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This is the first full day of a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon.
“These really militaries have been attacking Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon”
as Bola has opposed direct talks between Lebanon and Israel and has expressed skepticism of ceasefire. Israel says it will keep its troops in southern Lebanon as Bola says it is going to resist that occupation. And separately, President Trump says a new round of talks between the U.S. and Iran could
happen this weekend. He even suggested that he could go to Pakistan if a deal to end the war is signed there. Trump spoke to supporters in Las Vegas yesterday and said he thinks the conflict will be over soon. "I will say the war and Iran is going along swimmingly, we can do whatever we want.
And it should be, it should be ending pretty soon, it was perfect."
Trump also dismissed higher costs for gasoline. Triple A says the national average is now about $4 a gallon, about a dollar more than before the war started.
“The House has passed a short extension to a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance”
Act, Pfizer. The extension applies to Section 702 of the Pfizer Act. The Senate could take it up as early as today. It will expire by Monday unless Congress approves the stock gap measure and gets it to President Trump's desk, and appears Eric McDaniel has more.
The program allows U.S. intelligence agencies to scoop up the communications of more than 300,000 foreign nationals located out of the United States each year. The government says the intelligence collected under Pfizer 702 underpins a huge share of the President's daily intelligence briefings. But reformers in both parties have long been concerned about the government reviewing
Americans' private information, gathered as part of the surveillance. And sought tighter regulations on how it can do so, and the repercussions for violating protocol. Eric McDaniel and PR news, the capital.
“The Netflix says its co-founder and chair, Reed Hastings, is stepping down in June, and”
appears Monday the Barco reports, Hastings' decision came as the streaming company posted a strong earnings report. In 1997, Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix with Mark Randolph. It began as a scrappy idea to send out movie DVDs by mail and read envelopes to subscribers. Netflix grew to be at global streaming powerhouse, now run by Hastings' successors, Greg
Peters, and Ted Serrandus. Reed, thank you for the trust you placed in us. Thank you. During a call to reporters Serrandus praised Hastings' leadership. You know, Reed is an economist and engineer in his head, but he's a teacher in his heart.
Reed not only shared the spotlight, a real rarity in Hollywood, by the way. He pushed me into the spotlight and celebrated the winds. In the process, Hastings defined an entirely new industry. When his term expires in June, he says he'll focus on his philanthropy and other pursuits, Mandalit del Barco and PR news.
You're listening to MPR. A federal judge's ruled construction work that's below ground can go forward on President Trump's new ballroom at the White House, but the judge says all the work being done above grounds still has to stop. The Trump administration had argued the underground work is for security purposes and includes
a proposed bunker. The federal judge says the rest of the work still needs to be approved by Congress. There's a winner in a special election for a New Jersey Congressional seat, Democrat Anna Lilia Mahia, beat Republican Joe Hathaway in yesterday's vote. The seat was previously held by Democrat Mikey Cheryl, who became New Jersey governor.
Mahia, a progressive candidate, won a seat in a district that is considered moderate. The Artemis II astronaut say they still have not been able to fully process the emotional impact of their trip around the moon, and beer's no greenfield boys has more. The commander of the mission, NASA astronaut Reed Wiseman, says the week since their splash down in the Pacific Ocean, has been super busy.
It's been a week of medical testing, physical testing, doctors, science, objectives. I would like we have not had that decompression, we have not had that reflection time.
He says their trip was amazing, and he wanted to set the record straight about their
spacecraft's plumbing. I just want to say 100 percent point blank, that was a wonderful toilet. He said it flushed just fine. The only hitch was a blocked line that was supposed to dump its wastewater out into space. Nell Greenfield Boys and PR News.
And I'm Corva Coleman, NBR News, from Washington. 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.
