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U.S. and Iran have agreed to a two week ceasefire.
“President Trump says he'll hold off on striking Iran as long as Iran agrees to”
the complete and immediate opening of the straight-up for moves to transport oil and PR's deep-a-shiver on reports. Trump said just hours ago that, quote, a whole civilization would die if Iran didn't reach a deal to reopen the straight by 8 p.m. Negotiations facilitated by Pakistan apparently moved forward after Pakistan asked Trump to
hold off on increased attacks for two weeks and asked Iran to reopen the straight. Trump says he received a 10-point proposal from Iran and says it's a workable base point for negotiations. He says the two-week pause will allow for the agreement to be finalized.
Trump has extended the deadline for Iran to reopen the straight before.
He's relenting this time because he says the U.S. has exceeded military objectives and that the agreement will lead to long-term peace in the region. Deep-a-shiver on and PR news the White House.
“It's not clear when the ceasefire will begin.”
There have been attacks across the Gulf region since it was announced. President Trump meanwhile is casting the ceasefire as a big day for world peace. And in a midnight post on social media, he said the U.S. will be helping build up traffic to the straighter for a move saying big money will be made and that the U.S. will be hanging around to make sure everything goes well.
crude oil prices dropped dramatically after President Trump announced that two-week ceasefire with Iran, Brent Cruz, the global benchmark, is now trading in the mid-90s after plunging it from around $110 a barrel. There's impures Camilla Dominozki reporting. The near closure of the straighter for a move has massively disrupted global oil trade.
The ever-present hope that the straight could reopen has made prices volatile, responding sharply to the headlines. What exactly happens next in the straight isn't clear.
“President Trump posted that the ceasefire was conditional on a "complete immediate and safe”
opening," while Iranian leaders said via state media that the U.S. quote has accepted Iran's control over the straight. The energy information administration estimates that full restoration of the world's oil flows will take months Camilla Dominozki and P.R. News. Republican Clay Fuller is heading to Capitol Hill, according to a race call by the Associated
Press. Fuller won Tuesday's special runoff election in Georgia for the House seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Green. The grassroots heart of Northwest Georgia was not going to allow the far-look left to take this congressional seat away from us.
Fuller is speaking to supporters. He is a former district attorney who had President Trump's endorsement Green resigned from Congress after a public split with Trump. And you're listening to NPR News. The Artemis two astronauts are on track to return to Earth later this week.
NASA official say the crew is back within the influence of Earth's gravity and on schedule to splash down in the Pacific off San Diego on Friday. On Tuesday, NASA arranged a ship to ship call between the Artemis capsule and the seven crew members of the International Space Station. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has acknowledged using spyware that can intercept encrypted
messages as part of its effort to disrupt fentanyl drug traffickers in P.R.S. to Joffee Block reports.
I says acting director Todd Lyons described for the first time his agency's use of spyware
and 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 ISIS 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 ISIS does not abuse spyware. Foreign governments have used graphite in the past to target journalists in activists and access their encrypted messages to Joffee Block and P.R. News. Grammy winner Ray Stevens is recovering at home after breaking his neck during a fall late last month.
The statement on social media confirmed that Stevens was briefly hospitalized but is now fully mobile and in good spirits. Stevens is 87 years old. His hits include the novelty song The Streak. About the 1970s craze for running naked in public.
He has an album due to be released on Friday. I'm Trials Snyder, MPR News.
