"Line from NPR news in Washington," I'm Corva Coleman, the leaders of Britain...
are meeting today with officials of more than 40 nations.
“They're talking about how to keep ships safe in the Strait of Hormuz, but only when”
the Strait reopens. The U.S. and Iran are both blockading the Strait in the midst of their two-week ceasefire. Today is the first day of a 10-day temporary ceasefire in Lebanon to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. President Trump announced the deal online yesterday, he spoke to leaders of both countries,
that many people displaced in Lebanon still cannot go home, and beer's cat-launched or reports from Beirut. "Who sane far-hat fled his home early in the war, and has been stained in central Beirut. He told NPR now he might venture back to his home and shop to check on them, but he won't be stained for good yet."
"It's heartbreaking to just visit your home, and then leave again," he says.
But for many of the more than 1 million people in Lebanon displaced by this war, they
don't have homes to go back to. Israel remains occupying whole villages in the south to create what it calls a buffer zone, to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets at its population. After the ceasefire was announced yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated, "We are not leaving."
Cat-launched off, and Beirut. "Held in human services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testified at two congressional hearings this week," NPR's will stone says Kennedy defended his record, running HHS. "Kennedy listed his agencies' 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. News broke during the hearing when President Trump announced he was naming Dr. Eric Hoshwartz to head the CDC. The report 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. The uncertainty around natural disasters and U.S. immigration policy is also causing uncertainty in the U.S. housing market. That's according to a new report from Oxford Economics. The report lowered the number of houses that are needed in the U.S., and Beirut's
even Besaha reports that's due to fewer migrants in the country. "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 of Iran driving a barring cost. The National Association of Homeboaters indexed on voter sentiment is the most pessimistic
it's been in seven months. Steven Besaha and PR News." "You're listening to NPR News from Washington. New York City Democratic Mayor Zoran Mamdoni has now been in office for one-hundred days. Met President Trump at the White House at least twice since taking office in November.
Mamdoni says while he opposes many of Trump's policies he's found a way to work with the President." "I've been quite clear with the President, and also with the public of my deep disagreement and opposition to so many of these policies.
“And I think that one of the few things that we have in common is that we are both New”
Yorkers. And I think one part of being a New Yorker is both to be honest and to be direct. And when I'm sitting with the President, we talk about places of potential collaboration, but we're also very clear about places of disagreement." "Eat spoke to NPR's morning edition.
severe weather has been pounding Michigan, that's led to Governor Gretchen Whitmer declaring a state of emergency in nearly 40% of her state. From member station WCMU, AJ Jones, has more." Floating has made many roads and bridges and possible in Michigan's lower peninsula.
Several dams remain in critical condition amid melting snow and heavy rain, and some
communities have been ordered to evacuate. Whitmer says the state is in crisis mode and more help is on the way. All eyes are on the Shaboygen Dam in the tip of Michigan's myth. Cruze of place to several large super sack sandbags around the dam added massive pumps to divert water and are trying to revive a shuttered hydroelectric plant to save the dam.
For NPR News, I'm AJ Jones in Shaboygen, Michigan. And I'm Kurova Coleman, NPR News, from Washington. You know, every day on up first NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring you three essential stories.
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