Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump says any country supplying military weapons to Iran will face a 50%
terror.
“This after Trump agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran as both countries tried to negotiate”
and end to the war. And here's Deepa Shiveram has more. Trump says many of the 15 points in the U.S. plan for Iran have been agreed to, including no enrichment of uranium in Iran. But Iran says otherwise and previously put forth its own 10-point proposal.
In his initial social media posts on the short-term ceasefire, Trump said Iran's plan is a workable basis on which to negotiate. In a post since then, he also writes that the U.S. and Iran will discuss sanctions and terror for leave. Pakistan helped facilitate the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and invited
both parties to Islamabad later this week to finalize negotiations.
It has press secretary Caroline Levitt said there are ongoing discussions about the talks, but nothing has been finalized. Deepa Shiveram and PR news. Farmers in the Heartland are hoping the ceasefire in Iran will hold and the state of
“Hormuz will open, but many also don't expect fuel or fertilizer prices to go down anytime”
soon. And here's Kirk Seigler has more from North Dakota. Farmers are 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 are still holding on or only surviving because land prices are so high
and that's collateral to the banks. We're at a point where 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 Seigler and PR news, Fargo.
“The Texas Board of Education is considering a new social studies curriculum for grades K through”
12 that led to protests outside the board meeting yesterday. Greta Diaz Gonzalez Vasquez with Member Station KUT has more. The changes to the curriculum are based on a new framework that emphasizes Texas and U.S. history and the emphasizes world history. Critics say it's Western and Christian approach limits students understanding of the world.
Adrian Reina, a public school teacher from San Antonio, says that curriculum is focused on Texas and American exceptionalism. Which denies our students and our community, the opportunity to learn of some of the things
that perhaps we're not our shining moments, but we're also critical to help us learn some
lessons about how to better deal with some of the problems that we face as a community or as a country. The Board is set to take a final vote in June. I'm Greta Diaz Gonzalez Vasquez in Austin. You're listening to NPR News in Washington.
In New York, Rex Hirman has pleaded guilty in the deaths of several women and dumping their bodies on Long Island's Gilgo Beach more than a decade after the discovery of human remains. The former architect changed his plea in court today admitting to killing the women over a 17-year period, he pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder and also admitted he unintentionally caused the death of an eighth woman, though as part of the plea deal, he's not being charged
with her murder. He's expected to get life in prison when he sentenced in June. As clinics that offer abortions close, including in blue states, some communities are coming up with alternatives. KFF Health News Kate Wells reports that includes one small town where medication abortions
are now being offered at urgent care centers. More than 30 clinics close last year, alone in states where abortion is still legal. Dr. Sean Brown owns Marquette Medical Urgent Care in Michigan's remote upper peninsula. And when the only plant-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 a 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. That's Kate Wells with KFF News. On Wall Street that I was up 1,245 points the NASDAQ up 677. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. You know, I heard this really interesting thing on an economic spotcast the other day.
Oh, well, that actually reminds me of something I read the other day in an economics book. I am proletist. Yeah, I read it in the Planet Money book. It's like a podcast, but more impressive when it sits on a shelf.
