"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
Just hours after no agreement was reached at peace talks in Pakistan between the United
“States and Iran to end the war, President Trump today said the U.S. military would begin”
a blockade of the straight-of-horn moods. Trump also warned Iran that any country should attack the U.S. or friendly vessels they would quote be "blown to hell." Shortly after that social media post, the President was on Fox News discussing the status of the war.
"The military has gone, everything's gone, their missiles are down to a trickle by comparison. You know, we knocked out thousands of missiles. We knocked out hundreds of places where the missiles are built, different parts. They're pretty much gone.
Probably, they say 85, 82 percent, 85 percent who knows what it is, but we knocked
them out. We knocked out where they make the drones and the drones are less effective now and also we have new machinery to kill the drones. You saw that."
“Trump also said the U.S. military will conduct operations in the straight to remove”
mines that he says Iran placed there to impeach shipping. Negotiations at the Ambassador level are scheduled to begin Tuesday and Washington between Israel and Lebanon. Officials from those nations say they will discuss ways to end the fighting that his extended is Israel seeks to remove his bullet forces from Lebanon.
Lawmakers are back in Washington this week, after a two week break, top of the agenda of the war in Iran and PR's Eric McDaniel has more. Democrats are incensed over President Trump's threat to end Iranian civilization ahead of last week's ceasefire announcement. More than three dozen called for him to be removed from office.
After this weekend's talks led by Vice President Bans failed, Democrats will force votes on the war in an attempt to curb the president's powers. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war, though it's been sometimes since they asserted it.
“The show votes are expected to fail, but ahead of the eventual consideration of the president's”
$1.5 trillion Pentagon funding request. They'll put Republicans on the record about a military campaign that remains extremely unpopular among the American public. Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington. Hungarians are going to the polls today at a closely watched election Terry Schultz reports.
Victor Orban is a prominent leader in far-right politics worldwide. He's repeatedly vetoed the European Union's efforts to provide support for Ukraine and he's blocked sanctions on Moscow for its full-scale invasion. Last week, Vice President J.D. Vance flew to Hungary to show White House support for Orban.
For the first time, a challenger is ahead in the polls.
Peter Majer used to be a member of Orban's fetish party, and now leads his own. Majer says he'll work to improve relations with the EU and cut off close ties with the Kremlin, Majer urges voters to give him a commanding win, saying his party TISA will need at least two-thirds of the 199-seat parliament to be able to carry out decisive changes.
For MPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels. And from Washington, you're listening to NPR News. In Miami, the former Mandarin Oriental Hotel, once one of South Florida's most exclusive locations was demolished today, it is the largest implosion in Miami and more than a decade.
The 23-story building came down in less than 20 seconds. Dust filled the air after the explosion moments after the dynamite brought the building down. The demolition clears the way for a new two-story luxury hotel and a residential development scheduled to open in 2030. Singer Asher Bowley, one of the giants of the Indian movie and music industries, is
died NPR's Anastasia Siolkis reports that she gave voice to hundreds of movie characters in Bollywood. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Asher Bowley was the most recorded singer of all time. Over a career that lasted nearly eight decades, she recorded more than 12,000 songs, mostly
from movie actresses to lip sync on screen. And for much of her career, her main competition was her older sister, Latta Mangeshkar. Her father was a classical Indian singer, but he died young. So the sisters made their way to Mumbai and started singing for films to help support their family.
Bozza made her first recording when she was just 10 years old.
Anastasia Sokis and Piaon News, New York. At the masters, the co-leaders of golf's first major tournament of the year, tea offered about 90 minutes, Rory McElroy and Cameron Young begin the day tied at 11 under par. I'm Dan Ronan, NPR News in Washington, support for NP. On NPR's wildcard podcast, actor Tim Blake Nelson reflects on his career before movies.
While my first job, working at the Tulsa Beef Company, to pay off legal debts from having been arrested for public intoxication. Watch our listen to that wildcard conversation on the NPR app or on YouTube at NPR Wildcard.
