"Lie from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
President Trump has announced a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel effective in four
hours.
“And Piers Daniel Kurtz-Lavin says the Republican leader is positioning himself as a peacemaker.”
"In a social media post, Trump said he recently spoke to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that both agreed to a ceasefire to begin at 5 p.m. Eastern." This week, diplomats from Israel and Lebanon met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Washington.
Israel has been occupying parts of southern Lebanon, and bombing the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, which itself has continued to launch strikes into Israel. This fighting has complicated attempts at ending the war in Iran. It's not immediately clear how an agreement between the two countries might affect Hezbollah, which is not controlled by the Lebanese state.
Trump also wrote that he will invite Aoun and Netanyahu to the White House for talks. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin and PR News. Announcement of a truth comes to days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, where his government had widened its offensive aimed
“at eradicating the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran.”
Israeli media report Netanyahu has convened an urgent security cabinet call to discuss the ceasefire. Congressional Democrats in the U.S. are still pursuing a resolution to limit the president's war powers. Democratic Senator Tim Cane of Virginia spoke with NPR's morning edition. We're going to force a war powers vote every week until this war is over, and we're either going to end it, or we're going to make sure everyone in America knows who was responsible
for it.
And the second option is that we're now writing the defense bill and dealing with appropriations,
including an administration request to dramatically increase the defense budget for the Iran War, those appropriations bills take 60 votes. And so we are not going to just write a blank check for another endless war. Senator Cane speaking with NPR. Investigators in Virginia say former Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax fairly shot his wife
and killed himself. They say it happened overnight.
“Megan Polly of VPM News reports a Democrat was previously accused of sexual assault”
which he denied. Fairfax County Virginia Police Chief Kevin Davis says the community is shocked by this high profile murder suicide that was apparently tied to an ongoing domestic dispute over a messy divorce. Davis said the couple's two teenage children were also in the home at the time of the shootings,
and one was the 911 caller. That's horrible news for the family. Certainly a traumatic event for those for those children to live through. Davis said the Department of Victim Services Division is working with the children. Several Virginia politicians expressed their heartbreak in statements.
State House Speaker Don Scott called it an unspeakable tragedy. For NPR News, I'm Megan Polly in Richmond, Virginia. From Washington, this is NPR News. High temperature records are likely to be broken on the East Coast today. NPR's Jeff Brady reports several like heat in the low 90s as forecast for New York,
Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. The warming climate increases the chance extreme weather will happen. Research shows chances of this heat wave were twice as likely because of climate change. Scientists Christine Adal with the nonprofit climate central says heat in April is a public health concern.
During these early season heat events, we actually see bigger surges of people going to the emergency room for heat-related illness. Dalsas take it easy and drink plenty of water. Trust the Midwest heavy rain and strong winds flooded streets and damaged buildings. Climate change makes torrential downpours more common, which leads to flooded sewers and
other infrastructure that was built for the rainfall of the past. Jeff Brady and PR News. Due to the Iran War oil prices remain elevated, and in the U.S. gas prices are still above $4, although AAA says that the cost for a gallon of regular gasoline is now around $4, just over $4.
The head of the International Energy Agency says Europe may have about six weeks worth of jet fuel left. Fata Barol tells the Associated Press, if ships are not allowed to transit the straight of our moves again soon, the lack of oil supplies could keep planes grounded. Barol says the disruptions pose the largest energy crisis Europe has ever faced.
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This week on-up first, the Trump administration and Iran do not have a peace deal.
Now the president says the straight of her moves is under a U.S. blockade. What that means for the ceasefire in Iran remains to be seen. And what it means for gas prices, those will likely continue to climb. Follow the latest developments we'll have them every morning on-up first.
