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President Trump says the U.S. will work with Iran to remove what he calls nuclear
dust. His online comments this morning come after he announced a ceasefire last night with Iran. Pentagon chief Pete Hugsett says the U.S. military scored a decisive military victory over Iran in more than five weeks of fighting.
“However, he did not say how several key issues would be settled, including the reopening”
of the Strait of Hormuz. Here's NPR's Greg Myri. Defense Secretary Hugsett, speaking at a Pentagon news conference, said the U.S. achieved all its military objectives. "Less than six weeks, clear mission, decisive action, overwhelming firepower."
Hugsett was asked what the military would do during the two weeks ceasefire now in place. "We'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere. We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire." But several key issues will have to be negotiated, such as the Strait of Hormuz, which
Iran still controls. And the fate of Iran's nuclear program, which still includes highly enriched uranium. Greg Myri, MPR News, Washington. Retired General Joseph Votel led U.S. Central Command and oversaw U.S. operations in the mid-East from 2016 to 2019.
He says despite the ceasefire, Iran is still taking some military action. "They're not completely gone, as we've seen. They've continued to be able to launch missiles and drones, and of course they're exerting influence in the Strait of Hormuz. So there's still work to do with this.
“But certainly, I think there's been a diminishment of the military capacity of that supports”
the regime." He spoke to NPR's morning edition. Israel says it is observing the two-week truth, but says the ceasefire does not apply to Lebanon. The base of Iran's proxie militia has below these really military says it's now carried
out more than 100 strikes across Lebanon. Lebanese officials say some of these strikes have been intensely populated civilian areas. Stocks jump sharply this morning as investors cheered the two-week ceasefire. NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average sword well over 1,200 points in early trading.
Crew to all prices drop sharply upon hopes the wartime bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz might begin to unwind. There was no immediate relief at the gas pump though, AAA says the average price of gasoline continued to climb overnight to $4.16 a gallon.
“The energy department warns restoring normal flows of oil will take months, even after”
the Strait reopens. Airlines are having to pay more for jet fuel than some are responding with higher prices for check bags. Delta's raising its fees by $10 to $50 per bag, United in Jet Blue announced their own fee hikes last week.
The maker of John Deer tractors is agreed to pay $99 million to settle a lawsuit brought
by customers who say Deer made it hard to repair their own equipment. Scott Horsley, in Pianu, is Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal officials say agents from immigration and customs enforcement shot a man in central California yesterday.
Officials say he is an alleged gang member wanted in El Salvador for questioning in connection with a murder. He was shot after he tried to run over a federal agent he was wounded and taken to a hospital. As clinics that offer abortions close, including in blue states, some communities are coming up with alternatives.
KFF Health News's Kate Wells reports that includes one small town where medication abortions are now being offered at an urgent care center. More than 30 clinics close last year, alone in states where abortion is still legal. Dr. Sean Brown owns market medical urgent care in Michigan's remote upper peninsula and when the only planned parenthood clinic in that region closed last spring, Brown started offering
medication abortion to try to fill that gap. She says doing this in an urgent care has actually reduced stigma for patients. Because they're not going to like some isolated clinic where somebody's yelling at them on their way in, it's, you know, you're sitting in the lobby with somebody with an ankle sprain in a cold and just going about your day.
The urgent care in Michigan has gotten funding from a national emergency medicine group to train other similar sites to offer medication abortion too. No, that's Kate Wells with our partner, KFF Health News. The National Weather Service says there's a flood watch today for most of Hawaii's islands.
There could be excessive rainfall.
This warning comes after Hawaii got soaked by powerful back-to-back storms that triggered
more flooding in March. I'm Core of a Coleman and PR News.
