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Pakistan's Prime Minister is calling on the U.S. and Iran to accept a two-week cease-fire
“to give negotiations a chance the rest request came hours before President Trump's latest”
deadline for Iran to heed to his demands, and Piers and D.A.H.A.D. reports. Pakistani Prime Minister Shabbah Sharif made the plea on ex after President Trump threatened that quote, "a whole civilisation will die if Iran did not accept a deal that includes re-opening the Strait of Hermos by 8 p.m. East and time." Trump has repeatedly imposed deadlines like this only to extend them, but he insists this
one is final.
In his post, the Pakistani Prime Minister asks Trump to delay his deadline by two weeks and asks
Iran to open the Strait of Hermos for a corresponding period. He says diplomatic efforts to end the war are progressing and urges both sides to quote
“"allow diplomacy to run its course," D.A.A.A.A.D. and Piyon News, one by.”
Tom Blanch has officially taken over as acting Attorney General after President Trump's ouster of Pam Bondi last week, and Piers Ryan Lucas reports. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch says he has no idea why Pam 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, it's a 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 of 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.
“The Artemis-2 astronauts have left the lunar sphere of influence, the region of space dominated by the moon's gravity, as NPR's NL Greenfield Boys reports the crew spoke with some fellow space travelers today.”
NASA arranged a ship to ship call between the astronaut's capsule named integrity, and the seven residents of the International Space Station. "And integrity, this is the International Space Station, how are you here?" "Hey, International Space Station, in Jessica, we have you loud and clear how about us." That was Artemis-2 commander Reed Wiseman speaking with NASA astronaut Jessica Meer on the station. They chatted as the station orbited about 250 miles above Earth.
The Artemis astronauts are on track to return Friday with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NL Greenfield Boys and PR news. "Use car prices are spiking again, according to Cox Automotive, the average wholesale cost of a used car was more than $20,000 in March. That's up from under $13,000 in April 2020, the still less than the high of $25,000 set in 2022. It's NPR." Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky is proposing a pause in attacks on energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter this weekend.
Zelensky expressed a doubt that Russia would accept the offer. U.S.-led peace talks have made no progress as attention is focused on Iran. Britain has blocked Kanye West, now known as "Yay" from entering the UK after anti-Semitic currencies made, and PR's Fatima Al-Kasab reports this follows controversy over his scheduled appearance at a music festival in London this summer.
"The UK government said it had made the decision to block West from traveling to the UK. On the grounds his presence in the UK would quote, "not be conducive to the public good." The rapper has made several anti-Semitic remarks in recent years, last year selling swastika t-shirts on his website. He has since apologized for the comments, attributing them to his bipolar disorder, but his scheduled appearance as the headline act of London's wireless festival prompted widespread outrage.
The festival, scheduled for July, has now been canceled altogether. British Prime Minister
Kierstheimer said West should never have been invited to perform, and that his government
would not stop fighting the poison of anti-Semitism, Fatima Al-Kasab MPR News London. "A judge has dismissed Peter's lawsuit over the health of French bulldogs and some other popular dog breeds. The animal rights groups sued against the American kennel club of promulgating unhealthy standards for French's bulldogs, Chinese sharpies, doxens, and pugs. The club rejected the claims and said it prioritizes K9 health. You're listening to NPR News from
Washington."
