Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Iran says it has no plans to participate in peace talks with the U.S. this week.
“A two week ceasefire is set to expire Wednesday.”
Deribuskehrin is in Van, a Turkish city near the Iranian border and spoke with Iranians there. In a train station waiting room near the Iranian border, one woman told us she's hopeful that the U.S. and Iran can define a compromise to end the war. She asked NPR not to share her name due to the risk of arrest when she returns to Iran
for speaking to foreign media. "What's up, Miguel?" "Anything that can bring peace back to the people in any way possible," she sets. At the same time, she said she hopes the Iranian government ends its crackdown on internal critics.
Others do not want the war to end. Another woman, who asked not to be recorded, said she's nervous about the talks. She said Iranians are willing to receive an entirely burned and flattened Iran, but an Iran that does not have the Islamic Republic ruling it. Frontier News I'm Deribuskehrin, and Vaughn Turkey.
Midwestern farmers are anxious over the on-again off-again closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as fertilizer and diesel prices soar. And here's Kirk Sigler has more. "Geo politics is just the latest stress for farmers like Justin Sherlock, who grows soybeans and corn in North Dakota.
“He's going into his fourth straight 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 cost 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. "Singer's songwriter, David Burke, pleaded not guilty in a courtroom today and LA to murder charges in the death of a 14-year-old girl missing for a year.
Steve Futterman has more." It began as a missing person investigation, immediately the focus centered on 21-year-old David Anthony Burke, LA County District Attorney Nathan Hawkeman.
“On April 23, 2025, Celeste went to Mr. Burke's house in the Hollywood Hills.”
She was never heard from again. Last September, it turned into a murder investigation, or dismembered and decomposed remains. We're found inside of a far registered to Mr. Burke." Prosecutors believe the motive was to prevent Celeste Rivas from revealing possible criminal acts involving Burke, attorneys for Burke say he is innocent.
For MP or news, I'm Steve Futterman, in Los Angeles. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The U.N. says Gaza needs more than $70 billion for reconstruction and recovery, and that
around $26 billion is needed now to rebuild critical infrastructure, including hospitals, water
systems, and agriculture. A new assessment by the U.N. World Bank and the EU shows more than $370,000 in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks, displacing more than a million people, many now live and makeshift tents made out of plastic tarps. Israeli troops still occupy Gaza and have leveled even more homes allegedly because Hamas
has tunnels running underneath them. Tens of thousands of athletes took to the roads in and around Boston for the 130th Boston marathon today, as the bamboo steels of member station GPH has more. Can you as John Corrier broke the course record with the time of two hours, one minute and fifty-two seconds?
That's over a minute better than the previous record, and at first, he wasn't aware he'd made history. Each of the top three finishers on the men's side ran times that were better than the previous Highmark. Corrier repeated as champion, as did Sharon Locetti, who set the women's division course
record last year. Marseille Hug picked up his ninth victory in the men's wheelchair division, and Eden Rainbow
Cooper won the Women's Wheelchair Race for the second time.
For NPR News, I'm Esteban Bustiles in Boston. U.S. features contracts of trading higher at this hour, all three major indices up about one tenth of a percent, and Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. Right now, we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known.
I'm David Remnick, and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening, alongside politicians and thinkers like Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, and so many more. That's all in the New Yorker Radio Hour, wherever you listen to podcasts.
