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Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, the U.

President Trump says he will hold off on striking Iran, as long as Iran agrees to

the complete and immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz to transport oil in Piers

D. Pashivra on reports. In announcing this ceasefire, Trump also shared some other details of the negotiations, and he was sounded pretty optimistic, and his post on social media, he said that the U.S. received a ten-point proposal from Iran, and called that a "workable basis" on which to negotiate. And he said that almost all of the various points have passed contention have been agreed

to between the U.S. and Iran, and so that two-week period will allow for some of the agreements here to be finalized. Neither the U.S. nor Iran had said when the ceasefire would begin, since it was announced or have been attacks across the Gulf region and in Israel. The Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says it supports the ceasefire, but that the deal

does not cover fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon. State Department has confirmed the release of American journalist Shelley Kittelsin in a statement on social media. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is now working to support Kittelsin's safe departure from Iraq.

Kittelsin was abducted in Baghdad and late March by an Iran-backed militia. When her scientists have been pouring over the photos sent back by the Artemis-2 astronauts captured where the 175 gigabats of imagery, when they flew by the moon, they also recorded hours of audio as they described the colors, craters, and ridges they saw here as impures no green-peal boys.

Kelsey Young is a geologist who leads the science team for the Artemis-2 mission. She says several dozen scientists are in a room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. scrutinizing the thousands of images.

And there is something in every image that surprises me, right?

I mean, you might think that after looking at hundreds of images taken of the lunar surface, I would get sick of it. I have not. She says NASA will release a report on all of the lunar science findings within six months after the end of the mission.

The astronauts are expected to come home Friday with a splash down in the Pacific. Nell Greenfield, boys and PR needs. Now, to Southern California, where a warehouse in Ploje was arrested Tuesday and is facing arson charges, following a massive fire that destroyed the facility operated by the paper goods company Kimberly Clark, Ontario Police Corporal Emily Williams, as calls to dispatch

led to the arrest. We had multiple people calling into Ontario dispatch on tario fire with information.

We can't get into the specifics of the information, but the information that came in from

them led us to believe that it was suspicious in nature and led us to contact the suspect.

Authorities say the 29-year-old suspect was employed by a third party company at the warehouse

firefighter's spot to blaze for several hours early Tuesday. This is in PR. Britain has blocked Kanye West now known as yay from entering the UK after anti-Semitic commences made. The UK government said it had made the decision to block West from travelling 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 cancelled altogether.

British Prime Minister Kierstarmer said West should never have been invited to perform,

and that his government would not stop fighting the poison of anti-Semitism. That's Mark Usab, MP on news, London rise President J.D. Vance's due back in Washington, D.C. Wednesday following a trip to Hungary where he criticized the European Union saying the EU is interfering with Hungary's parliamentary election. Vance's visit to Budapest came ahead of Sunday's election in which he endorsed Prime Minister

Victor Orbond, breaking with norms of U.S. administration's not openly campaigning in foreign elections, Corbond has been in power for 16 years he is trailing in the polls. Following the announcement of that two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran oil prices are back below $100 a pair. I'm Jial Snyder, MPR News.

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