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to allow 20 oil tankers through the straight-of-war moves, as indirect talks between the
“two countries to end the war continue. At the same time NPR's Emily Feng says Iran appears”
to be making more demands of the Trump administration after pushing back on the President's 15-point proposal for ending U.S. and Israeli air strikes. A hard-line Iranian newspaper that is funded by the Office of Iran's Supreme Leader published nine more demands in order to end the war. And among those are dismantling military bases the U.S. uses in the Middle East. That's NPR's Emily Feng reporting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
says church leaders will be able to pray in Christianity's holiest site in Jerusalem during the Easter Holy Week. Police blocked the Catholic Church's highest representative in Israel from holding a private prayer service on Palm Sunday, sparking widespread criticism as NPR's Keri Khan reports.
“"World leaders including Italy and Francis Prime Ministers condemn the police action in Jerusalem.”
Officials there Sunday stopped Cardinal Pierre Baltista, Pizabala, and another leader from entering the church of the Holy Seplicar, where many Christians believed Jesus died in was resurrected. Lifelong Jerusalem resident and Armenian Christian, Gigambalian tried to get close to the church but was stopped by a lock gate. He says the closing at the start of the Holy East Week in Christianity is a tragedy."
"It's a grave injustice and an insult to the concept of the freedom of religion in this country." On social media Prime Minister Netanyahu says he told authorities to let the Cardinal quote "holds services as he wishes." Keri Khan and Pierre News Jerusalem.
TSA agents at airports across the U.S. are expected to receive their first paychecks and
“more than a month this week. Still, as NPR's Winsor Johnston reports, it could take a while”
before airline passengers stop seeing long lines to get through security. Passengers have been facing long and unpredictable weights at security checkpoints with some lines stretching into airport parking lots. The delays have been driven in part by TSA officers working with our pay since mid-February, leading to staffing shortages and hundreds of resignations. Johnny Jones is with the union representing TSA agents.
"Even though they're going to get paid, this is not going to make them whole because many of my colleagues are deep into hole. And so we're advocating for $10,000 for all TSA officers." President Trump signed an executive action allowing the government to resume pay for roughly 50,000 TSA workers. Even so officials mourn that it could take time for staffing levels that airports to recover. Winsor Johnston and Pierre News, Washington.
Wall Street futures are higher this morning. This is NPR News. NASA is preparing to launch its Artemis-2 mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The four-person crew is scheduled to travel around the moon and back over roughly 10 days. Lift off will take place as early as Wednesday. Whether could be an issue, the National Weather Service is forecasting clouds and a chance of showers around Cape Canaveral, mid-week.
The Artemis-2 mission is slated to cover nearly a half million miles.
The final four teams are set for this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Top seats, Michigan and Arizona will square off in Indianapolis as well Illinois and Yukon. As Greg Acklen reports, Yukon advanced after rallying to beat Duke 73 to 72 yesterday in the final second of the game. Yukon freshman, Braelyn Mullins took a pass from teammate Alex Cariband and hit the
game winning shot from 35 feet with four tenths of a second left. "I have the ball and I know AK had just hit once, so I'd do them at four seconds left and maybe just threw a ball back to me. I knew I had to put one up, so man, I'm just happy that was the one that went down tonight." It was the only three-point shot Mullins made in the game. The Huskies and Michigan
Wolverines joined Arizona and Illinois as the four national semi-finalists. For NPR News, I'm Greg Acklen. The championship game will be played a week from tonight. The sci-fi film project Hail Mary was number one at the North American Box Office for
the second consecutive week. The movie took in close to $55 million in ticket sales over
the weekend. I'm Dave Maddingley and Washington.
