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President Trump says the U.S. and Israel will suspend bombing Iran for two weeks as
“long as Iran reopens the straight of Hormuz.”
Though Israel says it detected another wave of Iranian missiles following Trump's announcement, and missile alerts were also activated in the United Arab Emirates. Trump posted on social media that this would be a double-sided ceasefire and that the U.S. received a 10-point peace proposal from Iran, which he said was "workable." The statement comes after Trump pledged to destroy Iran's civilization if a deal wasn't
reached tonight. Iran says it will reopen the straight of Hormuz with, quote, "do consideration to technical limitations," as NPR's Abetralli explains. So that leaves open the possibility that we will see more ships going through the straight. But now it's clear that the straight is under Iran's control.
The comments on technical limitations suggest to me the number may not be at the level of ships per day that we're transiting freely before this war began, and also we heard from Iran's Supreme National Security Council that the government would negotiate with
“the U.S. this Friday in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and like Trump, they too said”
this doesn't mean an end to the war, and they noted that they're entering these talks with complete distress. NPR's Abetralli reporting, meanwhile Pakistan's Prime Minister who helped broker the ceasefire wrote online that it also includes Lebanon, where Israel has killed more than 1400 people,
as it battled with Iran-backed Hezbollah, more than a million people have been displaced
during the conflict. U.S. journalist Shelley Kittleson has been released after being kidnapped in Baghdad last week. The powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia said in a statement earlier, in the day that it had decided to free the journalist, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the release shows
the administration's steadfast commitment to the safety and security of American citizens no matter where they are in the world. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the Justice Department is officially launching
“its national fraud enforcement division.”
He says the focus is on prosecuting fraud and taxpayer programs like health care and food benefits. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more. Blanche says the Trump administration will not spare any resources in the Justice Department's effort to take down fraudsters.
The Acting Attorney General announced new details of the national fraud enforcement division during a press conference. During which he said the DOJ is looking to bring in 93 prosecutors in every district across the country to focus specifically on fraud cases. Critics have said this new division is redundant to divisions at the DOJ that have done
this work for years. But Blanche says this effort will be comprehensive and will involve coordination across the whole government to take down government fraud. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News Oil prices plunged tonight and U.S. stock futures jumped after Trump pulled back on his threats against Iran for two weeks.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Republican District Attorney Clay Fuller has won a runoff election for a Georgia congressional district to replace former Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, that's according to a race call from the Associated Press. He defeated Democratic candidate Sean Harris by about 12 percentage points.
Environmentalists and the Mekasuki tribe argued that in federal appeals court today that the immigrant detention facility in Florida's Everglades must wind down to preserve the environment in the tribe. From member station WLRN Joshua Sebayos reports. The Mekasuki tribe of Indians says the facility dubbed alligator Alcatraz is interfering
with its people's daily lives. Betty Oceola is an activist and member of the Mekasuki. We can't even go down that road anymore to do what we do on a cultural aspect to honor our loved ones that have transitioned on. We're being put in a situation to have to look elsewhere to do that.
Her tribe and local environmentalists are suing Florida and the federal government to close the detention center because of its cultural and environmental impact. That issue is whether or not operations that alligator Alcatraz should be halted while their lawsuit is ongoing. It's unknown when the court will hand down a decision.
For NPR News, I'm Joshua Sebayos and Miami. The Artemis II astronauts made an interstellar call with the International Space Station.
It's the first such moonship to spaceship radio link up ever for Artemis II's Christina
Cook and the station's Jessica Meer. It was a reunion the two teamed up for the world's first all female spacewalk in 2019. This is NPR News.
