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As the end to the U.S. and Iran cease fire agreement draws closer, President Trump
“is insisting that the U.S. has been successful in Iran, and that he's not under pressure”
to make a deal with Iran. He also slammed media outlets for "they're reporting on the conflict," and Piers Daniel Kurtz Laban has more. In an afternoon social media post, Trump framed the war in Iran now in its eighth week as short, compared to the U.S. as years-long involvement in past conflicts, including World
Wars 1 and 2, as well as the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. In a post shortly thereafter, he wrote, "I'm winning a war by a lot," and criticized multiple news outlets for reporting otherwise. President Trump tells Bloomberg that the ceasefire announced nearly two weeks ago expires Wednesday evening.
A U.S. delegation plans to travel to Islamabad soon for further peace talks, according to an official familiar with the plans. Daniel Kurtz Laban and PR news, the White House. Farmers in the Midwest are anxious, so over the on-again, off-again closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and PR's Kirk Sigler report's global fertilizer and diesel prices continue
to soar. Geopolitics is just the latest stress for farmers, like Justin Sherlock, Hukru, soybeans, and corn in North Dakota.
“He's going into his fourth-strait spring planting season in the red, the only way most”
farmers are still able to get a loan from the bank is because land prices are still high, and that's collateral. Farmers are pledging everything, betting the farm, literally, to go one more year, hoping we can make it. And that's not a good place for us to be in.
High diesel and fertilizer costs due to President Trump's Iran war, capping what's been a slow burn in the heartland since COVID, and then tariffs, with soybean prices staying, flat and inflation rising, Sherlock says something's got to give soon. Exitler and PR news, Fargo, North Dakota. Prosecutors in Los Angeles have formally charged singer, songwriter David, with Murder,
in connection with the death of Celeste Revis. The teenagers dismembered and decomposing body was found in the trunk of the performers apparently abandoned Tesla last year.
“LA County District Attorney Nathan Hockwind details the charges.”
These charges include the most serious charges that a DA's office can bring. It is first-degree murder with special circumstances. The special circumstances being lying in weight, committing this crime for financial gain, or murdering a witness in an investigation. Hockwind says the defendant whose legal name is David Burke, could be looking at a maximum
punishment of life without parole or even the death penalty. After Burke was arrested last week, his attorneys released a statement saying the actual evidence will show their client did not murder Revis. U.S. dogs have closed low with the Dow down slightly at 49,442. This is NPR.
FBI Director Cash Patel is suing the Atlantic for $250 million, Patel alleges the magazine
ran a malicious hit piece about excessive drinking that he says is false. The Atlantic says it stands by its reporting. The Boston Marathon's defending men's champion breaks a course record. Cheers erupted as Kenya's John Furrier crossed the finish line at two hours one minute and 52 seconds.
Sharon Locandy also from Kenya is this year's women's champion she finished the race in two hours 18 minutes and 51 seconds. While history was made in Beijing over the weekend, a participant named Lightning beat the human world record in the half marathon by nearly seven minutes, we say human world record because it was broken by a Chinese-made humanoid robot and Piers Jennifer Pate has more
from Shanghai. More than a hundred teams entered their robots in the half marathon to race alongside humans, though they were put in separate lanes to avoid crashing into each other.
It's the second such event.
Last year, most robots didn't finish the race. Some wiped out in spectacular fashion. This year, some humanoid still veered off. About 40% were autonomous rather than remote controlled. The winning humanoid was developed by Chinese smartphone maker honor.
A fast-writing robot may seem like a novelty, but some of the technology like the system to keep robots cool could transfer for industrial use. Jennifer Pate and PR News Shanghai. I'm Lakshbe Singh, and PR News. At NPR, we are here for your right to be curious about the world around you.
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