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Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corvo Coleman, President Trump gave the ...

to the nation last night since launching the war against Iran.

He says the U.S. should conclude its operation in about two to three weeks, but he offered

no specifics about Iran's nuclear material. It's believed Iran has about a thousand pounds of highly enriched uranium, and NPR's Greg Myre says it's not fully clear where it's stored. We've had no information, and we've heard from the head of the UN's atomic energy agency, who they saw that more than a year ago.

They don't know where that is, but not clear how the U.S. plans to get that material. If Iran might make a deal on it, so still, as much as he talked about the fact that Iran shouldn't get a nuclear weapon ever, he didn't say how the U.S. would be able to guarantee it. NPR's Greg Myre reporting, oil markets have not been calmed by the President's address, benchmark

crude oil prices have risen to more than one hundred eight dollars a barrel. In his remarks, President Trump said the U.S. does not need oil from the straight-of-war moves. He said that it will open up naturally after the conflict is over. But earlier yesterday, Trump threatened Iran if the straight was not reopened, and PR's

Camilla Dominozki reports markets are volatile.

How long traffic through the straight-of-war moves remains disrupted is a crucial question

for oil markets. Al Salazar is with the energy data company in Varus, and based on their models.

We found that for basically every month that this, you know, varies in terms of our

or moves closure. There's about a $15, $15 move in our forecast. That's per barrel Camilla Dominozki and PR news. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is hosting a meeting today virtually with almost three dozen countries about the straight-of-war moves.

British leaders say they will talk about viable diplomatic and political ways to reopen the straight. The United States is not participating. A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical about the Trump administration's effort to limit birthright citizenship.

That includes some justices nominated by President Trump, but appears Kerry Johnson reports

the outcome of the case remains far from certain. President Trump issued an executive order on day one that would end citizenship to babies born to people who are in the country illegally, or hear to work or visit on a temporary basis. If the Supreme Court agrees that order could affect 250,000 babies, born in the US each

year, and potentially be used to help revoke the citizenship of many others born earlier. Trump attended for the Solicitor General's arguments, but left as attorneys to seal you wrong-made her case for people challenging his order, while told the justices to agree with the President would radically rewrite the Constitution and, up and more than 150 years of settled law, a decision is expected near the end of the Supreme Court term this summer,

Kerry Johnson and PR news. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The US has lifted sanctions on Venezuela's acting leader, Dilce Rodriguez, the Trump administration recognized her as the country's lawful leader after U.S. troops captured former President Nicholas Maduro and his wife to face U.S. drug charges.

Rodriguez was first sanctioned by the U.S. for undermining democracy.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved another obesity pill, and PR Sydney Lepkin reports this one is from Pharmaceutical Maker, Eli Lilly. Eli Lilly's new pill is called Fendale. Although this is the same company behind Zepbound, the Blockbuster Injectable Obesity Medicine, Eli Lilly decided not to take Zepbound's main ingredient and make it in pill form.

Instead, the company developed a new ingredient, or for Glippron. Daniel Skavronsky, the company's chief scientific and medical officer, says until now, all of these GOP-1 drugs have been peptides, meaning they need to be taken as injections or as a pill with restrictions. Our goal here was to make something as simple as possible, that means we had to rely on more

complicated science. Lilly hasn't announced a list price yet, but it says people with commercial insurance could pay as little as $25 a month. City Lepkin and PR News. NASA has successfully launched the Artemis 2 Lunar Mission into space.

The four member crew is spending the day in Earth orbit. They're testing their equipment before turning their capsule toward the moon. If NASA mission managers are satisfied, the Artemis team will then hurdle toward the moon and fly around it. They will return to Earth in about 10 days.

I'm Korvakulman and PR News in Washington.

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