Industrial Recovery and Climate Change Impacts

This message comes from Mattress Firm. Sleeping hot can ruin your night. Mattress Firms Sleep Experts can match you with a temper breeze designed to deliver cooling comfort for hot sleepers. Visit Mattress Firm and upgrade today. Restrictions apply . st Soreea for details . Live from NPR news. I'm Lakshmi Singh . President Trump is threatening to strike Iran tonight and plans to target Iran's oil infrastructure such as Carg Island , saying that will happen, quote, in the not too distant future . This following a second straight night of air strikes between the war rivals, NPR's Greg Meyery has more. The U. S. said it carried out dozens of strikes had hit a range of military facilities on Iran's coastline with the Strait of Hormuz. U. S. Central Command said the operation began early Thursday local time and announced four hours later that it was over. President Trump said Iran was taking, quote, too long to negotiate. He said he'd order another round of strikes if Iran does not agree to U. S. terms on ending the war. Iran's revolutionary guard corps said it fired on eighteen U . S. sites in the region, including American military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. Trump also said the U. S. has helped some two hundred oil tankers and other ships evade Iran's blockade of the strait since last month . Greg Meyery, NPR News Tel Aviv. Trump says the U. S. will assume total control of Iran's oil and gas markets . The energy shot from the war the U. S. and Israel initiated against Iran in Late Fr ebuary is the primary driver of inflationary pressures. Polls suggest the Republican leader is facing some of the lowest approval ratings of his presidency in part due to anger over war related high gasoline prices . The US House failed to pass an extension to a key spy tool, essentially guaranteeing it'll expire tomorrow. Here's NPR's Eric McDaniel. Section seven hundred and two of the Foreign Intelligence Surveyance Act enables the government to scoop up the electronic communications of some three hundred thousand foreign nationals each year. The fight to extend the law is a cyclical controversy on Capitol Hill, where many lawmakers of both parties are concerned about past abuses. The law has been used to re ad the communications of American citizens without a court warrant. And it appeared the deal was close to a three year extension with minimal reforms until President Trump named Bill Poulte, a man with no national intelligence experience to oversee the program as acting director of National Intelligence. Intelligence collections will be allowed to continue under a grandfather clause for several more months. The house is now leaving town for a week, Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. We're just hours away from the opening of the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Mexico City. Here's NPR Za Braald. In Mexico football is a religion, so the city is plastered with billboards featuring the country's soccer stars and it feels like everyone is wearing soccer jerseys, including the baby jesus at the Metropolitan Cathedral. But the city is also tense because one of the country's teachers unions has set up a protest camp just outside the main fan zone. They, along with other protest groups, have warned, they may try to march toward the legendary Estalia Steca where the opening match will take place. In the months long tournament, Mexico and Canada will host twenty six matches, beginning tomorrow, the US will host seventy eight games. That's Ada Pralta, it's NP R A large aluminum supplier to U. S. automakers says it plans to restart production at its plant in New York. The facility has been down for nine months because of a pair of fires. Here's NPR's Camilla Dominosky. Novellas is the world's largest recycler of aluminum and the largest domestic supplier for U. S. auto plants. Last year, a crucial facility in New York caught fire twice . That put U. Sut.om Aakers in a tough spot, especially since President Trump has imposed tariffs on imported aluminum. Ford was particularly hard hit. The best selling F one hundred fifty pickup has an aluminum body, and losing its key supplier cost Ford up to two billion dollars . Tariffs on raw materials like aluminum are among multiple factors pushing up costs for automakers and by extension car buyers. Kamila Dominovski, NPR News. A warm and climate could mean hailstones will get large and do more costly property damage. Texas public radius David Martin Davies has more. U. S. losses from hailstorms have increased five fold since two thousand eight according to Viktor Gensen, a professor of meteor ology at northern Illinois University . Last year in the United States alone hailed over fifty billion dollars in insured loss. He says there's evidence that the warming atmosphere creates more powerful thunderstorms and stronger updraft