Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Take Over’ Strait of Hormuz, and How Russia Made Japan a Den of Spies

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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today is Tuesday, July 14th. Here's what we're covering.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:44)
When it comes to Iran, it looks like they're back at their business, trying to take over the strait. What's your response?

**SPEAKER_5** (0:51)
Well, we're taking over the strait.

**Tracy Mumford** (0:53)
They have nothing.

**Amy Lawrence** (0:54)
They've got nothing.

**Tracy Mumford** (0:55)
President Trump laid out a drastic new plan yesterday as the US and Iran effectively returned to war, the fragile ceasefire between them collapsing. In an interview on Fox News, Trump said the US will charge fees to protect ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.

**Paul Tenorio** (1:12)
Now we're going to guard it.

**Tracy Mumford** (1:13)
We're going to get paid for guarding it. A lot of money. The decision flies in the face of his administration's own stance on the issue when Iran threatened the same thing. Secretary of State Marco Rubio came out repeatedly to say no country is allowed to impose fees in international waters.
Trump's announcement is a new escalation between the US and Iran. They signed a preliminary peace deal last month, but ultimately disagreements over who controls the strait doomed it, with Iran firing on commercial ships and the US responding with its own strikes on Iran.
The tit-for-tat attacks have ramped up in the last few days, and the Trump administration has now formally sent a letter to Congress stating that the war has resumed. Trump has ordered the US naval blockade on Iran back in place, and in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt, he threatened the country with more strikes.

**Adam Goldman** (2:06)
We're going to hit them very hard tonight, and we're going to hit them hard tomorrow, and there's not a damn thing they can do about it.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:16)
I think we're in the phase of the war where we're trying again things that didn't work the first time. But the administration has not made an argument to us yet that this is going to be any more effective the second time than it was the first.

**Tracy Mumford** (2:31)
White House correspondent David Sanger has more about what this new phase of the war could mean on today's episode of The Daily. Meanwhile, while many analysts are skeptical that Trump's plan to charge fees for ships passing through the strait will actually come to fruition, oil prices surged and stocks fell after news broke about the tolls and the return of the blockade. Now, three updates on a series of deadly shootings by immigration agents. First, in Maine.
Protesters spilled into the streets yesterday after an ICE agent shot and killed a man who immigrants' rights groups have identified as a 26-year-old from Columbia.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:16)
No justice! We want ICE on our streets!

**Tracy Mumford** (3:20)
The shooting happened early Monday morning in the city of Bideford, just south of Portland. According to the Department of Homeland Security, agents had tried to stop a car leaving an address that they'd been monitoring. DHS said the driver then tried to get away and, quote, weaponized his vehicle toward law enforcement. But some state and local officials say they want more details about what happened.
The shooting in Maine was the second in a week involving immigration agents firing on a driver.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:48)
It's just, frankly, just disgusting. I mean, their story is just almost like it was a different incident that happened.

**Tracy Mumford** (3:58)
The first was in Houston, where Representative Sylvia Garcia, a Democrat, is disputing federal authorities' version of events after she spoke with two witnesses. The men who were in the vehicle say ICE agents did not identify themselves after chasing down their van in unmarked SUVs. They say that after the van came to a stop, an agent fired a single shot through the front passenger window, killing the driver. ICE has said that the driver had tried to run over an officer, but has presented no evidence to back up its claims. The agents were not wearing body cameras.