Live from MPR News, I'm child Snyder, President Trump repeated Wednesday nigh...
U.S. and Iran are in ceasefire negotiations.
“"They are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make it deal so badly, but they're afraid”
to say it, because if you give them be killed by their own people, they're also afraid they'll be killed by us.
There's never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran."
I'm speaking at a Republican fundraising dinner at Washington, DC's Union Station, amid conflicting messages about talks with Iran. Trump has not identified who the U.S. is negotiating with many top Iranian officials among thousands who've been killed since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of last month.
Iran's foreign ministers, as messages, have been exchanged through intermediaries, but that does not mean negotiations are being held. A rare rocket attack on Iraqi Kurdish forces have killed at least six government fighters in Pierre St. Iraq reports at Kurdish leaders, say Iran told them the attack was a mistake.
“The Kurdistan region's Peshmerga military forces said six Iranian ballistic missiles struck”
one of their headquarters near Erbil Tuesday, killing six fighters. The Iraqi government says that some of the Iranian ambassador to complain about the attack on the Peshmerga base.
The first known by Iran on Kurdistan region forces in this war.
Iran, since Tuesday, has intensified attacks in the region, including in the Kurdish capital Erbil, where the provincial governor said U.S. fighter jets were patrolling. Regional President Neshevon Barzani says Iran acknowledged that the attack was a mistake and said it was investigating. China, Iran, and their news, among Trump administration expanding sales of higher ethanol gas
of lean and purest julious Simon reports a move comes as prices continue to rise with the ongoing morning raw. Gas with a higher ethanol content, also called E-15, is typically restricted in summer because it causes more air pollution.
“But EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced the administration is allowing refineries”
and retailers to sell it on a temporary basis starting in May. Schools and told reporters at SMB Global Sarah W. Conference that the decision is "giving Americans more fuel options," it's unclear how much this move will affect high prices at the pump. E-15 is unavailable in all states.
E-15 sales were also allowed last year and in 2022 by the Biden administration. The ethanol industry welcomed the decision. Julia Simon and Pierre News, Houston. Cruise in Hawaii evaluating the damage in a neighborhood near downtown Hotta-Lulu, residents air cleaning up after what's being called the worst flooding to hit Hawaii in 20 years.
A stormed-up several inches of rain late Monday, one national weather service forecaster says the ferocity of the downboard even took meteorologists by surprise. This is in PR. Meta, the parent company of Facebook is laying off around 700 people that's less than 1% of the company's workforce, Meta has denied reports that it's preparing to slash 20% and
his empire's son Ruoach reports a cuts comment at a time when the firm is trying to center its focus on artificial intelligence. The job cuts spans several teams including reality labs which works on augmented virtual reality, recruiting sales, global operations and social media products. This according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity so they
could candidly share information about the layoffs. The person says some affected employees will be offered new roles or relocation to other offices, but the job cuts come at an interesting time for Meta. This week the company lined up potentially huge pay boosts through stock options for a handful of top executives if they can drive up the share price.
Meta was also hit with a $375 million jury verdict after being found liable for failing
to protect kids from online predators. John Ruach and PR news. Meta was hit by that jury verdict in a case out of New Mexico, a separate jury. This one in Los Angeles found Meta and YouTube liable on Wednesday and a social media addiction trial and awarded a 20 year old woman's $6 million.
President Trump now scheduled to travel to China in May. He had been scheduled to make the trip this month, but rescheduled with Trump saying he needed to be in Washington because of the Iran war. The White House has trumped his planning to host Chinese President Xi Jinping for a White House visit later this year.
I'm Jial Snyder, this is NPR News.
