"Lie," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
President Trump's pressing Iran to make a deal.
“He convened a cabinet meeting today, his first, since the U.S. and Israel went to war”
with Iran nearly four weeks ago. Special envoy Steve Whitkoff was at the table. He confirmed what he described as the foundation of a framework for a peace deal. He called it a 15-point action list. Trump addressed concerns about the rising energy prices stemming from the blockade of the
straight-of-forms. "It's not over, so maybe it'll go up a little bit more. It's all going to come back down to where it wasn't properly lowered." Egypt, Pakistan, and Turkey are playing a role in efforts to end the U.S. as early war
on Iran and Piers Aobatrawi has a latest.
Iran says there are no negotiations with the U.S. and it's list of conditions for halting the war, include payments for damages and an end to attacks on Iranian back militias in the region.
“Trump, meanwhile, says he wants Iran to halt all nuclear enrichment and curb its missile”
and drone production. "Egyptian foreign minister, Badr Abdeladi, says Cairo is working to bridge existing gaps between the U.S. and Iran's positions." He says Egypt is communicating directly with Iran's foreign ministry. "Ayabatrawi, and Pyrenees Dubai, with reporting by Ahmed Abu Hamdah in Cairo."
Meanwhile, thousands more U.S. troops are being deployed to the Middle East, Trump's
facing a new low in approval ratings, 36 percent, according to a Reuters' Ipsis poll.
The latest AP North poll indicates a majority of Republicans still support Trump's actions in the Middle East, as well as far less support for sending in ground troops. As war in the Middle East, nearly four weeks, the war between Russia and Ukraine has reached for more than four years. She's seven four ministers are meeting in France to assist the impacts of the conflicts
so far.
“And P.R. Zellin or Beardsley has a latest from Paris.”
"The two-day gathering will take place at a restored 12th-century Abbey, La Badevo de Serene, about 25 miles southwest of Paris. But the mood of the meeting may not match its score, just setting. There's mounting uncertainty and unease of an increasingly unpredictable U.S. foreign policy. Russia continues its onslaught on Ukraine, unabated, and a new U.S.-Israel led war with
Iran, is causing a surge in energy prices around the world. The organization for economic cooperation and development, or OECD, predicts that global energy disruption will lead to lower economic growth and mounting inflation worldwide. Eleanor Beardsley and P.R. News, Paris. At last, check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 470 points or more
than 1%. The S. and P.R. Zellin and P.R. Zellin were down more than 1.5%. This is N.P.R. News. California is a step closer to dropping Cesar Chavez' day and adopting farm workers' day. The state sent it voted to rename a state holiday on Chavez' birthday after revelations
of alleged sex abuse and rape of young girls and women emerge against the civil rights and labor rights icon, who died in the early 1990s. Governor Gavin Newsom has expected to sign the bill. Congressional representative Joyce Badey of Ohio has asked a federal court in Washington D.C. to force President Trump and the board and staff of the Kennedy Center to revert
to calling the arts complex the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and P.R. as Anastasia Cielkas reports. Badey filed a motion asking a federal circuit court judge to demand Trump and the rest of the arts complex's current board and staff stop calling it the Trump Kennedy Center. In the filing Badey's attorneys argue the new name directly contradicts Congressional legislation,
which designated the arts center as a living memorial to late President John F. Kennedy. It's part of a larger suit Badey filed in December against Trump and many members of the center's board. In the statement T.N.B.R., a press representative for the center wrote, quote, "We're confident the court will uphold the board's decision on the name change and the desperately needed
renovations which will continue as scheduled." The center is planned to be closed in July for renovations that are expected to last two years. Anastasia Cielkas and B.R. News, New York. And today the Kennedy Center confirmed that Bill Moore would receive the Mark Twain Prize
for American humor this year. It's N.P.R. News.
