"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
President Trump says the U.S. and Iran are talking and could meet soon about ending the war before leaving West Palm Beach for Memphis today, Trump pushed back against arguments that he should not have gone to war because Iran did not pose an imminent threat.
“"I think that Iran, if we didn't bomb them with the B-2 bombers, now that's set”
back. But if we didn't hit them with the B-2 bombers, they would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks to a month." Trump addressing reporters earlier today, NPR has not independently verified reporting that U.S. Iran talks may be taking place indirectly. But as NPR-Saniel Lester and tells us, Axiocytes and unnamed U.S. horse-in-reporting
Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan have been passing messages between the U.S. and Iran's
Foreign Minister over the last two days. "It is the first indication we have that the U.S.
and Iran might be holding indirect talks about ending the war, and the question is, are these talks serious? Or is there something else here at play?" Iran's foreign ministry is saying that the President's statements are part of efforts to reduce energy prices, and indeed, we saw oil prices drop after Trump made this announcement. "NPR-Saniel Lester now like oil and gasoline, the cost of fertilizer has spikes since
“the start of the war with Iran from a conversation case to the U.S. for more."”
Former's plant major crops like corn and soybeans in the spring, but first, they put down lots of nitrogen fertilizer, chiefly urea. Urea is made with natural gas, and to almost half the world's exports of it, typically shipped through the straight of removes. Urea prices have shot up by almost a third since the straight closed.
Josh Lindville, Vice President of fertilizer at Stonex, says, "It's his nightmare scenario. It would be this exact event during this exact time of year. It doesn't get much worse than what we're doing what today."
The fertilizer institute, predicts American farmers, will be short, perhaps two million
tons of urea this spring, and grow less food because of it. From Pyrenees, I'm Frank Morris. Trump started hundreds of federal immigration agents to U.S. or airports to help TSA agents who were not getting paid because the Department of Homeland Security is largely shut down. Vice President Pierre's Luke Erick White House borders our Tom Homan is in charge of
the operation. He tells CNN, "I say agents will likely guard airport entries and exits, and he thinks ICE will leave the security line to transportation security administration workers." The union that represents TSA officers blasted the ICE deployment. Here's Union Policy Director, Jacqueline Simon.
It will be easier for somebody with malintent to get through a security checkpoint with
an untrained ICE agent there instead of a trained transportation security officer. Homan said ICE agents will continue their immigration enforcement mission while at airports, but in a statement Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens said ICE agents will take orders from TSA, and the federal agents at Atlanta's airport are "not intended to conduct immigration enforcement activities."
That's Luke Erick, it's NPR. A growing number of people are on GLP1 drug seeking to lose weight. However many are not getting counseling about how their diet also needs to change while they take the medication. NPR's Yucanaguchi has new details.
Ideally GLP1 drugs enable people to change their diet for the better. That means eating more protein to combat muscle loss that occurs on the drugs. High fiber foods are necessary because the medicines slow digestion potentially causing blockage in the gut. In reality however many do not alter their eating habits because they're able to lose
weight anyway, or some skip meals and eat more rich foods which can cause side effects like nausea or stomach problems.
“Nutritionists say changing one's diet is crucial, especially since data show about half”
of people quit GLP1s within a year, then rapidly regain weight. Yucanaguchi and PR news. The public's expected to soon learn the outcome of landmark trials at pit social media giant's against users who alleged the company's platforms are harmful to young people. When trial in New Mexico focuses on whether meta misled users about how safe its platforms
are for children, closing arguments scheduled today. Another is playing out in California where Los Angeles jury is deciding whether meta and Google loan YouTube are liable for a 20-year-old woman's addiction social media. Tech executives have argued they have worked to build in protections against harmful content while remaining transparent about limitations.
The Dow Jones industrial average now up 632 points are 1.3%. It's NPR.
