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New York's LaGuardia Airport may be reopening at least one runway this hour, following
last night's deadly collision.
“Two pilots were killed when their air-candidate regional jet out of Montreal collided”
into a fire truck during landing. Local authorities say about 40 passengers and crew members were taken to area hospital some with serious injuries. The region's port authority chief Katherine Garcia says the fire truck was responding to a separate incident aboard a United Airlines flight when it was struck.
"The vehicle was responding to another aircraft operated by United, then had reported an issue with odor." President Trump says the U.S. any wrong could be meeting soon about ending the war, flanked
by senior administration officials at an anti-crime event in Memphis this afternoon.
Trump spoke to the audience about the Iran war. "Past on preliminary conversations between the United States and Iran over the past two days, I've directed the Department of War to temporarily postpone plans strikes against major energy and electricity targets in Iran." NPR Zéobitroy has more on that story.
“Trump says that based on the tenor and depth of the conversations, he's instructed the”
U.S. military to hold off on striking any Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days as talks continue throughout the week. But Iran says there is no dialogue with Washington. Iran's state broadcast or published a statement from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, saying that while there are efforts by countries in the region to reduce tensions, Trump's statement
is aimed at reducing energy prices in order to gain time to implement his military plans. Iran had threatened to target power plants in Dubai and other Gulf Arab cities if its power plants are bombed. The period between 2015 and 2025 was the hottest period ever recorded on Earth according to a new report by the United Nations.
NPR Zéobitroy's Rebekah Hershire reports the planet has 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 Guterres said this in a speech accompanying its release. "We are news to repeat itself 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. Rebekah Hershire and Pure News. U.S. stocks are trading higher this hour. The Dow Jones industrial average now up 816 points or 1.7 per cent.
The S&P is risen 97 points up 1.5 per cent and the NASDAQ is gained 1.6 per cent. This is NPR.
The Trump administration says it's paying a French company a billion dollars to pull
out of U.S. offshore wind leases and instead invest in fossil fuel projects. The Department of Interior describes it as a refund to total energies for projects off North Carolina and New York. The company says it had already paused the project after President Trump was elected. Trump has sought to roll back Biden era offshore wind and other climate action projects in
favor of fossil fuel investments. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing arguments over whether states can continue to count late arriving mail in ballots, most states require ballots be postmarked and received by election day. But 14 states and Washington, D.C. have grace periods allowing postmarked ballots that
arrive later. The ruling is expected by June, months before the midterm elections. Pfizer says an experimental vaccine to protect people from Lyme disease appears to be safe and effective. Here's NPR's Rob Stein.
The drug maker Pfizer is developing a Lyme disease vaccine with a French biotech company. Pfizer says the vaccine reduced the risk of catching Lyme disease in a study involving more than 9,000 volunteers by about 74%. Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria transmitted by tick bites and can cause flu-like symptoms as well as more serious complications including arthritis and neurological problems.
Rob, Stein, and Pyrnus. U.S. stocks higher the sour of the Dow's up 1.8% SMP up 1.5% and the NASDAQ rising it's up 1.6%. This is NPR News.
