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Why did the U.S. destroy five Iranian oil ships in the Gulf?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. US forces have destroyed five Iranian oil ships as part of escalating hostilities in the Gulf. The US says the operation was in response to Iran targeting US warships. NPR's Greg Myri has more.
U.S. Central Command says it hit and destroyed the five Iranian oil ships near Karg Island, the country's main oil processing facility at the northern end of the Gulf. The Americans told the crews on the Iranian ships to abandon them before they were struck. The U.S. says it acted after Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at U.S.
What new 9/11 records reveal about toxic air near Ground Zero?
Navy warships twice in the past two days. The American ships were not hit and continue to operate in the region. The US is stepping up economic pressure on Iran and exchanges of fire have increased in recent days.
How is the USPS new online voting system being challenged in court?
The US also hit three Iranian oil ships last Saturday. Greg Myri, MPR News, Washington.
New York City has released long withheld nine eleven records on toxic air near Ground Zero twenty five years after the attacks on the World Trade Center. More people have died from nine eleven related illnesses than those killed in the attacks. Steve Kastenbaum reports the documents show what officials knew when they said it was safe to return.
Over one hundred and seventy thousand documents were made public after Mayor Zaram Mamdani's administration settled two lawsuits from nine eleven advocacy organizations.
Why did a federal judge block Missouri’s old congressional districts for the November election?
Because the leaders they trusted Lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air.
New York Congressman Gerald Nadler was among those who started the quest for this information more than two decades ago.
Officials like EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman and Mayor Giuliani denied claims like mine, saying the air was perfectly safe.
How did AI claim to solve the Navier‑Stokes existence and smoothness problem?
Blasphemous.
The public can browse this first batch of documents through a portal on the city's website. For NPR News, I'm Steve Kastenbaum in New
York. The Inspector General's office for the US Postal Service is looking into a new technical system the agency is developing for mail in balance in the midterm election. As NPR's Hansy Lo Wong reports that new technology is part of a legal fight at the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Postal Service built the new online system after President Trump put out an order calling for it to deliver mail and ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mailing agency. We should note USPS is a financial supporter of NBR.
What led Live Golf to file for bankruptcy and how will it restructure?
Last week, an anonymous federal government official filed a report claiming that system has not been properly tested and could lead to eligible voters not getting ballots in time for the midterm general election or at all. Now the U.S. SPS Inspector General's office says it's conducting an independent review of those claims. A federal judge has blocked the Postal Service from requiring states to use the online portal for their mail and balance for the midterms. The judge found it has no authority to impose that requirement. USPS is now asking the Supreme Court and an appeals court to pause the judge's ruling. Hanzi Lewong, NPR News.
This is NPR. A federal judge in Missouri has temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November election after the US Supreme Court to date declined to get involved in the legal battle. The move came just days after the Missouri Supreme Court said the state cannot use a new congressional map. that President Trump hoped would help Republicans keep control of the US House. AI has solved one of Mathematics' most famous unanswered problems, Katie Riddle reports.
The question is known as the Nevee Stokes existence and smoothness problem. It's one of seven Millennium Prize problems designated by scholars in 2000 to highlight some of the most important challenges in mathematics. OpenAI says one of its unreleased models took just 88 hours to produce a possible solution. The problem concerns equations used to describe how fluids move, including in weather models. Scientists use versions of them to model everything from weather and ocean currents to airflow around airplanes and blood moving through the body.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did the U.S. destroy five Iranian oil ships in the Gulf?
0:00–0:37
2
What new 9/11 records reveal about toxic air near Ground Zero?
0:37–0:52
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How is the USPS new online voting system being challenged in court?
0:52–1:29
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Why did a federal judge block Missouri’s old congressional districts for the November election?
1:29–1:51
5
How did AI claim to solve the Navier‑Stokes existence and smoothness problem?
1:51–2:26
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What led Live Golf to file for bankruptcy and how will it restructure?
2:26–5:01