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a deadline for Iran to open up the crucial Strait of Hormuz until the end of the week.
“Iran has blocked most ship traffic from going through, but is letting a select few pass”
as NPR's Emily Fang reports." Iran's President run on Twitter yesterday that the Strait of Hormuz is "open to all, except those who violate our soil." So Iran has been letting through some ships owned by or carrying cargo from countries if perceives as neutral.
Turkey said earlier this month, Iran let one of its ships through, and India's ambassador to Iran's Iran had let through a few Indian-associated ships, and isn't talks with Tehran to let through more, and a Chinese sailor on a Panamanian flagship told NPR Monday that their ship carrying industrial methanol sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on the same day.
They asked to stay unnamed because they were not authorized to speak to media. The crew of Burmese and Chinese sailors will sail back to their home port in China. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, then Turkey. "A federal judge has reversed the screening process the Pentagon came up with for reporters
“and PRS Ayanna Archie reports a Pentagon spokesperson says the agency plans to appeal the”
decision." The New York Times sued the Pentagon last year for its media policy, claiming it was unconstitutional. A judge has agreed, an ordered Pentagon to give the New York Times the credentials back. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell says the correspondent's corridor will remain closed while the agency waits for a decision on an appeal.
It will instead work from an unexpacility that is outside of the Pentagon but still on the grounds. reporters will need an authorized escort to enter the Pentagon for press conferences and interviews that have been arranged to the Pentagon's public affairs office. Parnell says this is a way for the Pentagon's balanced transparency with security.
Ayanna Archie and PR news. TSA agents have gone without pace since last month when Congress failed to renew funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the lapse has created staffing shortages leading to significantly longer wait times Houston Public Media's Bianca Seward is at Bush Intercontinental Airport where TSA call-out rates are especially high.
TSA times here is stretch more than four and a half hours. The lines for security sprawl across two floors and for many passengers the travel troubles began Sunday night. Arianna Bassulto was held up in security lines for more than three hours and missed her flight. She came back thinking she was more prepared.
“Yeah, I got here five hours earlier, I think it was not going to look like what it did.”
Yes, she was way worse than what it did yesterday. My agents have also been dispatched to the airport, though their role here isn't immediately clear. For now, agents have been spotted patrolling inside the airport. For NPR News, I'm Bianca Seward, in Houston.
No perfect NCAA men's college basketball brackets remain among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge.
The end came yesterday when Tennessee beat Virginia, ESPN had 26 and a half million entries
hundreds of perfect brackets remain in the women's tournament. This is NPR. Preservation groups are suing to stop President Trump's renovation plans for the Kennedy Center. They say big changes must go through the usual Washington review process. Trump has hinted at dramatic work, including exposing structural steel.
The suit says major reconstruction could damage historic fate features and the site's purpose as a memorial for President John F. Kennedy. Trump has reshaped the center's programming, some artists and advisors have quit or pulled out in protest. A new report by the United Nations, show the hottest period ever recorded on Earth was
between 2015 and 2025, NPR's Rebecca Hershey reports the planet has warmed more than two and a half degrees Fahrenheit since the late 1800s. The world meteorological organization is part of the UN, and it releases an annual report about the world's climate. Each year, the report describes how the planet is rapidly warming up because humans are burning
fossil fuels. The main finding in this year's report is that the last 11 years have been the hottest on record. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterresh said this in a speech accompanying its release. "We are news to repeat itself in 11 times, it is no longer a coincidence.
It's a call to act." Climate change is causing deadly heat waves, droughts and floods around the world. Rebecca Hershey and Pierre News "It's National Puppy Day, celebrated annually on March 23rd, the holiday on Earth's dogs, races, awareness about puppy mills, and promotes adoption.
It was first introduced by animal welfare advocates in 2006 to encourage adopting furry friends."
U.S. stocks rose today, the S&P 500 rallied more than 1 percent, the Dow and NASDAQ
both rose more than 1 and a quarter percent. This is NPR.
