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work closely with Iran to dig up and remove what he calls nuclear dust."
“Writing online last hour, Trump says his administration has determined Iran is gone”
through, quote, "what will be a very productive regime change." Trump also wrote this morning that any country that supplies weapons to Iran will be immediately subject to U.S. tariffs of 50%. The online postings today are different from yesterday. That's when Trump said Iranian civilization could be wiped out, if Tehran did not agree
to his demands. And P.O.'s Franco Ortonia says a ceasefire was reached last night. "Trump often uses kind of this belligerent language, and these latest threats were really quite breathtaking even for him.
But it's never really a bad thing to avoid the dire scenario that he was painting.
That by backing down, Trump does kind of risk damaging his credibility, you know, he's likely to face even more criticism now that he has a reputation of backing down from this most threatening rhetoric." And P.O.'s Franco Ortonia's reporting.
“Crude oil prices dropped dramatically after Trump announced the two weeks ceasefire.”
The global benchmark for oil, Brent Crude, is now trading in the mid-90s. It plunged from around $110 a barrel, and P.O.'s Kimili Domenoscape has more. The near closure of the straight-of-arms 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, quote, "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.
Kineela Domenoske and P.R. News. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanch says the Justice Department is officially launching
“its new "national fraud enforcement division."”
Blanch says the focus is on prosecuting fraud and taxpayer programs such as in healthcare and food benefits. And B.O.'s Jacqueline Diaz has more. Blanch says the Trump administration will not spare any resources in the Justice Department's effort to take down fraudsters.
The Acting Attorney General announced new details of the National fraud enforcement division during a press conference. During which he said the DOJ is looking to bring in 93 prosecutors in every district across the country to focus specifically on fraud cases. critics have said this new division is redundant to divisions at the DOJ that have done
this work for years. But Blanch says this effort will be comprehensive and will involve coordination across the whole government to take down government fraud and B.O.'s Jacqueline Diaz reporting. This is N.P.R. Republican Clay Fuller has won the special "Run-Off" election in a Georgia congressional
district. He defeated Democrat Sean Harris for the seat once held by Republican Marjorie Taylor Green. Fuller will finish out Green's term in office he'll have to run again this year to win a full-tier rather two-year term in office. A federal judge is rejecting an effort by the state of Louisiana to end access to abortion
medication through telemedicine. And B.O.'s Salinas Simmons-Duffin says that means access will remain in place for now. The state of Louisiana filed this lawsuit last October arguing that telemedicine access allows residents to get around the state's abortion ban. Federal Judge David C. Joseph, a Trump appointee, was sympathetic in his ruling to the state's
arguments. But he granted a request from the Food and Drug Administration to put the case on hold while the agency does a review of the safety of the medicine, Mithapristone. In the ruling he wrote, quote, "It is FDA, not this court that possesses the expertise to evaluate scientific evidence and make public health judgments."
The judge ordered FDA to report on its progress in six months. Mithapristone has been approved and available in the U.S. for more than 25 years. Salinas Simmons-Duffin and PR News Scientists are reviewing stunning images of the moon taken by the astronauts on the Artemis mission.
They snapped thousands of images including ones of the far side of the moon. Now they're preparing for their return to Earth. The astronauts are scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on Friday. This is NPR.
