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President Trump says the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will continue
“"as it pertains to Iran" until a peace deal is reached between the U.S. and Iran.”
And Piers' deepest shiveram has more. Earlier Friday, Iran said it would open up the Strait to commercial vessels after a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was reached on Thursday. Trump announced that ceasefire and said leaders from Israel and Lebanon would likely come to the White House next week, though plans have not yet been finalized.
Trump said he expects a quick resolution with Iran, quote as most of the points are already negotiated, but until then, the U.S. naval blockade will continue. Deepish Ivaram and Piers News. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister, Kear Starmer, are welcoming word that the Strait is open to commercial traffic during the temporary U.S. Iran ceasefire.
Leaders of those 49 countries were in Paris today for an international conference on securing maritime navigation in the Strait. Starmer says the U.K. and France will continue planning an international mission to restore maritime security.
“We will take this forward with a military-cline conference in London next week, where”
we will announce more detail on the composition of the mission and over a dozen countries have already offered to contribute assets. He says the Strait should be open without tolls or restrictions. Thousands of civilian Lebanese displaced by weeks of fighting between Israel and the Iranian back to militant group Hezbollah are trying to head home as a fragile ceasefire between Israel
and Lebanon holds, around 1 million people, but a fifth of the population have been displaced
by the Israeli attacks. RSV is a highly contagious respiratory virus, and the most common reason why babies end up in the hospital in their first year of life. And Paris Maria Gadoye reports a large study, finds a vaccine given to expect in mothers, is more effective at protecting babies than previously known.
The study comes from the U.K. Health Security Agency, where researchers looked at outcomes for some 289,000 babies born between September 2024 and March 2025.
“That was the first season that the U.K. offered free RSV vaccines to all pregnant women in”
their third trimester. That maternal vaccination dramatically cut the risk that babies ended up hospitalized, says study author Matt Wilson. What we found is that as long as there is at least two weeks, between vaccination and birth, we get this kind of 80% effect, 80% reduction.
Clinical trials had shown the shot to be about 70% effective. The research was presented at the meeting of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Maria Gadoye and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The singer David spelled D4BD, has been arrested for murder, 7 months after the dismembered
body of a teenage girl was found in his car. It appears Rachel Treesman has more. Los Angeles police say David is being held without bail. The 21-year-old singer rose to fame on TikTok with hits like romantic homicide, but abruptly canceled his world tour last September after human remains were found in a Tesla registered
in his name at an LA tow lot. Officials later identified them as those of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her remains were found the day after she would have turned 15. In a statement, David's layers declare his innocence and say he hasn't been charged with anything.
Yet, the LA PD says it will present its case to prosecutors for a charging decision on Monday, Rachel Treesman and PR News. Fans heading to the World Cup matches in New Jersey need to be prepared for a hefty train fair, $150 round trip. That's more than 10 times the normal cost for the 15-minute ride for Manhattan's Penn
Station to the stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. But driving won't help, on-site parking isn't available for most people. Transit officials say they think around 40,000 fans will use mass transit for each match, and that it will cost $62 million to transport those fans. And in Boston, those fans will also face sticker shock of $95 for express buses to the
Gillette Stadium. On Wall Street by the closing bell, the Dow was up 868 points, the Nasdaq up 365, the S&P 500, up 84, to a record. You're listening to NPR News. You know, every day on up first NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring
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