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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump says the US Will bomb all of Iran's electrical plants and send Iran back to the Stone Age in the next two to three weeks. That's if a deal is not reached. NPR's Ayya Batrawi reports on reactions from Iran to President Trump's national address last night.
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Iran's aerospace commander Syed Majid Mousavi said threats to blow Iran back to the Stone Age are Hollywood delusions. The Revolutionary Guard commander said in a post online the US s 250 year history is paltry next to Iran's thousands year old civilization. Iran's Foreign Ministry said Iran will continue fighting as long as it's attacked and will not tolerate a cycle of more negotiations followed by war. The Foreign Ministry said after Trump's speech, in which he called Iran the world's top sponsor of terror, that Israel is the one facing charges of genocide in Gaza, which Israel denies. Meanwhile, Iran says a key bridge connecting the city of Karaj to Tehran was bombed and a 100-year-old medical research center in the capital was damaged. Earlier, a company manufacturing medicine for treating cancer was destroyed. Aya Baltrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
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Iran continues to choke off oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. In his address, President Trump also said forcing Iran to release control of that waterway is not the US's problem. The British government has convened a multinational virtual meeting today. British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says Iran is to blame for cutting off energy supplies.
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Iranian recklessness towards countries who were never involved in this conflict, which we and 130 countries across the world have strongly condemned at the United nations, is not just hitting mortgage rates and petrol prices. And the cost of living here in the UK and in many different countries across the world, it is hitting a global economic security.
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French President Emmanuel Macron says using military force to reopen the strait is, quote, unrealistic. Americans are feeling pessimistic about their retirement savings. A new survey from Northwestern Mutual found 46% of respondents believe they will not be ready for retirement. NPR's Stephen Bisaha has more.
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Americans typically think they'll need close to one and a half million dollars to retire comfortably. John Roberts is Northwestern Mutual's chief field officer and he says 48% think it's likely they'll outlive their savings.
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That kind of wild. Almost half of all the respondents say I don't think I'm going to be prepared for retirement when the time comes. And then almost half say and I don't think I'm going to have enough for as long as I expect I'm going to live in retirement.
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Respondents also worry whether Social Security will still be there when it's their turn to retire. Projections from the Congressional Budget Office indicate as of now, Social Security's trust fund for benefits may run out in 2032. Stephen Bassarha, NPR News.
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On Wall street, the Dow Jones industrials are down about 90 points. You're listening to NPR. Members of a federal planning agency will meet today to hold a final vote on President Trump's planned White House ballroom. The vote is going ahead even though a federal judge ordered a temporary stop to construction this week. The judge says Congress has to authorize it. The planning agency can still vote on the ballroom but cannot override the judge's ruling. Trump officials have filed an appeal. A new paper in the journal JAMA Psychiatry suggests mental health care providers should ask patients regularly about their use of AI chatbots. NPR's Ritu Chatterjee says it's similar to how they ask patients about sleep, exercise, diet and substance use.
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Recent data suggests nearly half of adults with mental health conditions use AI chatbots for emotional support, including for anxiety and depression. Shadi Saba is at the New York University School of Social Work and an author of the new paper People who
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are using these tools on a regular basis to ask about stressful experiences and how to cope with stressful experiences, personal relationship challenges.
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He says mental health care providers can learn a lot about their patients lives and mental health by asking them about their conversations with chatbots. They might hear about things patients are struggling with that they might not have volunteered during therapy. Read the Chatterjee, NPR News.
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NASA has successfully launched the Artemis 2 lunar mission into space launch. The crew is spending the day in Earth orbit. If NASA mission managers are satisfied with this, the Artemis team will then hurtle toward the moon and fly around it. They'll return to earth in about 10 days. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.
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