Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman, Iranian attacks in the S...
Hormuz and U.S. Naval Interceptions are complicating efforts to resume cease-fire
“talks in the war with Iran, and Piers Jain Iraq as details.”
President Trump on Tuesday, unilaterally extended the cease-fire with Iran, which had been due to expire today. He said to give Tehran time to present a new proposal. Iran, though, has demanded that the U.S. and its blockade of the waterway between Iran and Oman, that's vital to shipping and the world oil trade.
On Wednesday, demonstrating its control of the Strait, Iran sees two vessels that said were contravening maritime regulations, and escorted them to Iranian shores.
Iran also attacked a third vessel according to the country's semi-efficial news agencies.
The U.S. military said it intercepted Tuesday and oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. It's suspected of carrying Iranian oil, Jain Iraq and Piers News, Oman. Stocks opened higher this morning after President Trump extended the cease-fire with Iran, and Piers Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average jumped about 460 points in early trading.
Taker traffic remains stalled in the Strait of Hormuz and the U.S. benchmark for crude oil has climbed back above $90 a barrel.
“Retail gasoline prices showed little change overnight, triple laces the average price of regular”
gas is hovering just above $4 a gallon. Airlines are making adjustments in response to soaring jet fuel prices. Lufthansa says it's canceling some 20,000 European flights over the next six months. Stock and Boeing got a lift after the jet maker reported better than expected quarterly results, Boeing delivered 143 commercial aircraft during the quarter, as it continues to
recover from production problems with its popular 737. Boeing still losing money, but less than four casters had expected. Scott Horsley, and Piers News, Washington. A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring the display of the 10 commandments in every public school classroom in the state.
From Houston Public Media Andrew Schneider reports, the ruling has significant implications for long-established ideas of the separation of church and state.
The 5th Circuit judges ruled 9 to 8 that the Texas law does not violate the first amendment
to the Constitution. Either in its prohibition of government-established religion, or its protection for the free exercise or non-exercise of religion. Charles Rocky Rhodes teaches constitutional law at the University of Missouri. It seems based on the fifth circuits interpretation here, pretty much anything else that
the government wants to do to acknowledge religion is going to be acceptable. The ACLU and other organizations representing the plaintiff's challenging the Texas law say they anticipate asking the Supreme Court to reverse the fifth circuit's ruling. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
For junior voters have narrowly decided to let the state redraw its congressional district maps. This benefits Democrats seeking election to the U.S. Congress. President Trump urged Republican lead states last year to redraw their districts to help GOP candidates.
General states are now enacting new maps or face legal challenges. The moves mean it's hard to say which party may get an edge in upcoming elections. Supporters of psychedelic medicine are applauding President Trump's move to speed up research. The drugs are being studied for the treatment of mental health conditions such as depression,
Trump signed the order over the weekend, and Piers Will Stone has more. The President's executive order directs federal health agencies to prioritize research.
It sets aside $50 million in funding aims to speed up approval of the drugs and could
allow some terminally ill patients to access the drugs before they're approved. Alan Davis is a psychedelics researcher at Ohio State University. I do think it's remarkable to have a sitting president come out and promote psychedelics and to attempt to try to decrease some of the federal barriers that make it more difficult to study these compounds.
The president emphasized the psychedelic eye-beginn which comes from a West African shrub. While it has helped some veterans with PTSD and addiction, Davis says I begin has major safety concerns and there's much more data supporting drugs like MDMA and psilocybin. Will Stone and PR News. This is Earth Day.
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