"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louis Skivoni.
Stock prices rallied and crude oil prices started to retreat by the close of business on Wall Street.
“Amid indications the U.S. and Iran are working toward resumed talks to alert new hostilities”
in the U.S. as real war in Iran. The Dow gained 317 points, brand crude fell more than 4% to roughly $94 a barrel above the $70 a barrel price pre-war, but below a $119 peak. Lebanon and Israel have held their first direct diplomatic talks and decades. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration is happy to facilitate the
talks, though he's downplaying expectations for a quick breakthrough, and PR's Michelle Kellen has more. Secretary Rubio gathered the ambassadors from Lebanon and Israel to talk about how to end Woody calls 20 to 30 years of Hezbollah's influence in the region.
Israeli ambassador Michael Lighter says the fact that the talks took place at always a victory
because Hezbollah urged the Lebanese government not to take part. "We are both united in liberating Lebanon from an occupation power dominated by Iran called his Bala."
“But he was making no promises that Israel will ease up on its military campaign against”
Hezbollah. Lighter says the talks will resume in a few weeks. Michelle Kellen and PR news, the State Department. Two members of Congress want to Democrat the other a Republican are resigning from the U.S. House of Representatives.
Due to allegations of sexual misconduct, Eric Swallwell has also abandoned his Democratic Party bid for California's governorship. This, as another woman stepped forward today, to charge that Swallwell drugged and raped her eight years ago, which Swallwell denies. Swallwell's letter to the House was read by Clark Tiles Ali.
"I plan to resign my seat in Congress effective at 2 p.m. Eastern time on April 14, 26." Also leaving Congress early GOP lawmaker Tony Gonzalez of Texas after he had been to an affair with the staff member who later died by suicide. A super typhooned is battering Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands and PR's Rebecca
HRSA reports its bringing sustained winds of up to 150 miles an hour and flooding to the Pacific Territories.
"Super typhoons in Laku is hitting the Northern Mariana Islands with dangerous winds, powerful
enough to down trees, knockout electricity, and even destroy wood-frame buildings. It's also bringing significant flooding to Guam. Powerful typhoons and hurricanes are more likely to form because of climate change. Ocean temperatures are rising because of planet warming pollution from burning oil, gas, and coal, that warmer ocean water helps storms like St. Laku get larger and more dangerous.
Rebecca HRSA and PR News." "This is NPR." New research suggests that military personnel exposed to repeated bomb blasts are much more likely to develop rain aneurysms and PR's John Hamilton has more on a study in the journal Radiology. The study used magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brains of more than 500 members
of special operations units, which are often near explosions. The scan showed that brain aneurysms were three times as common in individuals with high levels of blast exposure compared with those who had relatively low exposure. The abnormality was found in 9.5% of the high exposure group compared with just 2.7% in the low exposure group. Aneurysms are weak or bulging spots in an artery that are prone to rupture
and can cause deadly pleading in the brain. Researchers suspect that blast waves damage the walls of an artery by stretching the vessel beyond its limits. John Hamilton and PR News. Tomorrow Wednesday, April 15th is the big day for U.S. taxpayers. You could be fined if you don't file on time and you can file either electronically or through the mail.
If you're filing by mail, here's what the internal revenue service is expecting.
Your envelope with its documents is considered to have been filed on time if you have used the right address enough postage and a postmark date that is on or before the filing deadline to make sure your mail to the IRS is properly postmarked. The U.S. Postal Service recommends going into the post office during business hours and asking for a manual postmark. The S&P 500 closed up 81 points today. I'm Luis Givoni and PR News, Washington.
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