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The Iranian military is carrying out a tax on tanker ships in the state of Hormuz, hours
“after re-imposing restrictions in the waterway.”
The announcement came the morning after President Trump said an American blockade would remain until a peace agreement with Tehran is reached. There's no word on when negotiations between the two sides will resume with a ceasefire set to expire next week. The ceasefire deal between the U.S. Israel and Iran is set to expire early next week.
In Friday night, Trump said that a tax on Iran could resume if no deal is reached. Meanwhile, a ten-day ceasefire is an effect to pause the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah and Lebanon, something Iran required in order to continue talks with the U.S. Catlonsdorf MPR News Beirut. Air Canada says it's suspending some flights to New York this summer, Dan Carpynchuk reports
the conflict in Iran is making certain routes unprofitable. With the decision over rising jet fuel prices will affect flights from Tehrano and Montreal to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from June 1 to the end of October. Air Canada says jet fuel prices have doubled since the beginning of the Iran conflict and it no longer makes sense economically to continue some routes.
Effective customers will be contacted with alternate travel options such as flying to La Guardia and Newark Liberty, daily from six Canadian cities. Aviation experts say that jet fuel prices is getting serious and airlines will have to consolidate the routes. Some are already passing on fuel prices increases to their customers.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpynchuk in Tehrano. President Trump signed an executive order at the White House this morning expanding access to a psychedelic drug that's used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.
Today, the federal government is making a $50 million research investment in its own, and so that was just approved just last night.
We're also opening a pathway for our eyeball gain to be administered to desperately ill patients under the right to try law. That's a lawyer that I started and I got right to try. The drug eyeball gain has been explored as a treatment for addiction, depression, and anxiety, but it remains illegal in the United States. There was a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2025. It showed that a single dose of the psychedelic LSD could ease anxiety and depression for months.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will cut the ribbon on its new David Geffen galleries this weekend. Being a Gregory reports the 724 million dollar building will house the museum's permanent collection. Spanning 6,000 years of world history, Lactma's encyclopedic collection will now call the Petersum tour design building home. The Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect, News Museums can feel elitist.
Not this one, no columns to walk through, no architecture that makes you feel small. That's a thinking behind the curation, as well. CEO Michael Govind explains. Instead of thinking about the way the 19th century was obsessed with categorization and chronology,
“what if we look at the opposite, which is migration and connection?”
The new building already has a connection with LA traffic. Its organic shape is elevated 30 feet above williable of art. Cars, drive under, pedestrians, pecan, look up at the right time and you might see a sphinx. Expect to see many selfies from Lactma. For MPR News, I'm Nina Gregory.
A federal judge has blocked the proposed 6.2 billion dollar merger between next-door and Tegna, pending the outcome of an anti-trust lawsuit. The deal would create one of the largest local TV station groups in the country with holdings in more than 40 states. State attorneys general and direct TV argue it could raise prices and hurt local journalism.
In a statement, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the merger is illegal, plain and simple. Next-door says the merger has already cleared federal review. I'm Windsor-Johnston and PR News in Washington. You know, every day on up first NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast,
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