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President Trump is threatening to block ships in and out of the state of Hormuz, this follows
“the collapse of peace talks in Pakistan this weekend.”
In response, Iran says it won't surrender to threats. U.S. officials say the blockade starts early Monday evening. And Pira's D.E. provost has more from Von Turkey. Speaking to Iranian state media, Iran's parliamentary speaker Mohammad Borghali Bof, who participated in the negotiations said, such threats have no effect on the Iranian nation.
And Iran's Navy commander, Ami Yirani, said that they are closely marching in U.S. movements in the region, and he also called President Trump's threats, quote, very ridiculous and funny. In addition to the naval blockade, President Trump on Sunday said that the U.S. would begin destroying mines laid by Iranians in the state of Hormuz, and added that Iranians would
be, quote, "blown to hell if they fired at the U.S. Over the past two weeks, President Trump has threatened to destroy Iran's infrastructure, bomb the country, quote, "back to the Stone Age," and to wipe out its entire civilization in one night. D.Pyrbaz and Pira News Vaughn Turkey.
“The managing director of the International Monetary Fund said today that the Iran war is”
causing major economic pain for the global economy, and crystalline and Georgieva says that everyone feels the pinch of prices going up. And it is asymmetric, it affects different countries differently. If you are in the vicinity of the conflict, it's a big hit on you. If you are an oil importer, it is a big hit on you.
If you have no reserves to protect yourself during the very tough situation. Georgieva was speaking on CBS's face the nation. Democratic representatives, Eric Swall, will announce this evening that he is suspending his campaign for California governor. He made the announcement, the post on social media, Swall was recently accused of sexual
assault against several former staff members. National political figures are campaigning in Virginia on a redistricting proposal, and a VPM News's Jad Khalil has her reports. Virginians are voting on a measure that could result in a four-seat gain in Virginia's congressional delegation for Democrats.
That could make House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker of the House. Here he is outside of Richmond, Sunday.
“April 21st, are you ready to stop the mega-power graph?”
Are you ready to take back our country in November? And here's House Speaker Mike Johnson in the Shannon Doe of Alley the Day before. 250 years ago, Virginians put in place the foundations for the most extraordinary experiment in self-governance in human history. Virginia once again has the responsibility and the privilege to defend that great nation.
Virginia could be one of the last states to act in the national redistricting frenzy kicked off by Trump. For NPR News, I'm Jad Khalil in Henrico, Virginia. It's NPR News. Votes and Hungary turned out in numbers not seen since the fall of communism Sunday and resound
the rejected a re-election bid by long-serving Prime Minister Victor O'Bahn. During his 16 years in office, O'Bahn often challenged the governance of the European Union. He vetoed many actions, including some funding for Ukraine's war effort in coming a Prime Minister, a pater, Majar says he will repair hungry's relations with the EU. Rory McElroy is one of the famous master's golf tournament in August of Georgia.
He becomes just the fourth player ever to win the event in back-to-back years. From member station, W-A-B-E in Atlanta, Alex Helmick has more.
It took McElroy years to win his first master's last year.
Now the world's number two golfer joins greats, Jack Nicholas, Tiger Woods, and Nick Faldo as the only players to win two in a row. McElroy held off challenges from several players in the final round, including a surge from golf's number one ranked player, Scotty Sheffler, who finished runner-up, one stroke behind McElroy's 12 under par. McElroy now has six majors along with another green jacket.
He also takes home a $4.5 million purse for MPR News. I'm Alex Helmick. In its second week of distribution, the Super Mario Galaxy movie continued to dominate both. The box office is this weekend.
The sequel brought in another $69 million in domestic ticket sales. That makes the two week total for the movie $38 million in a nationally. In a nationally rather, it's hauled in $629 million.
Project Mary finished in second with $24.6 million.
I'm Dale Wilman and PR News. This week on here and now anytime, what the crew of Artemis saw in space and why it's gotten NASA over the moon. We also hear Lebanese perspectives on the Israeli invasion, and an iPod archaeologist goes through the old iPods she's discovered and finds some bangers.
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