Live from NPR News and Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump says the U.
have agreed to a two-week cease fire that came after he warned yesterday, Iran's civilization
“could be wiped out if Tehran did not agree to his demands.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegs had said this morning the U.S. did strike Iranian targets yesterday. In last night's wave of more than 800 strikes, we finished completely destroying Iran's defense industrial base. A core pillar of our mission objective. But there are continuing reports of strikes in Iran and other Persian Gulf nations today. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country supports the
cease fire, but he says it does not include Lebanon, where Iran's proxying militia Hezbollah is based. Israel now says it is fired on more than 100 targets in Lebanon associated with Hezbollah, and Beers Jawad-Riz Khalid is in Beirut.
"People are moving so that the ambulance can pass by, ambulances are coming, and be
to the American University of Hospital in Beirut. Multiple strikes have wrung out all across Beirut." And Beers Jawad-Riz Khalid reporting.
“Oil prices are falling this morning, and Beers Maria Aspen reports, Dow futures are up more”
than 1,200 points. Investors have spent the war swinging between hope and fear, but with a temporary cease fire announced, hope is winning out. Oil prices plunged after President Trump said he had agreed to a two-week cease fire with Iran. Asian and European markets rallied, with Japan's Nikai gaining the most in almost a year.
And US stock futures surged ahead of the opening bell. Still, Wall Street is waiting to see how long the peace lasts, after more than a month of President Trump making threats, and then retreating. Some have had longer-term impacts. The war has damaged some refineries, and oil infrastructure in Middle East, and consumers
have been paying much higher gas prices. Maria Aspen and PR news. Republican Clay Fuller has won a special election run-off in Georgia. From Member Station W. A. B. E. Rahul Bolly reports, he will fill the seed of former Congress woman, Marjorie Taylor Green.
Clay Fuller thanked President Trump during his address to supporters. "And he has made sure that we are going to win. He made sure that he was the ultimate truck card." Fuller received 56% of the vote over Democrat Sean Harris, but in 2024, Trump carried the district with 68%.
While Tuesday's runoff involves about a third of the number of voters as November 2024, Democrats
“closing the gap could be a key factor for statewide races in Georgia this year, including”
an open governor seat and the reelection bid of John Ossoff, the only incumbent Democratic U.S. senator on the ballot in a state one by Trump for NPR News and Raul Bolly in Atlanta. "You're listening to NPR News from Washington." The British government has blocked American rapper Kanye West, known as Yay from entering that country. The government acted in response to heavy criticism that Yay has faced for
making anti-Semitic comments, is apologized and attributed them to bipolar disorder. It was supposed to appear at a music festival in London this summer, now the promoter of the festival called "Wireless," says the event, "is cancelled." The astronauts aboard the Artemis 2 mission of now left the Moon's sphere of influence, that's the part of space dominated by the Moon's gravity, as NPR's no Greenfield Boys
reports the crew is spoken with some fellow space travelers. NASA arranged a ship to ship call between the astronaut's capsule named integrity and the seven residents of the International Space Station. "In favor of you, this is the International Space Station, how are you here?" "Hey, International Space Station in Jessica, we have you loud and clear about us."
That was Artemis 2 commander, Reed Wiseman, speaking with NASA astronaut Jessica Meere on the Station, they chatted as the station orbited about 250 miles above Earth. The Artemis astronauts are on track to return Friday with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, now Greenfield Boys and PR news. "Southwest Airlines says starting April 20, passengers can only take one charger aboard.
They won't be allowed to stow it in the overhead bin. They won't be allowed to check it in luggage, southwest wants to limit the chance for lithium battery fires during flight." This is NPR.
