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As a fragile two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran continues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is now instructing his cabinet to open direct negotiations with Israel as soon as possible.
“The negotiations will focus on disarming his balah and arranging peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon.”
That's as Iran restricted the straight of Hormuz after saying that Israel was bombing Lebanon and that was in violation of the two-week ceasefire, which both Netanyahu and President Trump dispute.
As President Trump threatens to leave NATO over, their refusal to engage in a war they said they had no say in, NATO Secretary General Mark Rudas says some allies were slow but... If fairness, there were also a bit surprised. To maintain the elemental surprise with initial strikes, President Trump opted not to inform allies ahead of time, and I understand it. Speaking of the Reagan building in DC today, meanwhile, he and Trump met at the White House yesterday, and here's Franco or Donus has more. President Trump has raged against the alliance for declining to take part in his attack on Iran, or helping secure the straight of our moves.
Arguing that they failed his tests to see if they truly backed the U.S. after the meeting, Trump exclaimed on social media that "NATO wasn't there when we needed them, and they won't be there if we need them again."
But he did not say he was pulling the U.S. out of the alliance.
Trump has long had a rocky relationship with NATO, but this war has really racked what foundation was left, and Trump's anger only intensified calling NATO a paper tiger and attacking some leaders by name. Such as British Prime Minister, Kier Starmer, saying he's no Winston Churchill, Franco, or Donus, and Pianis. Some of the biggest names in the mega-universe are clashing with President Trump over the war against Iran, and that's raising questions about deeper devise within the President's base. And here's Elena Moore reports the most striking examples came from Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly.
It's complicated. I mean, in their latest episodes, Carlson and Kelly were hearing them, you know, largely turned their criticism now back to the war itself,
and U.S. relations with Israel, episode since the ceasefire was announced.
“But their comments from before the ceasefire was announced still do feel important when you just think about how big their audiences and how strong their comments were.”
And here's Elena Moore, artificial intelligence company on Thropic has a new AI model, but it's limiting its release and Pearson and Bond explains. Anthropics says its new model, known as Claude Mythos Preview, is really good at identifying security flaws in software. It's so good the company says it would be dangerous to roll it out to the general public, because bad actors could use it to exploit those flaws. Instead, Anthropics giving access to a group of more than 40 companies, from Google and Apple to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Anthropics says the model has already found thousands of vulnerabilities. And Pearson and Bond, this is NPR. The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025. That's according to a report published today by the National Center for Health Statistics. And Pearson Selina Simmons stuff and reports the teen birth rate continues to hit record lows every year. According to the analysis of provisional birth certificate data, nearly 126,000 babies were born to mothers aged 15 to 19 last year.
The birth rate for that group declined 7% from the year before. The reports lead author Brady Hamilton calls that drop extraordinary. He's a statistician demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics. These rates for the teens have dropped to historic levels. And in fact, they've gone to historic levels year after year after year.
Last year, the teen birth rate was 11.7 births per 1,000 female teens. That's down from a rate of 61.8 in the early 90s. Selina Simmons stuff in NPR news. The most prestigious event in golf is underway in Augusta, Georgia today. The 90th edition of the Masters.
The world's top men's golfer Scotty Shefflers is playing. Sheffler, rather, is playing along with the vending champ Roy McElroy.
“Who will try to become only the fourth player to win back to back masters?”
The last to do it was Tiger Woods in 2002. But Tiger is not taking part in this tournament after his DUI arrest last month. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
