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to Iran. He's demanding Iran reopen the straight-up for moves to international oil
“shipping by 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Otherwise, the U.S. will start bombing Iranian power plants”
and bridges. Under international law, bombing these civilian sites could be considered war crimes. NPR's Deepa Shiveram reports.
On social media, Trump posted, quote, "a whole civilization will die tonight, never
to be brought back again," adding that he doesn't want that to happen, but it "probably will." Trump's message on the war against Iran has been mixed since the start. He previously described U.S. actions in Iran as an attempt to help Iranians from a repressive government. Third party countries, led by Pakistan, continue to try to further negotiations between Iran and the United States, but no agreement has been reached. Trump said in a press conference
that any deal on the table needed to include the reopening of the straight-up for moves
“to ensure the passage of oil. Deepa Shiveram and PR News”
"The U.S. drug military targets on Carg Island, early this morning. A U.S. official not authorized to speed publicly told NPR, "They were race strikes on targets the U.S. had hit before, not oil infrastructure." President Trump has threatened to seize control of the island, which is the center of Iran's oil industry. The war is affecting countries throughout the region. Majad El Ansari is the spokesman for the foreign ministry of
cut-cutter. He said today the war will only further drive up prices for people, and it threatens international peace and security. There are no winners in the continuation of this war. There are only losers. The net to fluzags is expanding every day as a result of the ramifications of the economic situation. But we are working with all our partners in the region and beyond
“to make sure that any window of opportunity is utilized. He says if the war continues, food shortages”
are likely to become more widespread. The benchmark price of crude oil in the U.S. has climbed to its highest level in nearly four years. NPR Scott Horusley reports on the economic fallout from the U.S. war with Iran. That disruption of energy supplies caused by the U.S. war with Iran has pushed domestic crude oil prices to their highest level since 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Gasoline prices rose another two cents overnight. Triple A's is the
average price of the pump is now $4.14 a gallon. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods fell 1.4% in the month leading up to the war. That was largely due to a sharp drop in orders for jet airplanes. Not counting transportation products, durable goods orders were up in February.
An activist investor Bill Akman wants to buy universal music group, Akman's offering $64 billion
for the label, which is home to act including Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny. Scott Horusley and PR News Washington. This is NPR News. A special runoff election is underway in Georgia. Voters are deciding who will finish the remaining term of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. The Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the physical world. A new role over require public institutions do the same for the digital world. NPR's Junaki Meta reports.
Miranda Lisey and Harold Rogers have been friends since undergrad, where, as blind students, they had a positive experience with their education. They went to grad school with that same expectation. But instead, faced major challenges getting learning materials that worked with their assistive technology. We already fight to be in the room every day of our lives. And then we go into a graduate program where we have to fight five times as hard as just unacceptable.
The ADA has always required web accessibility. It just lacked specific technical standards,
which made it hard to hold institutions responsible. But that's about to change. On April 24, large public institutions, including universities, will be required by regulation in the ADA to create digital materials excessively from the get-go. Junaki Meta and Bier News. The Artemis 2 is heading home after flying around the moon. The four astronauts set a record yesterday, flying the furthest from the earth, breaking the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970.
They saw a views of the far side of the moon, never seen by the naked eye before. The nearly ten-day test flight is to end Friday with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA plans to put astronauts on the moon in two years. I'm Noraram. NPR News in Washington.
