, one of the most modern unmanned U.S. submarines in an operation on Tuesday. Iranian forces released images and video of various angles of a submarine being lifted out of water.
How did Iran claim to have intercepted a U.S. submarine near the Strait of Hormuz?
On Sunday, Iran said it had targeted a U.S. submarine trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, where the U.S. has imposed a naval blockade. In a statement, CENTCOM said that a U.S. underwater drone had malfunctioned more than a day ago as it was surveying regional waters. It said that the drone was an older model and that it did not collect sensitive data nor carried any classified sonar or radar equipment. Hadil Al-Shalji, NPR News, Istanbul.
Canada has levied retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports the Trump administration's escalating trade war with one of the U.S.' 's closest allies is causing economic anxiety in border states.
How are Canadian retaliatory tariffs affecting Montana farmers and the local economy?
Canada is Montana's biggest trade partner, accounting for about a billion dollars in cross-border economic activity every year. Farmers here were already dealing with high diesel and fertilizer costs, and now they can expect to pay more for farm equipment. Brigitta Miranda Freer runs the Montana World Trade Center.
Canadian companies also purchase Montana cattle, and then they send them up to Canada where they're fed out. And by the way, when they're up there, a lot of times they're eating. Montana barley.
It's not just farmers bracing for a hit, Miranda Freer says, but also small manufacturers and the state's lucrative tourism economy. Kirk Ziegler, NPR News, Great Falls, Montana.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene to revive a federal data system the administration expanded to check the citizenship of registered voters. NPR's Jude Jaffe-Block reports.
The data system SAVE has long been used to query the immigration status of foreign-born people.
Why did voting‑rights and privacy groups sue over the expanded SAVE voter‑data system?
The Trump administration linked it to Social Security records for the first time, including records for U.S.-born American citizens, and made large-batch citizenship queries possible. Voting and privacy groups sued, arguing the modified system violated federal laws and inaccuracies in the data would harm eligible voters. A federal judge in D.C. blocked the use of the modified safe system in June, and an appeals court upheld that decision Friday. The Trump administration is now asking the Supreme Court to stay those rulings and allow the safe system to be used ahead of the midterm elections. Jude Jaffeblock, NPR News.
This is NPR News from Washington. Election observers from the Department of Justice have been visiting polling places in New Hampshire during the state's primary election today. The Trump administration says it's monitoring potential violations of election security. New Hampshire Public Radio reports local voting officials are welcoming the extra monitoring. New Hampshire's secretary of state rejected the administration's demand last year to turn over non-public voter rolls.
Who are the suspects behind the Renoir paintings theft on the French Riviera?
Thieves got away with two Renoir paintings from a small museum on the French Riviera. As Rebecca Rossman reports, police say the suspects are still on the loose.
Police described the two suspects as, quote, well-equipped and well-informed. They say the thieves entered the museum early Tuesday by cutting through a fence with an electric knife. They ran off with four Renoir paintings, but had to abandon two of them during their escape. Police arrived within five minutes after the museum's alarm system went off, but the suspects were already gone. The theft comes nearly a year after masked thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, taking off with crown jewels described as priceless, including an emerald and gold necklace Napoleon gave to his wife.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the latest tension between Iran and the United States over naval incidents?
0:00–0:40
2
How did Iran claim to have intercepted a U.S. submarine near the Strait of Hormuz?
0:40–1:20
3
How are Canadian retaliatory tariffs affecting Montana farmers and the local economy?
1:20–2:19
4
Why did voting‑rights and privacy groups sue over the expanded SAVE voter‑data system?
2:19–3:23
5
Who are the suspects behind the Renoir paintings theft on the French Riviera?
3:23–4:26
6
What caused U.S. stock markets to plunge after the three‑day weekend?
4:26–5:04