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with Iran after President Trump claimed complete and total victory. Iran says it closed
“the state of Hormuz again today after Israel continued to attack the Hezbollah militant”
group in Lebanon, a conflict that has displaced more than a million people and killed
182 more today, according to local health officials. But White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says reports that the straightest closed are false, and Piers Marlias in reports." The war began with the President saying there would be no deal with Iran, except "unconditional surrender." Now the end of the war seems to be about keeping ships sailing
through the straight of Hormuz. The White House says Iran has agreed to open the straight and that there's been an uptick in both traffic through the straight. The White House also posted an official statement from the Iranian government that says "passage through the straight will be coordinated with the Iranian armed forces." Asked two was currently
“in control of the straight White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt didn't answer.”
Even if Iran is allowing some ships to pass through, if Iran keeps control of the straight, military experts say they would keep a lot of leverage over the global oil markets, and that would be a strategic defeat for the US. Marlias and NPR News, the White House." The Justice Department says that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House Committee investigating how the government handled its
investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, but she's not off the hook yet. A spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee says that the Department has signaled that Bondi won't appear on April 14. Since she is no longer a Attorney General and was subpoenaed in her capacity as Attorney General, but she says the Committee will contact Bondi's personal lawyer to see about scheduling her deposition. The ceasefire has crude oil prices trading lower, but
“as NPR's Scott Horsley reports it'll take a while for drivers to see any savings.”
crude oil prices drop sharp late-mon hopes the wartime bottleneck in the straight-of-horre moves might begin to unwind. There was no immediate relief at the gas pump, though. Triple A says the average price of gasoline continued to climb overnight to $4.16 a gallon. The energy department warns restoring normal flows of oil will take months, even after the straight reopens. Airlines are having to pay more for jet fuel than some are responding
with higher prices for check bags. Delta's raising its fees by $10 to $50 per bag, United and Jet Blue announced their own fee hikes last week. Scott Horsley, MPair News, Washington. A woman who pleaded guilty to selling friends star Matthew Perry, the ketamine that killed him in a 2023 overdose has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. 42-year-old jazz being Songa is the third defendant to be sentenced to five people who have pleaded guilty in connection
with the 54-year-old's death. US stocks closed higher today. The S&P 500 left two and a half percent. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than
half a million at 20-25 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations
while the judges review the legal challenge against it. The order came after California Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta asked the court to step in. ADHD has been linked to worse performance in school and lower attendance in higher education, but a new study finds that people who receive their diagnoses at a younger age tend to have better educational outcomes. NPR's Maria Cadoy reports. The new study is based on data from Finland, where researchers had access
to medical and educational information for some 580,000 people born between 1990 and 1999. Finland has universal health care and nearly all children are regularly screened for ADHD every few years beginning around age 4. The country's universal education system allowed researchers to see how kids who received an ADHD diagnosis fared in school over time. They found that people who got diagnosed with ADHD at an earlier age
had a better grade point average by age 16 and were less likely to drop out of school. The study appears in the journal "Jama Psychiatry." Maria Cadoy and Pira News. A man named Adam Jacobs, sometimes surreptitiously recorded more than 10,000 concerts from the 1980s through the early 2000s, a group of devoted volunteers in the US and Europe is methodically cataloging digitizing and uploading them one by one. The no-take left behind collection is
available online. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
This week on a first with President threatening to target Iran's civilian infrastructure such
as power plants and bridges, even as gas prices in the US continue to climb, what are the chances of an end of the war in Iran? Let's have our updates every morning on the latest overnight news on up first. Find us on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
