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"Live from NPR News and Washington, on Corva Coleman, President Trump says he...

with Iran could soon end."

He spoke in an interview with Fox Business News journalist Maria Bartaromo, his comments

come as there are reports that he was in Iran could hold a second round of peace talks.

Trump also told Fox Business News he wants to fire federal reserve board chair Jerome Powell. Powell's term is the Fed board chief N's May 15, but he can remain until the new chair is confirmed by the Senate. It can also stay on as a Fed reserve governor. Trump has been pressuring Powell to leave.

"Well, then I'll have to fire up. Okay. If he's not leaving on time, I've held back firing him. I've wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial. You know, I want to be uncontroversial.

But, uh, Trump said he'll be fired. It's not clear if Trump mentored force Powell out even as a temporary leader, or if he would seek to force Powell off the board entirely. The war in Iran could trigger a global recession, that's according to the latest forecast from the International Monetary Fund.

The IMF single-doubt the United Kingdom is one of the hardest hit economies.

That's because of the UK's reliance on imported oil and gas. And Pierce Fatima Al-Kasab reports from London. Like in the United States, households in the UK are already feeling the pinch from the war in Iran. Leaders around Europe are increasingly frustrated at rising fuel prices.

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves blamed President Trump for the economic pain being felt by families in the UK and US. In an interview with the mirror newspaper, I've felt very frustrated and angry that the US went into this war without a clear, exit mountain. In Ireland, the government has announced hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts on

motor fuel, after fuel protests brought much of the country to a standstill. One of the safest prices stay high, expect more of these protests around the world. Fatima Al-Kasab MP-on-use London. It's tax day if you're planning to file a tax return by mail, you may want to stop by a post office in person and Pierce Hansi Lohong reports the US Postal Service may not post

marks some tax returns and other mail. On the same day, they are sent.

Driving off your fiddle income tax return at a mailbox or with a letter carry today may

not be enough to file your taxes on time. That's because the IRS requires the envelope to have a postmark date that's on or before the filing deadline. The US Postal Service usually automatically stamps post marks on envelopes when a process is mail-etched dropped off, but exactly when that processing happens has become more complicated

in more parts of the country. And it's because USPS has cut back half and it picks up mail in certain areas as part of its reorganization.

That means some first-class mail dropped off today may not get postmarked until tomorrow.

And that could lead to the IRS applying late filing or late payment penalties. Make sure your tax return gets a postmark for it today, USPS recommends going to a post office and asking for free manual postmark at the counter. Hansi Lohong and Pernus. You're listening to NPR.

A federal appeals court is blocked the lower judge's effort to investigate former homeland security secretary Christy Nome and other Trump administration officials for potential criminal contempt. The appeals court ruling was two to one. It said federal judge James Boisberg abused his discretion by probing Nome's actions in sending

deportation flights to El Salvador. The appeals court judge who disagreed said this ruling will hurt future judges who need to examine the actions of the executive branch. Germany is hosting an international conference today to raise funds for the humanitarian situation caused by the war in Sudan.

The UN says the humanitarian crisis is the largest in the world and that a famine in Sudan is the worst in the world for decades and appears in manual acting will to reports.

Germany's government says it hopes to raise more than one billion dollars from the conference

and spark international action. The crisis is especially bad in the western region of Darfur where millions are facing famine in that condition. Mohammed Tejani is an eight worker with care and NGO supporting eight camps in Darfur. "I made the woman, she told me that I prefer to die instead of seeing my giant crying from

requesting for food. A woman tells me that I buried two of my children because of hunger." The region is controlled by the rapid support forces or RSF who are at war with Sudan's army. The UN says violence by the RSF and allied Arab militias bears the whole marks of a genocide against African ethnic groups.

In manual, I can go to NPR News from Washington. "I want to understand the reason and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe had a head of the staff at the past. That's on the media specialty. I'm Brook Gladstone host of WNYC's On the Media, listen wherever you get your podcasts."

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