"Live from MPR News in Washington," I'm Core of a Coleman, the status of peac...
the U.S. and Iran is unclear.
“President Trump wrote online today, Iran is violated the current ceasefire several times,”
but didn't offer details. The ceasefire is supposed to expire tomorrow in Iran, and Pierce Cat Lansdorf has more on the talks. President Trump has said that he is sending a delegation to Islamabad in Pakistan, where those talks are supposed to happen.
But as of now, Iran has not confirmed that it will be participating. Yesterday, Trump said that a ceasefire extension between the U.S. and Israel and Iran is "highly unlikely," but also said that he's not under pressure to make a deal, and that one with Iran will happen "very quickly." Meanwhile, Iran's parliamentary speaker said Tehran is "prepared to reveal new cards
on the battlefield."
And Pierce Cat Lansdorf reporting.
Poles are open in Virginia for a special election, voters are deciding whether to redraw the state's congressional districts in a way that would favor Democrats. President Trump wrote online this morning urging Virginia voters to reject this. But last year, he urged Republican-led states to redraw their districts to send more GOP candidates to Congress.
“Remember, station VPM, John Khalil reports on the Virginia effort.”
Democrats started the push to get this on the ballot in October, and it's been a bitterly contested and expensive election. The campaigns for and against redistricting Virginia have received tens of millions of dollars from opaque political nonprofits, and have employed campaign tactics that have confused voters. Early voter turnout is higher than many observers expected for an April election,
but there's no clear outcome. The only polling out there is very close. In Virginia is relatively purple. Virginia could be one of the last states to take aside in the national redistricting contest before the midterms.
Florida lawmakers are scheduled to take up redistricting in a special session next week. Friend Pyrenees, I'm Chad Khalil, and Richmond Virginia. The Justice Department wants the Michigan County that includes Detroit to hand over ballots from the 2024 election.
“DOJ officials claimed Detroit has a history of fraud and more.”
From member station WDET, Quinn Klein-Filter has more. Michigan officials say the few examples of fraud cited by the Justice Department out of millions of votes cast are not connected to the 2024 election. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is also running for governor as a Democrat, told MSNow she believes President Trump is trying to manufacture fear among voters.
DOJ is just so fall seeds of doubt about who won those elections, but to try to interfere with the counting process which was already tried by the way in Detroit in 2020, and otherwise try to interfere with the legitimacy of our secure elections. Michigan's Republican controlled state senate found no evidence of widespread or systemic fraud in the 2020 election.
For NPR News, I'm Quinn Klein-Filter in Detroit. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. The White House says Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRimer has resigned to take a job in the private sector. She had been investigated on allegations of misconduct in office, and PR has not independently verified the allegations.
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is vowing to fight a new deal. It would let the satirical website the onion take over his far-right media company InfoWars. If the deal is approved by a Texas judge, it would force Jones out. And PR's Tobias Smith reports, the onion wants to turn InfoWars into a parody of itself. The deal is backed by the families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting, who sued Jones for defamation after he spread lies that the families fake the deaths of their children to boost support for gun control. One of their attorneys Chris Maddie says, under the deal, the onion would mock Jones's brand
of conspiracy theories on his own platform. When InfoWars finally goes dark, the machinery of lies
that Jones bill will become a force for social good. Jones immediately accused the onion of trying to steal his identity and asked his followers to help support his fight by buying what he said may be his last run of InfoWars' merch. Even if the deal is approved, Jones would still be able to broadcast from a different studio under a different brand name. Tobias Smith and PR News. Both the state of Maryland and the Justice Department have sued the water authority in
Washington, DC. This is over a mammoth sewage spill in January into the Potomac River, the lawsuit claims DC water failed to keep sewage pipes in good repair. I'm Corvaculman and PR News. Every story from shortwave and PR science podcast starts with a question. Like, why do we have nightmares? How does AI affect my energy bill? At NPR, we are here for your right to be curious
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