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This is the second day of the ceasefire between the U.S. Israel and Iran.
It is shaky." Over nine President Trump wrote online, the U.S. would keep its military in place in
“the Middle East until the truth is fully observed.”
The White House says Vice President Vance will lead a U.S. delegation to peace talks in Pakistan this weekend. Vance says one of the terms of the ceasefire is that Iran has to keep the straight of tormous open. "The deal is a ceasefire, a negotiation, that's what we give, and what they give is the
straights are going to be reopened. If we don't see that happening, the President is not going to abide by our terms if Iranians are not abiding by their terms." Yesterday, the White House claimed that shipping traffic was moving through the straight, but maritime trackers say that he's not true.
Only a trickle of ships have passed the vital waterway. Lebanon has declared a national day of mourning after Israeli attacks killed more than 250 people, according to the country's civil defense department. And Beer's law and frair reports from Beerut the violence has marred the ceasefire.
“"Keya's in central Beerut, where Israeli war planes struck without warning, including near”
the city's seaside Corniche, Promenade.
The capital has absorbed many of the more than a million people displaced by Israeli
attacks farther south, including Rana Dimash, whose six weeks ago fled Beerut's southern suburbs, where his bola has offices. She stayed up all night in the vacant building where her family has been sheltering and rejoiced at news of a ceasefire." "Yes, we thought that we would let go home, but then that bomb's appeared."
She says the building's shook with explosions nearby. Israel says it struck a hundred has bola targets in just 10 minutes. The international committee of the Red Cross says it's outraged by such attacks on densely populated urban areas. Foreign fire and PR news, Beerut.
Jerusalem's religious sites have reopened to worshipers after the ceasefire was declared. Israeli police had restricted prayer gatherings in Jerusalem's old city during the war as
“debris from Iranian missile-fired landed nearby.”
And Beerut's Daniel Estrin has more. After more than 40 days and 40 nights of war. The church of the Holy Sepulchur, the traditional site of Jesus' tomb, is open again for prayer gatherings. But the church lives streamed a processional with clergy in maroon and gold vestments
for Orthodox Christian Holy Week. Israel had sparked controversy and apologised during the war for banning the Vatican's top representative in Jerusalem from entering the church on Palm's Sunday.
At the Al-Oxamask this morning, about 3,000 Muslim worshipers gathered for the first
time since the ceasefire, according to the Palestinian Authority which released this footage. And there was unrestricted prayer at the Western Wall, the Jewish Holy site. Daniel Estrin and PR News, Tel Aviv. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
The chair of the House over-site committee says next week's deposition of former U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has been postponed. She is supposed to answer questions about the Justice Department's files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Yet he chair James Comer says they will work out a new date with Bondi's personal
attorney. The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, according to a report published today by the National Center for Help Statistics. And beer Salinas Simmons' Duffin 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 mother's 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. Salinasman's Duffin and beer news.
NASA says the crew aboard the Artemis Lunar Mission is preparing to return to Earth. The four member crew is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego tomorrow around 5pm Eastern rather Pacific time. The crew has been on a 10-day mission. 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 U.S. continue to climb, one of the chances of an end to the war in Iran. This is for updates every morning on the latest overnight news on up first, find us on the MPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
