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for another round of talks with Iran on ending the war that an Iranian news service
“is quoting a top official who says Iran has no plans for the next round of talks.”
The ceasefire is supposed to expire tomorrow. Meanwhile, a temporary ceasefire in Lebanon is still fragile, and beer's cat-lawn store for ports from Beirut. In Israeli surveillance drone buzz loudly overhead in central Beirut for the first time since the ceasefire here began.
MPR asked the Israeli military about the drone but didn't receive an immediate response. In the south, where the Israeli military is still occupying a large swath of land, Israel has carried out a number of air strikes against what it called "terrorist activity." The agreement says Israel can continue military activity in self-defense. As below, claimed responsibility for an explosion that killed at least one Israeli soldier
over the weekend, saying the explosive device was planted before the ceasefire. Despite all this, the ceasefire agreement appears to be holding. Cat-lawn store, MPR News, Beirut.
The U.S. geological survey says a powerful, undersea earthquake has hit off Japan's
northeast and coast. Its magnitude was 7.4.
“Officials are now warning of tsunami waves.”
The initial waves have started to arrive. Some residents are being told to flee the northeast coast of Japan because the next waves are expected to be higher. Police in Shreeveport, Louisiana, say a gunman killed several members of his family and wounded two women, including his wife yesterday. MPR's Joe Hernandez has more.
Eight children were killed. Two other people were hit by gunfire. The Shreeveport Police Department said Sunday this was domestic in nature, but didn't give
any details about a motive or let-up to these events.
MPR's Joe Hernandez reporting, police say seven of the deceased victims are the gunman's own children. Another was a cousin. Police say they shot and killed the gunman after he fled the scene and charged a vehicle. Starting today, importers who paid tariffs that were later found to be illegal can ask for
refunds. MPR's god-horstly reports, customs officials, have set up an online system and an effort to streamline the process. The Supreme Court ruled back in February that President Trump had overstepped his authority in ordering double-digit tariffs on virtually everything the U.S. imports, a specialty trade
court, later order the government to refund all the money it collected with those tariffs, $166 billion in all. Since then, customs officials have been scrambling to set up a computerized system where importers can ask for their money back without having to go through a lengthy court process, that system goes live Monday morning.
For the more complicated refund requests, we'll have to wait for a later phase of the program, but most are eligible today, refunds are expected to be paid in 60 to 90 days. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In Virginia voters can go to the polls tomorrow for a special election, they're being asked
if they want to redraw the commonwealth's congressional maps. Supporters want to change the map to favor Democrats and Congress. This comes after President Trump asked Republican-led states last year to change their maps to favor GOP candidates. Tens of thousands of athletes will soon gather at the starting line of the Boston Marathon.
For member station GBH, Esteban Bosteos reports this is the Marathon's 130th event. The 30,000 participants are expected to make the 26.2 mile journey from the cozy New England town of Hopkinson, to Boston's coply square for the Marathon, residents of 123 different countries are set to participate in the big race. This year's grand marshal 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 Esteban Bosteos in Boston. The private space company Blue Origin launched a reusable booster rocket into space yesterday
from Florida. It was carrying a communications satellite, but Blue Origin mission managers say the rocket did not place the satellite in the right orbit. The reusable rocket came back safely to Earth, but the satellite is too low. It will be taken out of orbit.
Blue Origin is the space company created by Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos. This is NPR. Oh, hey there, I'm Brittany Loose and I don't know, maybe this is a little out of pockets
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