"Live from MPR news, I'm Giles Snyder, the ceasefire deal between the U.
to be on shaky ground," Iran says it has again closed the straight-of-war moves in response
“to Israeli attacks and Lebanon Wednesday, said to be the deadliest day of the war.”
Lebanon's health ministry says 182 people were killed but said that figure is not final. The White House's demanding the straight-be reopened here's impures Jackie Northham reporting. Despite being anchored since the start of the war more than a month ago, hundreds of ships were not eager to transit the straight-of-war moves. The big concern is safety. There were still regional attacks. It's uncertain if Iran has cleared mines in the water and a threat broadcast
to the ships from Iran itself. "If any has a try to travel, we don't permit them, we'll be destroyed out." The White House says the President is aware of reports that Iran
has closed the straight-of-war moves and disputes them. While also saying that would be completely
unacceptable. Jackie Northham and PR News. "Now to the U.S. Heartland where farmers are hoping to ceasefire, and Iran will hold, but MPR's current secular reports have many do not expect
“fuel or fertilizer prices to go down anytime soon."”
Farmers were already dealing with high equipment and fertilizer costs due to inflation and President Trump's latest trade war, and the war in Iran has driven up those costs even more, just in Sherlock, Gross, Corn, and soybeans. "We really need this to be resolved soon, and for the oil and energy markets to try and stabilize if we can." Sherlock is going into his fourth straight year in the red. The farmers here still holding on
or only surviving because land prices are so high and that's collateral to the banks. "We're literally betting the farm to try and keep going one more year right now." Farmers hope the war in geopolitics don't get in the way with ongoing trade negotiations with China traditionally North Dakota's largest buyer of soybeans. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Fargo. "The artificial intelligence company andthropics, mad with the Pentagon,
“has not stopped the company from moving ahead. It's out with a new AI model,”
and it's limiting the release to a select group of tech and cyber security companies." And PR Shannon Bond reports that anthropics says the model could power damaging cyber attacks. "Andthropics says it's new model known as Claude Mythos Preview is really good at identifying security flaws in software. It's so good," the company says. "It would be dangerous to roll it out to the general public because bad actors could use it to exploit those flaws."
Instead, anthropics giving access to a group of more than 40 companies, from Google and Apple to cyber security firm CrowdStrike. They'll use the model to shore up their defenses and patch holes. Andthropics says the model has already found thousands of vulnerabilities, including in every major operating system and web browser, some of which had gone undetected for years. Shannon Bond and PR News. "This is NPR."
"The California Supreme Court has ordered the Republican Sheriff of Riverside County to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations while it reviews a legal challenge. The order came after California's Democratic Attorney General asked the court to step in last month, a voting rights group is also involved. Sheriff Chad Bianco sees more than
half a million ballots last month in response to a complaint from a local citizen's group about
the ballot count from the November special election on redistricting." Delta Airlines expects to pay over $2 billion for fuel as a war in the Middle East continues to impact the global economy. From Member Station WAB, Marlon Hyde reports that the Atlanta-based carrier made the announcement as it reported its quarterly earnings Wednesday. Delta says the first major U.S. airline to report quarterly earnings since late February,
when the war and Iran began. The carrier says first quarter fuel costs soared by $332 million. CEO Ed Bastion says the company is moving quickly to recapture higher expenses, including reducing capacity in the current quarter. The war in the Middle East is driven an unprecedented spike in jet fuel with prices roughly double what they were earlier in the year. Delta announced Tuesday, it is raising checkback fees
as airlines also raise fairs to cover the spike in jet fuel costs. Bastion says it's still early to update the full year outlook, but some travel demand remains strong. Fran P. R. News on Marlon Hyde in Atlanta. "A financial markets in Asia are largely down and Thursday trading and oil prices have dunched back about $96 a barrel. I'm trial Snyder in PR News."
