Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
The United States and Iran will hold a second round of peace talks in Pakistan, and
“a post on social media, President Trump said a U.S. delegation will travel to Islamabad”
Monday night to resume negotiations. NPR's Tamariki reports the two-week ceasefire between the two sides is nearing its end, and Tehran has once again closed the straight of Hormuz. Trump is sending every signal he can that he wants this war to be over, but the U.S. isn't the only side in this negotiation.
Trump said Saturday the U.S. is taking a tough stand, and it's working out very well. But in person talks haven't resumed, and if anything, tensions are again rising. Trump needs the straight of Hormuz open to get global oil prices down. High prices are driving voter frustration with the war, and causing political problems for Trump and his party, Iran is using it as leverage.
Trump has also drawn a red line on Iran's nuclear program, which is proving difficult to negotiate away. Tamariki and PR News.
“To Indian flagship ships were attacked in the straight of Hormuz after Tehran reimposed”
restrictions on the shipping channel. The PR's Dear Hadid reports India has summoned the Iranian ambassador to New Delhi. Iran reversed its decision and reached up the straight a few hours after it was opened. After President Trump said the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports would stay in place. But during the brief opening on Saturday, the Indian Foreign Ministry said there was
"a brief incident of firing on merchant ships." On Saturday, the UK's maritime trade operation centre said it received a report that
to Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats fired on a tanker.
It didn't say if the tanker was Indian flagged. More than 20,000 seafarers have been stuck on hundreds of ships in the Gulf since the mid-East War began in late February. Dear Hadid, MPR News, Columbus. The window to register to vote in this year's primary elections is closing soon in a handful
of states, and PR's Ansih Lohong reports they're getting ready to hold their contest in May. People voters in Georgia and Kentucky, when it cast balance in the May 19th, primaries have until Monday to register. West Virginia's registration deadline for its May 12th primary is on Tuesday, and there's
still about a week left to register online for Louisiana's primary, and a sign-up
online by mail or in person for the primary in Oregon.
Virginia is holding a special election for congressional redistricting referendum on Tuesday, and eligible Virginians who have not registered yet can still do so in person at an early voting location or their polling site on Tuesday. If you've already registered to vote, you may want to check your status on your state election officials' website.
Elzbo voters can sometimes be removed from lists, especially if they move, change their name or haven't voted in a while. Hanzi Lohong and Phearnews. This is NPR. Florida's Board of Education has pulled sociology from the list of classes, students attending
state colleges can choose from in order to graduate. This pattern welch reports this follows as similar move at the state's 12 Public Universities. The Board of Education voted to remove introductory sociology courses from counting toward general education requirements at Florida's 28 state colleges.
The classes will still be available as electives. The Board's chair said in a statement that general education courses can not be used as "vealcals for indoctrination." Sociology has been in the crosshairs since a 2023 Florida law banned courses that include teachings about how racism, sexism and privilege are inherent in the country's institutions.
The United Faculty of Florida called the state's earlier changes to sociology textbooks sanitizing. For NPR News, I'm Catherine Welch in Orlando. Three people in California have been sentenced in an insurance fraud scheme involving a person in a bare costume.
Biologists at the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Review the footage and determined it showed a human in a bare suit. Authorities say the group staged fake attacks on luxury cars, including a Rolls Royce and two Mercedes. They saw nearly $142,000 in claims to have been ordered to pay more than $50,000 in
restitution. This is NPR News in Washington. What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other aspect of our identities.
“What we're living through, I think, is really the two parties taking opposite sides on whether”
we want to keep making this type of social progress or whether we want to go back in time. This is NPR's Co twitch podcast and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast.
