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President Trump says the U.S. is talking with what he calls a "respected Iranian leader" and says the Islamic Republic is eager for a deal to end the war.
Trump says he extended a deadline by five days for Iran to reopen the crucial straight
of Hormuz, where face more attacks on its power plants. But as NPR's A-Batrawey explains, Tehran has disputed Trump's claims. Here's what Trump told reporters this morning before boarding a flight. "We want to see peace in the Middle East.
“We want the nuclear dust, we're going to want that, and I think we're going to get”
that. We've agreed to that. Yeah. We're going to agree to that." But Iran's foreign ministry says there's been no dialogue.
Iran's parliament speaker called it "fake news" used to manipulate financial and oil markets. But Iran did say there are efforts by countries in the region to reduce tensions right now. NPR's A-Batrawey reporting, oil prices are currently just under $90 a barrel. That's more than $10 down from where they ended last week.
NPR's Camilla Dominozki reports the price of oil has been responding as much to Trump's verbal signals as to physical realities. When President Trump posted in the morning about very good talks with Iran, crude oil prices slid dramatically and stayed down even when Iran said talks were not underway. Ed Crooks with a research firm, Wood McKinsey says oil traders are jumping at the slightest
hint about when the war will end.
“And that's why you're seeing prices swinging back what's in forwards on these little”
fragments of information. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed for business. Only two vessels passed through on Sunday, according to the shipping intelligence company Kepler, down from more than 100 a day pre-war. Camilla Dominozki and PR news.
This Senate is sent to vote on confirming Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen as the new Secretary of Homeland Security. It comes after President Trump fired Christy Nome over her handling of mass deportations and disaster response. Bill Cosby has lost a civil suit in California on accusations of sexual assault and the
jury has awarded the woman who brought the suit against him more than $19 million in damages
and PR's onostaciate seal kiss reports. The jury found that the 88-year-old and Jutainer drugged and sexually assaulted the woman,
“Donna Matsinger, after taking her to one of his comedy shows in 1972.”
The jury in Los Angeles County Superior Court awarded Matsinger $19.25 million in damages. The jury also found for additional punitive damages against Cosby that amount has yet to be determined. Cosby has denied the allegations as he has with all previous similar accusations made by dozens of women.
This civil verdict is the latest legal battle for the disgraced entertainer. Cosby served about three years in a Pennsylvania prison on sexual assault charges before his conviction was overturned on technical grounds in 2021 on the Sezziat Silcus and PR News. This is NPR News.
Door Dash is offering extra money to drivers as part of a program to help offset rising gas prices. The National average price for gas hit 3.96 per gallon in the U.S. according to Triple A and
that's 35 percent higher than one month ago.
Drivers will get a weekly payment depending on the number of miles they travel to make deliveries. Such energy giant total energies has now signed a nearly $1 billion deal with the U.S. government to walk away from plans to develop offshore wind projects. NPR is a Julia Simon reports. Total energy CEO Patrick Puyane describes the agreement to forfeit its leases for U.S.
offshore wind farms as "innovative". Puyane says the company will reinvest some of the money into natural gas and liquefied natural gas projects, those energy sources released major amounts of planet heating greenhouse gases. It's the latest blow to the offshore wind industry from the Trump administration announcing
this new deal at zero week by S&P Global Conference, Interior Secretary Doug Bergum said offshore wind poses risk to national security. The administration has so far not specified what those risks are. Offshore wind is a reliable source of electricity in countries like the U.K. and Denmark. Julia Simon and Puyane news Houston.
A British version of Saturday Night Live has debuted to largely positive reviews.
