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Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and says it will negotiate with the U.S. and
Islamabad, beginning Friday.
“Iran issued a statement after President Trump said he's pulling back on threats to attack”
civilian infrastructure. That came less than two hours before his Tuesday deadline for a two-run to reopen the straight-up removes. Earlier Tuesday, Trump warned that a whole civilization will die if his demands were not met, prompting more than three, doesn't congressional Democrats to call for him to
be removed from office, here's in Pierseric, McDaniel." Republicans control all the levers of power in Washington, but Democrats' objections do give a sense of scale to the alarm within their ranks, following President Trump's threat that a whole civilization would die if Iran didn't accede to his demands. Here's New Jersey Democratic Representative Rob Menendez calling for the president to be removed
from office immediately. A line has been crossed, and we cannot wait, or be silent, we must act now." Trump said he would suspend bombing Iran for two weeks, subject to Iran agreeing to open
“a key waterway as part of a ceasefire deal.”
Eric McDaniel and Pierseric Washington. "The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel supports the ceasefire, but that the deal does not cover fighting against Hezbollah and Lebanon. The Israeli military has issued a new evacuation order for southern Lebanon. In southern California, warehouse employee was arrested Tuesday facing arson charges following
a massive fire that destroyed the facility operated by the paper goods company Kimberly Clark. Ontario police corporal, Emily Williams, says 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.
"The authorities say the 29-year-old suspect was employed by a third-party company at the
warehouse firefighter's pod to blaze for several hours, early Tuesday. Artemis II's space graph still having plumbing problems.
“The toilet is working, but MPR's now Greenfield Bois reports that astronauts are having”
trouble in emptying the wastewater tank." Initially, the NASA team thought a vent out into space had gotten blocked by ice. The problem's persisted, even after they activated heaters and got the sun on that part of the spacecraft. Rick Henfling is an Artemis II flight director.
He says the latest theory is that a chemical reaction might be making some kind of debris that's clogging a filter. "Once we get the spacecraft back into the processing facility in Florida, we'll be able to get access to all the components and do a real detailed fault treat to identify the root cause."
The astronauts are set to return to Earth Friday, they do have less high-tech alternatives to the toilet they can use in the meantime. Nell Greenfield Bois and PR needs. "This is MPR. The State Department has confirmed the release of American journalist Shelley Kittelson in
a state-owned social media secretary of state Marco Rubio said the U.S. is working to support Kittelson's safe departure from Iraq. Kittelson was abducted in Baghdad in late March by in Iran back militia." In Texas, support of education is discussing a new social studies curriculum for K-12 students. Critics and educators gathered Tuesday outside the board meeting to protest from Immortation
K-U-T. Credit Diaz Gonzalez-Fascaz reports. 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 its Western and Christian approach limits students understanding of the world.
Adrian Reina, a public school teacher from San Antonio, says the 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 were not our shining moments, but were 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, then he curriculum would go into effect in 2030. I'm Greta Diaz Gonzalez-Fascaz in Austin. Grammy winner Ray Stephens recovering at home after breaking his neck during a fall late last
month of statement on social media confirms that Stephens was briefly hospitalized, but is now fully mobile and in good spirits, Stephens 87 years old, his hits include the novelty song "The Streak" about the 1970s craze from running naked in public. I'm Jail Snyder, MPR News.
