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President Trump says peace talks between the U.S. and Iran could take place in the coming
days.
“Iran wants to make a deal, and we're dealing very nicely with them.”
We've got to have no nuclear weapons, and we do that's a big factor, and they're willing to do things today that they weren't willing to do two months ago. Speaking there at the White House before he headed to Las Vegas for an economic round table. It says if it does happen, he might travel to Pakistan.
That country has served as a mediator in the talks. Meanwhile Israel and Lebanon have agreed to attend a ceasefire that's not underway. The two countries held their first diplomatic talks in decades after more than a month of war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group, which wasn't part of the talks.
Israel's attacks have hit civilian areas, displacing around 1 million people in Beirut.
This after Iran said the Israeli strikes on Lebanon have to stop as part of any longer-term peace deal with the U.S. After a month-long search, President Trump has selected a former military physician
“to serve as director of the CDC, impures Ping Wang reports she has a long list of credentials.”
Dr. Eric Schwarz has served as chief medical officer for the Coast Guard, and is deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration. She's a preventive medicine doctor and lawyer with a master's in public health from the uniform services university. Admiral Brett Jawah, which closely with her, has a assistant secretary for health in the
first Trump administration. Her academic training and intellect is second to none. I mean, she's a person of the highest integrity and commitment to service to this country. Schwarz will now go through the Senate confirmation process, which could take several months.
In the meantime, Dr. J. Baudertario will continue to lead both the CDC and the National Institutes of Health, Ping Wang and PR News. Uncertainty, around natural disasters and immigration policy, is causing uncertainty in the housing market. That's according to a new report from Oxford Economics that revised down the number of
needed houses due to a drop in net migration. And Pierre Steven Bassaha has more. Long-term, there's uncertainty around how many homes will need replacing due to extreme weather events. Oxford Economics, Nancy Vandenhoutin, also says declining U.S. birth rates mean
immigration policy will also play a role. I mean, if immigrants are going to make up the larger share of the population, and there's more uncertainty about how many immigrants we're going to have that creates more uncertainty for our forecasts for the amount of needed housing. There's also short-term uncertainty due to the war the run, driving a barring cost.
The National Association of Home Builders index on voter sentiment is the most pessimistic it's been in seven months. Steven Bassaha and PR News. While street hire by the closing bell, the Dow was up 115 points the NASDAQ up 86. You're listening to NPR News.
Police say former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife before killing himself at their northern Virginia home today. Their two teenage children were home at the time. This amid a cramonious divorce proceedings, in 2019 to women also accused Fairfax of sexual
assault allegations he denied, Fairfax was the only the second black person elected to
statewide office in Virginia since Reconstruction. A federal judge has ruled that above ground construction on the new White House ballroom project must stop until lawmakers approve. And here's Anastasia Sulu, because reports the ruling says the below ground work at the site, including building up bunker, can go forward.
The judge, Richard J. Leon, is continuing to block the Trump administration from building a 90,000 foot ballroom on the site of the White House's former East Wing until the new addition is approved by Congress. In his ruling, Judge Leon wrote, quote, "National security is not a blank check to proceed with otherwise unlawful activity."
But the judge is allowing the White House to proceed with below ground work on a bunker and other, quote, "National security facilities on the construction site." The judge also passed his order until April 23, giving the White House time to file a new appeal. But he also wrote, quote, "I have no desire or intention to be dreamt into the role of construction manager," Anastasia Sulucus and PR News.
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