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U.S. Central Command says the U.S. Navy is beginning operations to clear minds in the straight of her moves. Two destroyers are involved. The U.S. says this is part of a broader mission to ensure the straight is fully cleared
of minds previously left by Iran's revolutionary guard.
Vice President Jady Vance is leading the delegation in Pakistan where talks are being held to stabilize the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and P.R.s. and Asha Mather reports." In terms of military capability, America has the clear upper hand. But Iran's control of the straight could be a sticky point of negotiations. "It has revealed this new source of leverage that the rest of the world didn't realize."
"That's Matthew Cranay. He worked on the Iran portfolio at the Pentagon during the Bush, Obama and First Trump Administration." While Trump is downplayed America's reliance on trade through the straight, Cranay says these negotiations will set a precedent.
“"It's essential for the Trump Administration to make sure that however this ends, it doesn't”
end with Iran in control of the straight." "He says the stakes are war or peace. A new shimather and PR News, the White House." Negotiations are expected next week on another phase of the war Israel's military operation against Lebanon. David Miller-Brand is a former British Foreign Secretary.
"In the situation in Lebanon, it is a new scale of catastrophe.
One in five people, forced from their homes, only 150,000 of the million-plus people displaced
in government shelters. So people sleeping on the floors of relatives, the floors of friends, a few thousand also intense in Beirut, it's an extraordinary city. You can drive past the Beirut Yacht Club, and outside the Beirut Yacht Club, there are people in tents who have been forced from their homes."
"It at least three people have died and the latest attacks by Israel on suspected has both a sights and Lebanon."
“The U.S. Court of International Trade heard arguments this week in a case, challenging”
President Trump's authority to impose sweeping new tariffs. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports the lawsuit was brought by two dozen states. "Add issue is President Trump's use of a 1974 trade law to justify the measures. The law allows temporary tariffs during a financial emergency tied to international trade and balances.
Iliya Soman is a law professor at George Mason University. He tells NPR the Constitution puts tariff authority, squarely, in the hands of Congress." "The President has no independent power in this area of his own. He only has such authority as Congress has given him, and here they have not given him the kind of vast sweeping authority he's claiming."
The outcome of the case could determine how far a President can go in reshaping trade policy without Congressional approval. Windsor Johnston and PR news, Washington. "And from Washington you're listening to NPR news."
“A federal judge Friday extended his block on a proposed 6.2 billion dollar giant between”
television giants next-arrant techno, while he decides of a longer review of the deal of his necessary attorneys general from eight states and satellite provider direct TV, sued to block the deal claiming it would harm local journalism and raise prices to consumers. The U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley extended his emergency restraining order until April the 17th.
Spring has sprung in Britain and with it some unsettling changes to the season, Vicky Barker reports from London.
First, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds fired a salvo at a tradition along
cherished by British gardeners. It has urged them to put away their bird feeders between May and October to fight a deadly parasite which spreads wherever birds crowd together. The bird feeders are a particular source of infection. And now, another seasonal tradition violated the posh and venerable Chelsea flower show
has relaxed its historic ban on garden-nomes. How could it not after soccer star David Beckham personally decorated a gnome for the garden he designed with King Charles. The gnome will then be auctioned off for charity. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London.
The University of Wisconsin plays Denver University later today for the NCAA Men's Frozen Four Icehockey Championship. Denver is seeking its third title in five years with Wisconsin won the title 20 years ago. I'm Dan Roman NPR News.
Support for NPR. This week on Sources and Methods a messy truce with Iran which remains in control of the straight-of-hormous. They feel emboldened. This war that started with a call to replace the regime.
Well, one humanae was replaced by another humanae. The road ahead in Iran. This week on Sources and Methods, the National Security Podcast from NPR.
