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President Trump says the U.S. has seized an Iranian cargo ship after it attempted to violate the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz and PR's Eric McDaniel has more." A mid-peace talks and a looming ends to the ceasefire, President Trump posted to social media that a U.S. may be guided missile destroyer, quote, "blue a hole in the engine room," and quote, "of an Iranian flaged cargo ship, the Tuska."

Trump says Marines then took control of the vessel and moved to investigate its cargo. He said the Iranian flag ship was under existing U.S. Treasury Department sanctions. Earlier on Sunday, Trump alleged that Iran had violated the ceasefire by firing at other ships transiting the waterway. The incident is sure to complicate planned peace talks in Pakistan this week, Eric McDaniel

and PR News the White House. "Police and Shree Fourth Louisiana are still trying to make sense out of one of the country's deadliest mass shootings in several years. They say a man killed eight children including seven of his own and wounded their mother and another woman early Sunday."

Shree Fourth Police, Corporal Chris Bortal, says they still don't understand why the shooting took place. This is a horrible act of violence, unlike anything we've ever seen in our city. This whole community is hurting, and as police officers, we want to do it. We can't support our community, but our officers are hurting.

The officers that responded in this scene, every one of them, we've never seen anything

like this.

This amount of evil violence that happened and that's what it is, it's evil, is something

that's disturbing and it's going to take a long time for this community to recover. Our audio comes courtesy of K.S.L.A. News 12 in Shree Fort. A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs and imported goods is scheduled to launch Monday in a six to three decision to Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration tariffs in February, officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection say, "Importers

and brokers can begin claiming refunds online starting at 8am Eastern." The Trump administration has released new data on the country's HIV/AIDS work overseas, and P.L.S. Gabriella Emmanuel reports, "These are the first numbers to show the effect of massive cuts and changes to the U.S. flagship global health initiative."

Officials are trumpeting the HIV treatment numbers, which show the U.S. supporting 20 million

people as of last September, about the same number as a year prior. Jeremy Lewin is with the State Department. The numbers are very, very good. But many HIV experts say that while treatment was prioritized, the rest of the delicate system for preventing and finding HIV cases has been severely disrupted.

Asia Russell is with the Advocacy Group Health Gap. These data show nothing less than a five alarm fire. She points to a 24% drop in frontline HIV health workers supported by the U.S. as well as big drops in HIV testing and medication to prevent at-risk individuals from contracting HIV.

Gabriella Emmanuel and P.R. News. And you're listening to NPR News. Federal prosecutors say a 44-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night in Los Angeles on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan. Sudan is in its fourth year of a civil war.

They say she will face charges that she broker the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition between Iran and the Sudanese armed forces. The defendant is in the Iranian National who became a permanent resident of the U.S. in 2016. Tens of thousands of runners and athletes will be in Hopkins in Massachusetts, Monday

to stand at the starting line of the 130th Boston Marathon.

Mr. Bondosteos, remember station GPH News has more.

30,000 participants are expected to make the 26.2 mile journey from the cozy New England town of Hopkins in to Boston's Copley Square for the Marathon residents of 123 different countries are set to participate in the big race. This year's Grand Marshall is Jack Fultz, who won the Boston Marathon in 1976 and what became known as the Run for the Hoses.

Temperatures in the 90s that year saw many runners drop out and spectators cool off runners with water hoses. For MPR News, I'm Mr. Bondosteos in Boston. The old timers, one at the box office this week, and the Super Mario Galaxy movie took

first place for a third week, bringing in another $35 million at North American theaters.

It's in an National Total is now reached $747.5 million. Project Hail Mary was in second bringing in $20.5 million in its fifth week into the theaters and the Mummy debuted in third. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. 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 the NPR's Co Twitch podcast and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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