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suspending his campaign for California governor as he faces allegations of sexual assault which he says are false. He had already decided not to run for reelection to the house." President Trump says the U.S. will blockade the straight-up horror moves, send com says it starts tomorrow. This after peace talks between the U.S. and Iran and Pakistan
yesterday failed to produce a breakthrough, though the fragile ceasefire is still holding.
And here's Greg Myri says the U.S. has around 20 ships in the region including an aircraft carrier. Iran is believed to have placed mines in the straight and a U.S. official who's not authorized to speak publicly told NPR's Tom Bowman that mine sweepers will also be used as part of the
“blockade. There are a lot of unknowns, you know, will any ships try to break a U.S. blockade?”
And if so, how will the U.S. military respond? And what will Iran do? Will it try to double down on its effective closure of the straight? And here's Greg Myri reporting. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops in Lebanon today amid ongoing talks between Israel and Hezbollah militants there.
Israeli and Lebanese diplomats are now preparing to hold their first direct meeting between
government officials in decades on Tuesday. And if you're as cat-lawn store for reports. Lebanon's Ministry of Health says 97 people were killed by Israeli strikes mainly in the south. On Saturday alone, including three emergency workers. Meanwhile, Hezbollah says it has continued attacks on northern Israel and Israeli troops inside Lebanon. Israel says it struck more than 200
“Hezbollah targets over the weekend. Israel and Lebanon's ambassadors to the U.S. are set to meet in”
Washington to discuss the ceasefire. But at Hezbollah rally in downtown Beirut, Saturday, supporters filled the streets for blocks, waving flags and chanting against negotiations. Many said that after the Israeli attacks last week, which killed more than 350 people in a single day, they don't trust the talks will benefit them. Catwans are MPR news, Beirut. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban lost his reelection bid,
this medical student reports. Speaking to supporters surprising the early on election night out going Prime Minister Victor Orban said he had congratulated the victorious party that party is Tisa and its leader, 45-year-old Peter Magja, who addressing a crowd of thousands on the banks of the Danube called for unity, saying let this be a victory for all Hungarians. Magja's victory was hard one in an electoral system that over the past 16 years
Orban had stacked in his favor from Gerrymandering to controlling the media. As Brussels now looks forward to working with a more pro-European Hungarian leader Moscow and the current White
“House administration have lost in Orban a key ally in Europe. For MPR news, I'm Esmina Kelson”
in Budapest. We're listening to NPR news from Washington. President Trump tells Fox News that the price of oil and gas could be even higher by the midterm elections in November and gas bodies Patrick DeHons says it's likely gas prices could continue to climb and that it will be tough for people already paying more to fill up their cars. It's not impossible that while we have seen a slight dip over the last week that we certainly
couldn't see gas prices re-accelerating and it's not impossible that new records with prices eventually rising above $5 a gallon remain possible. Triple A says the average price of a gallon
of regular gas is $4.12 today. In Golf Rory, Mackle Roy has won the master's for the second year
in a row making him the fourth golfer to win the championship tournament back to back. Steve Futterman has more. It took Rory Mackle Roy 17, sometimes agonizing years to win his first master's last year. He comes back this year to make a two-in-a-row joining Jack Nicolas Tiger Woods and Nick Feldo as the only man to win back to back master's. Mackle Roy didn't make it easy. He began the final hole with a two-stroke lead. He hit his T-shirt into the trees but was able to get a bogey
and that was enough to beat Scottie Sheffler by one stroke so Rory Mackle Roy wears the green jacket for a second straight year. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at the Master's in Acosta. You with features contracts are trading lower at this hour. Dough features are down about 413 points. Nasdech features are down 229 points as some P500 features down about 55 points. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. 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. All that and more on our podcast here and now any time
