Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, Iran and the U.
on social media.
“That's after President Trump used profanity to threaten more of Iran's infrastructure.”
Trump said a deadline of tomorrow night if Iran doesn't open the state of Hormuz.
And beer's deep parvaz is monitoring the response out of Iran. Iran is hitting back after President Trump posted an expletive-laden message on social media ordering Iran to reopen the state of Hormuz. If they don't comply, he vowed to destroy more of Iran's bridges and power plants. The official ex-account for Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations responded that
Trump, quote, "seeks to drag the region into an endless war." It added that it's threat to target civilian infrastructure, showed an intense-to-commit a war crime, and urged immediate international intervention. Mehdi Tablet-Haboye, deputy for communications and information in Iranian President Masud-Pezish Jan's office, posted on ex-the President Trump had "resorted to obscenities and nonsense
out of sheer desperation and anger." He went on to use similarly insulting language, saying that the street would open when Iran had been compensated for the cost of this war. Deepavaz and PR news, Vaughan Turkey.
“President Trump also says he'll hold a news conference early this afternoon in the oval”
office, quote, "with the military." This announcement came after he wrote online yesterday about the rescue of a missing U.S. airman in Iran. The airman and a pilot were shot down over Iran last week.
The pilot was quickly found, but the second airman was not located for almost two days.
This came after Trump faced more criticism about the war in Iran. Pennsylvania Democratic Congresswoman Madeline Dean says Trump did not understand the threat to the world before he launched the attack. "We are at a war of his choosing with no notion of why he went in. He's given six or seven explanations and obviously no plan to leave this war."
She spoke to NPR's weekend, all things considered. There is little time left to register to vote in this year's primary elections in a couple of states. NPR's hansy low-wong reports, some states in the Midwest and South are getting ready to hold their primaries in May.
Ells were voters in Indiana and Ohio who went to cast ballots in the May primaries, having until the end of Monday to register, and there's still at least a week left to register in time for the primaries in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, and West Virginia. If you're planning to register to vote by mail, you may want to avoid waiting until the last minute to send your application by a postmark deadline.
Changes at the US Postal Service mean that your mail may not get a postmark on the same day you drop it off.
“USBS says if you want to make sure it gets a postmark, stop by a post office and ask for”
one. And if you've already registered to vote, you may want to check your status before your state's deadline. Ells were voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move things their name were haven't voted in a while.
On Zilong and Khar News. On Wall Street in pre-market trading, down futures are higher. This is NPR. The Artemis crew will start its fly by of the moon later today. The astronauts will fly around the dark side of the moon.
They'll take photos that satellites have not yet been able to see. The astronauts will also be out of contact with Earth for about an hour when they're behind the moon. The Union representing screen and television writers announced a tentative deal with Hollywood Studios over the weekend, and Piers Netto Ulubi has more.
The last time the writer's Guild of America negotiated with Hollywood Studios in 2023, it went on a strike that lasted for months. This time, the Union posted an announcement on his website saying it had reached a tentative agreement after just a few weeks of negotiations, and weeks before the current contract expires.
The Angels have yet to be revealed, but they are expected to include health benefit protections and new rules about the use of artificial intelligence. The announcement comes as the writer's Guild of America West can tense with its own internal strike by dozens of its own workers, who alleged issues with unparallelable practices and union-busting activities.
Netto Ulubi? NPR News. Workers at one of the biggest meat-packing plants in the U.S. are suspending their three-week strike in Colorado, north of Denver. Thousands of unionized workers say plant owner JBS USA has agreed to resume contract talks.
UCLA has won its first national championship in women's college basketball, the Bruins
Shalak to South Carolina yesterday, 79-51. Tonight is the men's NCAA title game, Michigan, will face UConn. I'm Corvaculman, NPR News, in Washington.
