"Live from MPR News," I'm Jail Snyder.
The Israeli strikes in Lebanon are raising questions about the cease-fire deal between
the U.S. and Iran.
“Iran says it has again closed the straight-up for moves, and response to what are being”
called the heaviest strikes on Lebanon since a conflict with Iran-backed has beloved broke out last month. Iran says Lebanon was not included in the truth, the U.S. and Israel say it wasn't. It helps press secretary Caroline Levitt. Lebanon is not part of the cease-fire.
That has been related to all parties involved in the cease-fire, as you know, Prime Minister Netanyahu put out a statement last night in support of the cease-fire in support of the United States' efforts, and he's also a short-depresident. They'll continue to be a helpful partner throughout the course of the next two weeks. And a late night post on social media, President Trump said U.S. military ships and aircraft
were remained in place around Iran, and threatened that the U.S. will start shooting again unless Iran fully complies with the deal.
“Israel pounded Lebanon when, stay more than 250 people reported dead with more than 1100 wounded”
has blouse responding. The group has resumed rocket attacks on northern Israel, saying they will continue until Israel ceases it strikes on the country. Despite the cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran under strained Russia, welcoming the agreement from Moscow Charles Mayns reports.
Speaking to reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had always stressed
the need for diplomacy over conflict. The 11th hour cease-fire effectively hits pause on U.S. and Israeli attacks and exchange for Iran's promise to allow safe passage of ships through the Strait of Harmoos. Russia had been one of the few countries benefiting from the blockade, which spiked a man for and the price of Russian oil and gas at a moment when the economy was struggling under Western
sanctions. Yet Peskov said Moscow was satisfied with the short-term cease-fire deal and expressed hope the White House would soon resume its diplomatic efforts in Ukraine, where Russia is urging the U.S. to force concessions on Kiev. Charles Mayns and Piaon News Moscow
"The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics and Piaocelina Simmons-Duffin reports." 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 report's 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-Duffin and Piaon News. "This is NPR." California's Supreme Court has ordered the Republican Sheriff of Riverside County to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations while it reviews a legal challenge. The court came after California's Democratic Attorney General asked the court to step
in last month, a voting rights group is also involved in Sheriff Chab Bianco sees more than
half a million ballots last month in response to a complaint from a local citizen's group
about the ballot count for the November especially election on redistricting. Officials in Washington State have declared a statewide drought north-west public broadcasting Santa King reports. Snow Park is declining in the northwest. That's according to Casey Sixkiller, the director of Washington's Department of
Ecology, and its creating trouble for communities, farmers, and fish. Sixkiller says Snow Park droughts will only become more frequent in the future. "The world around us is changing much more rapidly than our infrastructure is prepared to
“handle, that are the way in which we've managed water historically can adapt to, and I think”
that is both the challenge and the opportunity that we have going forward." Sixkiller says, "Despite severe flooding in some areas over the winter, things are drying out across nearly every watershed in Washington. For NPR News, I'm Anna King." "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says last month was a hottest March
in 132 years of record keeping, and federal weather data show this past March was the most abnormally hot month of any month of the year," Noah says. the average temperature 90 degrees above the 20th century normal.
