Line from NPR News in Washington, I'm Core of a Coleman, Iran has seized two ...
the Strait of Hormos and Iranian news reports say it has attacked a third.
“This comes as President Trump extended a ceasefire with Iran indefinitely.”
In Iran, hard-line supporters of the government celebrate it as the possibility of peace talks dimmed. Dury Bouskehrin reports. "In a video released by the Associated Press, masked men in Army fatigues ride what appears to be a missile launcher through the streets of Tehran, chanting death to America.
It was a celebration of Iran's decision not to send negotiators for more peace talks with the US. There were also, though, small acts of defiance against the Iranian government, a young woman in the capital Tehran who asked not to be named due to the risk of arrest for speaking to foreign media.
Described hearing someone playing in accordion in an alley near her home, Bouskehrs have been banned under the government's wartime rules. "I hadn't seen any street musicians anywhere in months," she said. But last night, we heard the sound of life.
“For MPI News, I'm Dury Bouskehrin, and Vaughan, Turkey."”
Senator Republicans have introduced a budget resolution to fund immigration enforcement agencies. It's a first step in a lengthy process aimed at ending a record-breaking shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, and Piers Barbara Sprunt reports. For months, congressional Democrats have said they will not fund immigration enforcement agencies
unless reforms are implemented, following the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of agents at protests earlier this year. Republicans are looking to a budget tool called reconciliation to fund DHS along party lines, bypassing the need for democratic support.
The budget resolution has an expected final price tag of about $70 billion dollars, which
should fund the agencies through President Trump's term. The President has given a deadline of June 1 for the bill's passage, but the process is long and complicated. Barbara Sprunt, and Piers, the capital.
“The civil rights group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has been indicted on federal fraud”
charges. The organization tracks hate groups, and Piers Jacqueline Diaz reports the Justice Department says, "An investigation into the group goes back years." A grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for years of alleged fraud. The civil rights group is facing charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money
laundering, acting attorney general Todd Blanche says the organization paid in formance to infiltrate hate and extremist groups, and that includes groups like the KKK. Blanche said the group then used banks to hide these payments. The Southern Poverty Law Center's interim CEO, Brian Care, says the group is being targeted by the Trump administration, and it plans to defend itself from the accusation.
The Justice Department says the investigation into the nonprofit is ongoing. Jacqueline Diaz and Pyanus, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal officials have charged a Louisiana man in connection with last weekend's deadly shooting in Shreveport, authorities alleged Charles Ford provided the weapon used by a gunman to kill eight children's seven of whom were the gunman's own.
The gunman died after a confrontation with police. Federal authorities say Ford has been charged with lying to a federal agent about the gun and being a felon in possession of a firearm. An experimental new gene therapy is continuing to show strong promise for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of genetic deafness, and Piers Rob Stein has the story.
Researchers infuse the experimental gene therapy into the ears of 42 babies in adults born in China with the rare form of genetic deafness. The gene therapy was designed to restore a protein necessary for hearing that the patients were missing. In a paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers report that gene therapy appears
to restore hearing to 90% of the patients. The quality of the hearing varied, but many gained the ability to hear normally. While this form of deafness is very rare, researchers are hoping to develop similar gene therapies for more common forms of deafness. Rob Stein and Piers News
NASA says that its Mars rover known as Curiosity has found organic molecules never before
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