"Live from NPR News in Washington.
continues. 13 ships so far have turned around at the direction of the U.S. fleet off
“the street of Hormuz. And here's Quil Lawrence has more."”
At a news conference, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Kane, and Secretary of Defense Pete Higgs-Eth, said since the blockade began on Monday, ships have made what they called the "wise choice of turning around," when confronted. The U.S. military has been broadcasting this message to any vessel coming from or heading to Iranian ports. "We've not yet had the briefs locked in. The vessels have been boarded for interduciencies
or traitors in torque on the Iranian port. Turn around and compare the portings. If you don't like this lock-in, you will use force." Higgs-Eth also criticized the U.S. media for coverage of the war, calling reporters unpatriotic and comparing them to the biblical Pharisees who persecuted Jesus Christ. Quil Lawrence and PR News.
In his first appearance on Capitol Hill this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his record
“in running the Department of Health and Human Services.”
If yours will stone reports, Kennedy testified in two different house hearings today. Kennedy listed his agency's accomplishments on issues like drug price negotiations and
new dietary guidelines. Meanwhile, Democrats grilled him on the $16 billion in
proposed cuts. And the agency's efforts to weaken the vaccine schedule. In one exchange, Representative Linda Sanchez asked him about the death of an unvaccinated child in Texas for measles. "Do you agree with the majority of doctors that the measles vaccine could have saved that child's life in Texas?"
"It's possible, certainly." News broke during the hearing when President Trump announced he was naming Dr. Erica Schwartz to head the CDC. Schwartz served as chief medical officer of the U.S. Coast Guard and Deputy Surgeon General in the first Trump administration. Will stone and PR News?
"I'm in the ongoing dispute between Pope Leo and the Trump administration over actions and Iran. A new poll finds an increasing number of Americans. Say President Trump isn't especially religious. If your station derives has more on the findings from Pew Research." "Seven in 10 Americans, say President Donald Trump is not too religious or not at all religious. That's up 8% from the last time Pew asked the question in the fall of 2024. Still,
white evangelicals continue to say Donald Trump stands up for people with religious beliefs like theirs. One of the biggest changes today, 80% of Hispanic Catholics say Trump is not too or not at all religious, up from 60% in the previous survey. Latino voters helped return him to office last year. Notably, this poll was conducted earlier this month, just before President Trump partially
criticized Pope Leo on social media, Jason D'Ros, NPR News. Wall Street higher by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal water managers are expected to announce a plan to add water to the nation's
second largest reservoir. From a member station KJZZ, Alex Hager reports, like Powell's
water levels on the Arizona Utah border are dangerously low after a dry winter." The plan would send Colorado River Water into Powell from upstream reservoirs. It would limit the amount that's released downstream toward the Grand Canyon and Lake Mead. Arizona's top water official Tom Bouchatzki says it's only possible because his state, California, and Nevada made cutbacks.
"We, in the lower basin, were proactive, reduced our lawyers." That's a rally, this federal plan, to go forward. Bouchatzki called on the upper basin states of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and New Mexico to do more to keep water in Powell. He says this reshuffling of water would be a short-term fix. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager and Phoenix.
The Federal Commission has approved the design concept for the massive arch President Trump wants to build at the entrance to the nation's capital. The 250-foot tall arch would rise on federal land on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, and if built to that height, it would obstruct sightlines to the Lincoln Memorial in DC. The proposed monument would be the largest victory arch in the world. The Seven Member Commission of Fine Arts made up of
Trump appointees as for some tweaks to the submitted design, including a suggestion to replace proposed statues of lions adorning the arch's base with eagles, animals that are native to north-America. We've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twisting of a movie, or they tell you who dies at the end, in other words, you've run
“into a spoiler. How should you handle spoilers and what even counts as a spoiler?”
We'll tell you how we handle spoilers as critics on NPR's Pop Culture Hacky Hour, listen by the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
