"Live from NPR News and Washington, on core of a Coleman, President Trump mad...
address to the nation last night since the U.S. and Israel launched their war against
Iran.
“Trump says the U.S. can conclude its military operation in two to three weeks, but he”
said if Iran doesn't make a deal, the U.S. will fire on all of their plans that produce electricity. That would affect tens of millions of Iranian civilians, and Piers A.A.B.A.B. "Prawries says Iran has responded." Iran is not interested in just a ceasefire, with another war being launched on them again.
And in response to Trump calling Iran a state sponsor of terror, Iran's foreign ministry said it's actually Israel with the backing of the U.S. that's being prosecuted now in international courts for war crimes in Gaza.
Israel denies charges of genocide.
Trump appears A.A.B.B. Trowi reporting, a top-world energy policy group says the war against Iran is forced countries in the Persian Gulf to drastically cut their oil and gas production. They cannot export these through the Strait of Hormuz, it's tightly controlled by Iran.
“And Piers Eleanor Beardsley has more on the report from the International Energy Agency.”
The I.E.A. says during the month of March, production decreased 25% in Saudi Arabia more than 60% in Kuwait and 80% in Iraq, but the countries must keep some level of production going to avoid the consequences of shutting down oil wells, which can cause significant damage. Once stopped, some wells are difficult to start again.
Others become entirely unusable. A.E.A. President Fatih Birls says the U.S. is rarely war with Iran has resulted in the greatest threat to world energy security ever. Eleanor Beardsley and Piers News Paris. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is hosting a meeting today virtually, with almost 3 dozen countries
about the Strait of Hormuz. British leaders say they'll discuss viable, diplomatic and political ways to reopen the Strait. The U.S. is not participating. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering yesterday's oral arguments on birthright citizenship.
President Trump wants to change the Constitution's 14th Amendment. This gives every child born in the U.S. American citizenship. Piers Nina Totenberg says when Trump returned to office, he took quick action on the issue.
On day one of his second term, he signed an executive order, barring citizenship, for children
born in this country, to parents who are illegally here, or who are here legally, but on temporary, even long-term visas. Several of the conservative justice, however, indicated major questions about how the Trump administration plan would work out in practice. If there were no automatic citizenship for newborns in the United States, if we were
to do that, ask Justice Gorsuch, how would you know who the father is, or the mother, what
“if they are unmarried, whose house do they live in?”
And BR's Nina Totenberg reporting, the court is expected to issue a decision by early summer. It's NPR. Republican leaders of Congress said yesterday they had a plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Still shut down, this morning the Senate used a voice vote to pass a funding measure
for DHS, the measure then went over to the House. The House held a brief session this morning, but members took no action on the Homeland Security Funding Bill. New research shows that psychedelic substances found in nature can be mass-produced in the lab, and Piers John Hamilton has more on a study in the journal Science Advances.
Many psychedelics come from natural sources, like mushrooms, medicinal plants, or the skin of a sonor and desert toad. But a team in Israel thought there must be an easier way to obtain large quantities of mind-bending compounds, including psilocybin and DMT. So they studied how living organisms make these substances.
Then they genetically altered a tobacco plant to give it the same ability. The result, a tobacco plant capable of simultaneously producing five different psychedelics. These products aren't intended for recreational use, though. The goal is a better source of psychedelics for experimental treatments of psychiatric conditions, including depression, anxiety, and PTSD.
John Hamilton and PR news. Health officials in Utah are reporting new measles cases. There have been more than 140 cases found since early March. The outbreak is one of the most significant in the country, and Utah has seen more than 550 measles cases since the outbreak began in that state last June.
I'm Corvacolman, NPR News from Washington.
