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President Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iranian energy infrastructure and extended
“a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6.”
Trump says talks with Iran are going well, and Iranian leaders are begging to make a deal. Limpires are up at Trabbery reports on back-channel messages. "Egypt Foreign Minister actually met with some reporters in Cairo on Wednesday, and he told our producer, and the other journalists there that actually it was President Trump who
asked Egypt to reach out and get this going, so it was actually doesn't seem to be that Iran was the one that asked for this, but rather it was the White House President Trump himself who asked for this." "Miron has said it is not engaged in talks with Washington, and has rejected a 15-point ceasefire proposal as one-sided and unfair.
The Congress struggling to reach a deal, funding the Department of Homeland Security President
Trump says he will sign an order to pay TSA workers, as they face another mispaid check on Friday. Lawmakers are preparing to leave town this weekend for their spring recess. Federal Accords in parts of the country straining under an unprecedented flood of habeas corpus petitions from people trying to get released from immigration detention.
And Pierre's Martin Costa reports that in some courts the immigration petitions are delaying other corpusnus." Last year, the Trump administration restricted detainees right to post bonds to get out while their cases were pending. Many are now turning to federal courts.
In California's eastern district, home to three ice detention centers, Judge Troy El Nunnly
says he and his colleagues are getting hundreds of habeas corpus requests a month.
“"That's a liberty interest, a liberty interest is very, very important.”
And if someone is unlawfully detained, and they make their case to the court, we would be remiss if we waited to get them out of custody." He says most petitioners win their release, but the time to process them is interfering with the federal court's other cases. Martin Costa and Pierre News.
"No, Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Bady is asking a federal court to force the Trump administration to stop calling the Kennedy Center, the Trump Kennedy Center. And appears on a Stosiociocus report." Bady filed a motion asking a federal circuit court judge to demand Trump and the rest of the arts complexes current board and staff stop calling it the Trump Kennedy Center.
In the filing, Bady's attorneys argue the new name directly contradicts congressional legislation, which designated the arts center as a living memorial to late President John of Kennedy. It's part of a larger suit, Bady filed in December against Trump and many members of the center's board.
“In the statement NPR, 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. On a sezzet silcus and beer news, New York.
"This is NPR." Transgender women athletes are being excluded from Olympic events, the International Olympic Committee agreed Thursday to a new eligibility policy that aligns with President Trump's executive order on women's sports ahead of Los Angeles Games in 2028. The IOC says eligibility for female events at the Games or any other IOC event is now
limited to biological females. California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill renaming the Caesar Shava State holiday to Farm Workers Day. Newsom signed the bill Thursday after state lawmakers approved it earlier in the day. The change came after sexual abuse allegations against Shava's.
For decades, whether the U.S. gave for a need for family planning has depended largely on whether Republicans were Democrats controlled the White House and pierced Jonathan Lambert reports a new study suggests which parties in charge influences maternal mortality around the world. In 1984, President Reagan restricted foreign aid for family planning to organizations that
provided or even talked about abortion. Since then, Democratic presidents have reinstated funding to those organizations and then Republican ones stop it again. This research has found that restricting aid doesn't reduce abortion rates, but does often force health clinics to close.
That can be deadly for mothers. New research suggests aid restrictions by Republican presidents are associated with a 10% increase in maternal deaths in countries that rely on foreign aid. That increase is enough to offset roughly one-fifth of the overall progress the globe is made in reducing maternal deaths.
The study appears in BMJ, Jonathan Lambert and BR News. We started making a bet in 10 years ago, but the stories in our archive are as relevant as ever, like this series about President Trump from 2017. To better understand how we got here, hear the inside story of how he got here, find
