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"Live from MPR News," I'm Jail Snyder.

Iran is dismissing reports of negotiations with the U.S. as fake news.

But President Trump is claiming progress, and there are reports that the administration

has sent to Iran a 15-point ceasefire plan amid ongoing military strikes. Israel's Dr. Iranian capital wins day and strikes Tuesday, hit two Iranian energy facilities after the U.S. said it would postpone strikes on Iranian power plants until Friday evening

to give Iran more time to open up the critical straight-up for moves.

And pure assembly fan has more." City authorities say a strike hit a natural gas pipeline in southwestern Iran. Iranian state media say another strike overnight also hit natural gas facilities in the central city of Isfahan, and that there were no casualties. Iran has warned it will mount reciprocal attacks on water, energy, and technology infrastructure

in the Middle East, as long as joint U.S. and Israeli strikes continue. President Trump has said the U.S. and Iran have had talks. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister said that it received and responded to messages from the

U.S. passed on through intermediary countries.

But Iran's powerful multi-branch security forces, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,

denies being in talks with the U.S.

multi-fang, and pure news, fan Turkey. The shutdown has led to long security lines at the nation's airports. Keith Jeffries is the former federal security director for TSA at Los Angeles International Airport. The biggest challenge is the security risk that brings to the aviation sector.

The crowds, the angst, the stress, and the shortage of personnel to get them through from point A to point B safely. Senate negotiators working to salvage proposal to end the homeland security shutdown, Republicans and Democrats traded offers Tuesday with little progress. President Trump has said that he won't be happy with any deal, and Democrats have refused

to fund DHS demanding changes to immigration operations. Pilaro has shut down a refinery import Arthur Texas following Monday night's explosion and fire impures Julia Simon as in Houston. The Vilaro refinery handles more than 350,000 barrels a day. It supplies diesel locally to the Gulf Coast, as well as to the Northeast and Midwest via

pipeline. The refineries diesel on gasoline sometimes gets shipped to Europe and Latin America.

It is an important asset when it comes to balancing the market as a time where

supply is being impacted by the Strait of Hormuzhutdown. That's Deb Nolchaudery. Head of fuels and refining for S&P Global for North America, Latin America, and Europe. An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing. It's unclear how long the refinery will be offline.

Julia Simon and Pair News Houston. And you're listening to NPR News. A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice has decided that former President Jair Bolsonaro will continue serving prison time under House arrest, saying he will review the case within 90 days to determine if House arrest should be extended.

Bolsonaro was currently being treated for pneumonia at a hospital. He received a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 election. European soccer fans have lodged a formal complaint over World Cup ticket prices, a group called football supporters Europe, as well as a European consumer rights group, a filed to complaint with the European Commission in Brussels, a alleged FIFA has used its monopoly

power to charge excessive prices. World Cup matches begin in June in the U.S. Canada, Mexico, and that work of families that itself side to understand Alzheimer's disease is facing an uncertain future in Pierschon, Hamilton reports. The families carry very rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's to appear in middle

age. For nearly two decades, the National Institutes of Health has funded research on these families through a group called the "Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network." Dr. Tammy Benzinger of Washu Medicine says it's unclear whether that will continue amid cuts in research by the Trump administration.

The network that's been built up without funding all of that would fall apart.

In 2025, the NIH rejected a grand application that would have brought about $13 million in

the first year. Instead, the network got about 8 million and no money for international sites, which account for about half of its families. The current funding is scheduled to run out on June 30. John Hamilton and PR News.

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