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Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and a statement from Iran's Supreme National
“Security Council says it will negotiate with the U.S. and Islamabad beginning Friday.”
Iran issued the statement after President Trump said he's pulling back on threats to attacks civilian infrastructure, less than two hours before his Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the straight-up or moves. He said he agreed to suspend bombing and attacking Iran for two weeks, and that this was subject to Iran agreeing to what he says was the complete immediate and safe opening
of the straight-up of her moves as that narrow waterway through which before this were 20% of the world's oil was flowing through. He called this a double-sided ceasefire, and he said that all military objectives had been met, but he cautioned that the two sides are still very far apart from any kind of definitive
agreement or a long-term peace.
"Following the announcement of that two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, oil prices are back below $100 a barrel, and overseas stock markets are advancing shares in Japan and South Korea are sharply up."
“Todd Blanch has officially taken over as acting attorney general after President Trump's”
Alster of Pan-Bondi last week, here's in Piers' Ryan Lucas reporting. "Acting attorney general, Todd Blanch says he has no idea why Pan-Bondi was pushed out, and at a news conference in response to a question about whether he wants the Attorney General job permanently," Blanch said this, "I did not ask for this job, I love working for President Trump.
That's the greatest honor of a lifetime."
He said it would be an honor if Trump asks him to stay on his acting attorney general,
and it would be an honor if Trump nominates him for the job full-time. "If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, thank you very much, I love you, sir." Blanch also denied that the Department has been weaponized to go after the President's perceived political enemies, despite several high-profile investigations of prominent Trump critics.
Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington, a federal judge has rejected an effort by the state
“of Louisiana to end access to an abortion medication through telemedicine nationally for now,”
and Piers-Lena Simmons-Duffin reports that means abortion access is staying the same. The state of Louisiana filed this lawsuit last October, arguing that telemedicine access allows residents to get around the state's abortion ban. Federal Judge David C. Joseph, a Trump appointee, was sympathetic in his ruling to the state's arguments.
But he granted a request from the Food and Drug Administration to put the case on hold while the agency does a review of the safety of the medicine, Mithapristone. In the ruling he wrote, quote, "It is FDA, not this court that possesses the expertise to evaluate scientific evidence and make public health judgments." The judge ordered FDA to report on its progress in six months.
Mithapristone has been approved and available in the U.S. for more than 25 years. Selina Simmons-Duffin and PR news. This is NPR News. Republican Clay Fuller is heading to Capitol Hill, according to a race call by the Associated Press.
Fuller won today's special runoff election in Georgia for the House seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Green resigned from Congress after a public split with President Trump Fuller's former district attorney who had Trump's endorsement. Democratic Democratic back candidate Chris Taylor is one election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Taylor's victory Tuesday is the fourth straightforward liberal court candidate stating back to 2020. Liberals will now have a five-to-two majority on the court. The latest forecast for water in the Colorado River show a grim picture. The forecast say low snow pack across the Rocky Mountains will lead to a tense summer for
water managers around the West from Member Station KJZZ, Alex Hager reports. Incredibly low, seriously dry, depressing. Those are just some of the words tossed around by scientists in the latest briefing on drought conditions. Nels B. Arkey is a scientist with the Western water assessment.
There is possibility that we could experience the dryest or historical low flows on record the notion that a wet, kind of April may juan my save us is quickly leaving the building. That shortage could send major reservoirs plummeting to record lows, adding pressure to already tense negotiations among states about sharing water. That includes Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
If state leaders can't agree, the federal government could force major cutbacks that would likely trigger lawsuits. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. And I'm Kyle Snyder, this is NPR News.
