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President Trump says the U.S. will suspend bombing Iran for two weeks as long as Iran
reopens the straight of Hormuz.
“The statement comes after Trump pledged that a whole civilization will die tonight never”
to be brought back again if a deal wasn't reached by eight o'clock eastern tonight. Now Trump is posted on social media that he will, that this will be a double-sided ceasefire that the U.S. received a 10-point peace proposal from Iran, which he said was "workable." Some Iranians formed human chains around power plants and across bridges today as NPR's Ayah Betrayal reports.
This is a regime that will fight for its survival. Iran's President, Mesod Pazeskin, posted on ex today that Iranians are volunteering to fight in large numbers. He says millions are ready to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran himself included. And Iran is threatening that if its electricity stations are bombed, it will hit power
plants and Gulf Arab states and Israel. There's still around the clock mediation efforts led by Pakistan for Iran to try to open the straight for two weeks in exchange for Trump extending this deadline by two weeks.
“NPR's Ayah Betrayal reporting, "The Justice Department's new leader says, "Nobody except”
President Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as Attorney General last week," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made the comment when asked at an unreleased news conference of Bondi lost her job because she was not successful in bringing criminal cases against Trump's perceived adversaries. Blanche said he didn't feel pressure in the job despite Trump's oft-stated desire
for retribution. Though he said that the president was entitled to seek investigations against former government officials, he believes he has wronged him. Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman wants to buy universal music group, the record label behind Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift and PR's Maria Aspen reports on Ackman's latest attempt
to become a music mogul, Universal's the world's largest record label, and Ackman has wanted a piece of it for years. Bill Ackman's perishing square hedge fund first invested in universal back in 2021, and he sat on its board until last year. Now he wants to own the whole thing.
“Pershing has offered to pay universal shareholders a mix of cash and stock in a deal valued”
at more than $60 billion.
Ackman is what's known as an activist investor, meaning he pushes for change. He's long-wanted universal to move its financial esteem to New York from Amsterdam, and his new proposal would do just that. But the deal is far from done. Ackman will have to convince two-thirds of Universal's other investors to agree to sell
him the company. Maria Aspen and PR news. Delta Airlines is joining a growing list of carriers raising checked bag fees. This higher fuel costs ripple through the airline industry, United Airlines and JetBlue also raised fees this week.
JetFuel's refined from crude oil and typically ranks as the second largest expense for airlines after a labor. This is NPR News. New research shows that financial gains for many black-led nonprofits after George Floyd's murder were short-lived, according to a study by Candid and ABFE, only a subset of large
black-led non-profits saw temporary funding increases. New funders tended to finance black-led nonprofits only for one year, instead of sustaining great-grand recipients' longer-term goals. CBS is announced that the late show with Stephen Colbert will be replaced with Byron Allen's comics unleashed.
As NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports, Allen is a media titan who began his career as a stand-up. Byron Allen made his TV stand-up debut on the tonight show starring Johnny Carson in 1979. It was still in high school.
And history, and that's where you get all the obscure questions, is like, "What's the first
name of Alexander Graham Bell's wife?" Who knows, right? Put Tinker. Today, his Allen Media Group produces and syndicates all kinds of entertainment and owns the Weather Channel.
Allen's comics unleashed currently airs after the late show with Stephen Colbert. On May 22nd, it will move to Colbert's 1135 pm time slot, Elizabeth Blair and PR News. American Airlines Flight was delayed in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a swarm of bees tried to hit your ride to San Francisco on one of the plane's turbines. According to W.S.O.C. TV, the beast swarm was recorded by a passenger who said the flight
was delayed by about an hour as someone removed the bees from the turbine. After wide swings, U.S. stocks closed largely flat today. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
