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President Trump says the U.S. has begun a blockade of Iranian ports.
“He's trying to get Tehran to open the state of Hormuz and accept a deal to end the war.”
Iran responded with threats on U.S.-Allide ports in the region that poses a serious risk for the global economy and the nearly-week-old cease-fire is and appears at Tom Bowman reports. It's possible if fighting could start again if Iran starts hitting U.S. warships or commercial ships trying to transit through the state of Hormuz or attacking the energy sector of Gulf allies.
The Iranians have said they have major untouched levers to pull and response to the block cable. We don't know what that means. At this point, it's an economic war trying to get Iran back to negotiating table NPR's Tom Bowman reporting. Pope Leo has arrived in Algeria on an 11-day tour in Africa who also travel to Ecuador, Guinea and Gola and Cameroon. The trip comes in the wake of a sharp public attack from
President Trump amid tensions over the war in Iran and appears a manual Akinwotu reports.
Pope Leo is the first Pope to arrive in Algeria, Africa's largest country.
Catholics are a tiny minority among the largely Muslim population. But Algeria is the birthplace of the order of sent Augustine to which Pope Leo belongs. The trip however comes amid escalating tensions with the White House of the war in Iran criticised by Pope Leo and on Sunday night, President Trump attacked the Pope. "We don't like a Pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon. We don't want
to Pope this as crime is okay in our cities. I don't like it. I'm not a big fan of Pope Leo." And while still on an aircraft landing in Algeria, Pope Leo responded. "Too many people are suffering in the world today. Too many innocent people are being killed.
“And I think someone has to stand up and say when we find this a better way for us."”
"You might know Akinwotu and Pyongyus." "Laykos." Authorities in St. Paul are investigating the arrest of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents. As a possible burglary in kidnapping, his Matt Sepic of Minnesota Public Radio reports, the federal government is refusing to share information about the incident.
During the height of immigration operations in January, agents broke into chungley Tau's home without a judicial warrant and forced him outside in freezing weather clad only in shorts. They released Tau an hour later after learning that he was not the undocumented sex offender they were after. Ramsey County Attorney John Choices that he may sue the Department of Homeland Security if it continues to block his request for
information. "We have, I believe, in the state of Minnesota, a sovereign right,
“and a huge public interest to have a local investigation."”
Homeland Security calls the move a quote "political stunt to demonize ICE law enforcement." For NPR News, I'm Matt Sepic in St. Paul. "Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes fell in March. There's slowest pace in nine months. The National Media and Sales Price increased 1.4% in March from a year earlier to more than $488,000. This is NPR News." A federal judge has dismissed President Trump's $10 billion
defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The article described as sexually suggestive letter that bore Trump's signature for Epstein's 50th birthday. Trump has denied writing the note and says he'll refile his complaint. More than 1,000 Hollywood players have signed a letter protesting the proposed merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery and appears modally Dolbarko reports.
The letter was signed by Hollywood directors and actors among them JJ Abrams and Denifa News, Brian Kranston, Glenn Close and Jane Fonda. As founder of the relaunched committee for the
first amendment, Fonda has posted videos opposing the $110 million deal by Media Mogul David
Ellison back by his billionaire father Larry Ellison. The idea of the whole entertainment industry being run by one company. That doesn't seem good. The letter argues the deal would not only consolidate the media at which shrink competition independence and diversity of the entertainment industry. In a response, Paramount pictures re-interrates its support of talent and promises to release a minimum of 30 feature films a year with both theatrical runs.
Warner Brothers shareholders will vote on the deal on April 23. Mandalate Delbatico and PR News. The world's oldest gorilla living in captivity has celebrated her 69th birthday. Fattu spent her day munching on cherry tomatoes, beats and lettuce at the Berlin Zoo. She arrived in what was then West Berlin in the 1959 when she was about two years old. Gorillas can live for around 35 to 40 years in the wild and longer in captivity. This is NPR.
Want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe had to head them off at the past? That's on the media specialty. I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
