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President Trump has backed down from resuming the bombing campaign against Iran, Trump now extending the U.S. Iran cease fire until peace talks conclude. "Here's MPR's Frank Oerdonias." The President said Pakistan, which is mediating the talks, asked him to hold off on more attacks, but that the U.S. would stick around, and that its naval blockade of Iranian
ports in the state of armies would also continue. The Iranians called the U.S. blockade
“an act of war, and signal that's why it refused to show up for the latest round of talks.”
Control of the straight has become a point of leverage in the war. Iran is maintained a tight grip on the straight for weeks, sending oil prices skyrocketing.
The U.S. has tried everything to get the critical waterway reopened, from repeated aggressive
threats against Iran to now launching its own blockade against ships heading into or out of Iranian ports. Franco, Oerdonias, and Pyrenees, the White House. The southern poverty law center has been indicted on federal fraud charges, acting attorney general Todd Blanch announced the charges Tuesday. The S.P.L.C. is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred
by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the S.P.L.C. was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
“The Trump administration alleges the S.P.L.C. raised millions to seek really pay-and-for-remist”
and infiltrate extremist groups. S.P.L.C. says it will vigorously defend itself. Buters in Virginia boosted the Democratic Party's chances of gaining control of the house in this year's mid-term elections. They narrowly approved a Democratic redistricting plan in Tuesday's referendum.
The vote may not be the final word the State Supreme Court expected to rule on the plan. Fires are spreading across North Central Florida. They're connected to the states ongoing extreme drought from Member Station W.U.F.T. so F.A.D.K. reports. Fires from two neighboring counties in North Central Florida have merged into one.
Burning thousands of acres. Meanwhile, multiple counties in the area have five or more active fires. Luty Bond, a wild fire mitigation specialist from Wacassas, a forestry center, since the fight is far from over.
“People ask me, "Well, one of these fires is going to be put out. They're not.”
They're going to last for weeks. They're going to last for weeks." Bond also says firefighting agencies are pooling resources from around the state, and the Florida National Guard has now arrived to help. For NPR News, I'm Sophia Dinka and Gainesville, Florida.
This is NPR. Florida Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfless McCormick is leaving Congress. She resigned her seat Tuesday, just minutes before a committee was set to hold the hearing on her punishment for ethics violations.
Cherfless McCormick also faces federal, criminal charges accusing her of stealing five million
dollars in coronavirus disaster relief funds she denies any wrongdoing. Florida's attorney general investigating the AI chat bot chat GPT and its parent company OpenAI, and connection with a shooting at Florida State University last year that killed two people and injured five others. Prosecutors say the alleged shooter sought advice from artificial intelligence, as Tristan Wood,
of member station WFSU reports. State Attorney General James Offmire says an initial review of chat logs shows that the accused gunmen consulted chat GPT for advice, including asking the chat bot what type of gun to use, what Emma went with it, and a time to go to campus to encounter a higher population.
"My prosecutors have looked at this and they've told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen we would be charging them with murder." An open AI spokesperson called the FSU shooting at tragedy, but says the company is not responsible. The company maintains chat GPT gave factual responses to questions with information that
could be found broadly across public sources on the Internet. For NPR News, I'm Tristan Wood in Tallahassee. "Asian Cheers, mixed and Wednesday trading after President Trump said he is extending the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely oil prices reading above $98 a barrel." "You know, every day on up first NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast,
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