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The Pakistani Prime Minister is urging all parties to exercise restraint amid reports of
“violations of the ceasefire that the U.S.-Israel and Iran agreed to last night.”
As NPR's Deah Hadid reports from Mumbai, that deal didn't stop Israel from carrying out some of its heaviest bombings on Lebanon since the conflict began. Pakistani Prime Minister Shavasharif did not detail a specific ceasefire violation in his post on X, but there were reports of strikes in Iran and Gulf countries. And in Lebanon, the associated press reported that Israeli forces struck over 100 targets
in 10 minutes, killing dozens of people, including in downtown Beirut, with residents filming buildings exploding on a clear blue sky day. Israel and President Trump say the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon is not included in the ceasefire, but the country was included in the Pakistani Prime Minister's ceasefire announced but on Tuesday, talks are expected to be held in Islamabad on Friday.
Deah Hadid and Pianus, Mumbai. Iranians state media says Tehran's clothes the state of her moves again because of Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon.
“Israel says Lebanon was never part of the two-week ceasefire president Trump agreed to.”
Then a minority leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats will once again force a vote on war powers in order to put Republicans on the record in the U.S. Israeli war in Iran. Schumer says despite a fragile ceasefire, the war was a failure and that it's made geopolitical conditions worse for the U.S. and its allies. And he says the costs of the war to high.
Gas prices of skyrocketed in just a matter of days, they're not going to change into logist and in general the world oil markets will be unsettled for years, years from now. Schumer says they'll try for a vote when Congress returns. The White House says the U.S. has "exceeded its goals in the war." Stocks have surged oil prices dropped on word of the temporary ceasefire, and Pianus
Rafael Nam has more. Both U.S. crude futures and print, the global benchmark for oil, fell sharply while all three major stock indexes rallied.
“But this has been an unpredictable conflict.”
For investors, the critical aspect will be whether shifts finally start sailing through
the straight of her moves. But even if the straight is reopened, and a long-term ceasefire is achieved, investors are mindful that it will take some time for the global energy market to recover. And the effects in the global economy would likely linger. Gas prices in the U.S. for example are already pushing up inflation.
And they may not come down significantly anytime soon. Not until there's more certainty, Raphon Nam in Pianus. Just ahead of the close, the Dow was up 1,325, the Nasdaq of 617. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The new report finds artificial intelligence is reshaping the workplace, but not evenly.
And Pianus Winser-Johnston reports a gender gap as emerging in how AI is used and how it's judged. New data from leanin and nonprofit focused on women in the workplace show men are
slightly more likely to use AI at work, about 78-73 percent of women.
Serial Freedler, a computer science professor at Haverford College says how AI is used and judged can vary. Different types of work are going to be more or less appropriate to use AI to support or supplement parts of your job. With respect to gender, the gap goes beyond usage.
Women report less encouragement from managers, less recognition for using AI, and greater concern will be judged negatively or seen as cutting corners. Researchers warn those patterns could widen as AI becomes more embedded in the workplace. Winser-Johnston and Pianus Federal weather data shows March was the hottest month on record in 132 years for the continental U.S. The National Oceanic and atmospheric administration
says the average temperature last month was 50.85 degrees Fahrenheit, that's 9.35 degrees above the 20th century norm, and it beats the previous record set in March of 2012. I'll told more than 19,800 daily temperatures were broken and 2200 places, set monthly highs. This has climate change impacts the world and forecasters predict a brewing El Niño could
intensify global warmth. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR 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. Yeah, I read it in the Planet of Honeybook.
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