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Why did President Trump reject Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says he is rejecting an Iranian plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Ava Pukach has our reports.
Trump told reporters Saturday that the deal, quote, would not be acceptable. Iran made the proposal, which also called for resuming negotiations between the U.S. and Iran at the United Nations General Assembly meetings. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Arachi, told reporters Friday that it was a, quote, concrete seven-day plan to reopen the strait. He said the strait would be opened on the sixth day of negotiations on Iran's nuclear program starting the day after. The proposal is similar to a memorandum of understanding the U.S. and Iran agreed to in June. That deal collapsed shortly after due to disputes over the memo's vague wording, including language related to who would control the strait. The U.S.
How is the powerful storm affecting the U.S. Northeast and what warnings are in place?
and Iran resumed strikes soon after. Eva Pukach, NPR News.
A powerful storm is continuing to move along the northeastern coast of the U.S. at this hour. Some 100,000 people were without power on Saturday, and the storm has led to flight cancellations and concert postponements. The National Weather Service is warning that high winds, tides, and heavy rain will continue through Sunday. The Baja Peninsula and parts of inland northwest Mexico are preparing for Hurricane Polo. KJZZ's Nina Kravinsky reports from Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico.
Officials in the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and Sonora are watching conditions in the Pacific as Hurricane Polo nears landfall. The National Weather Service downgraded Polo to a Category 4 hurricane, but warned it remains a powerful storm. Polo is predicted to make landfall in Mexico's Baja Peninsula on Monday as a less intense but still strong hurricane. The storm has been fluctuating between a Category 4 and Category 5 storm after intensifying rapidly off of Mexico's Pacific coast.
What is the latest forecast for Hurricane Polo as it approaches Mexico’s Baja Peninsula?
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico warns travelers to be aware of flooding, mudslides, and road closures early in the week. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinsky in Hermosillo, Mexico.
CNN is getting a new owner. Paramount is taking over CNN parent Warner Brothers Discovery, and David Ellison controls Paramount. His family is also a supporter of President Trump. Media observers are now looking at what that will mean for CNN's news coverage. NPR's David Folkenflik has more.
you're probably going to see appointed within CNN somebody who's willing to do business with the Ellisons. Doesn't mean necessarily compromise their journalistic integrity, but understand what kind of coverage the Ellisons might be interested in. You know, you saw at two major publications taken over by Rupert Murdoch, the media magnate at the Times of London in the 80s, the Wall Street Journal in the late aughts around 2007. There were such boards created.
How will Paramount’s takeover of CNN impact the network’s news coverage?
And after sort of raising a question here and there, he just kind of ignored and then overrode them.
That's NPR's David Folkenflik, and this is NPR News. In Brazil, with just a little over a week left before national elections, the president has ordered a ban on online betting. The move, the Brazilian leader says, is for health and welfare of families who are falling deeper into debt in the South American country. NPR's Carrie Conn reports.
Online gambling has exploded in Brazil in recent years, and so has personal debt. as well as gambling addictions and suicides, according to a recent national study. In signing the banning order, President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva said his decision was hard and drastic, but necessary. Lula is locked in a tough re-election campaign with the son of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. Flavio Bolsonaro, who's polling at a statistical tie with Lula for the presidency, criticized the ban as a, quote, electoral measure. Brazil's central bank estimates that Brazilians spend nearly $6 billion a month on gambling. Brazil's soccer clubs, however, say without the advertising from online betting houses, their clubs could close.
Why has Brazil’s president banned online betting ahead of the national elections?
Carrie Khan, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did President Trump reject Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
0:01–0:55
2
How is the powerful storm affecting the U.S. Northeast and what warnings are in place?
0:55–1:59
3
What is the latest forecast for Hurricane Polo as it approaches Mexico’s Baja Peninsula?
1:59–2:51
4
How will Paramount’s takeover of CNN impact the network’s news coverage?
2:51–3:59
5
Why has Brazil’s president banned online betting ahead of the national elections?
3:59–4:45
6
What are the recent Russian attacks in Ukraine and the resulting casualties?
4:45–5:04