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President Trump reached an 11th-hour cease-fire deal with Iran.
“It came less than two hours before he warned he would wipe out Iran's whole civilization.”
And Pierce Franco or Donu's reports, Trump says the two weeks will allow for a long-term agreement to be finalized." President posted on social media that he had agreed to a two-week cease-fire with Iran on the condition Iran agrees to reopen the state of our moves. Essentially backing down from his alarming threats.
President is meeting with NATO's Secretary General Mark Ruda, where the cease-fire is expected to be a big part of the discussions, Trump later posted that the cease-fire announcement marked a big day for world peace. And wrote that Iran can now start the rebuilding process, but that the U.S. military will be just hanging out to enforce the deal.
Franco or Donu's NPR News. Meanwhile Suzanne Maloney is a former state-department advisor and is now Vice President for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank. She has more on what's on the table for the upcoming talks that are expected to start on Friday.
“"If they can maintain the regime and maintain at least some ability to monetize control”
of the straight-of-war moves, as a means of trying to improve their economic condition, and they may be prepared to compromise on that. The other questions are about whether they will accept the U.S. demands to cease-awn Richmond, to impose limits on the missile program to end the support for its proxies in the region." Speaking there, too, NPR's morning edition.
The Justice Department says former Attorney General Pam Bondi, recently ousted from her job by President Trump, won't appear for a deposition over the Epstein files since she no longer works for the department. The Trump administration is acknowledging U.S. immigration's and custom enforcement used spyware to intercept encrypted messages as part of its efforts to disrupt trafficking
of fentanyl. NPR's due-joffee block reports last year, the administration revived the contract between ICE and Paragon Solutions, which created the spyware "tool-known" as graphite.
ICE's acting director Todd Lyons described for the first time his agency's use of spyware
“in a letter last week to Democratic House members.”
It was a response to questions the lawmakers had sent six months ago. Lyons said he "greenlit ICE's use of tools to address challenges posed by transnational criminal groups and fentanyl traffickers using encrypted communications. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say there are not sufficient regulations and transparency protocols to ensure ICE does not abuse spyware.
Foreign governments have used graphite in the past to target journalists and activists and access their encrypted messages. Due to joffee block and PR news, on Wall Street the dial was up 1,260 points to the NASDAQ up 650. This is NPR news.
The latest forecast for water in the Colorado River are showing a grim picture. The forecast say low snowpack across the Rocky Mountains will lead to a tense summer for water managers around the West. From Member Station KJ ZZ, Alex Hager has more. Incredibly low, seriously dry, depressing.
Those are just some of the words tossed around by scientists in the latest briefing on drought conditions. NL's B.Archee is a scientist with the Western water assessment. "There is possibility that we could experience the driest or historical low flows on record, the notion that a wet kind of April may june might save us as quickly leaving the building."
That shortage could send major reservoirs plummeting to record lows, adding pressure to already tense negotiations among states about sharing water. That includes Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming. If state leaders can't agree, the federal government could force major cutbacks that would likely trigger lawsuits.
For NPR news, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. "Delta Airlines is joining a growing list of U.S. carriers that are raising check-to-bag fees because of higher jet fuel costs.
According to today, Delta is raising bag fees to $45 for the first check bag and $55 for
the second for most passengers on domestic and short haul international routes. That's a $10 hike from pre-a-ron war prices because of disrupted oil supplies. And for the third bag, Delta says that one will cost you $200 a $50 increase. United and Jet Blue also raised fees last week. This is NPR News."
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