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Iran's most senior leaders have yet to respond to President Trump's decision to indefinitely
“extend the ceasefire, but on social media and adviser to Iran's parliament speaker is”
calling the move a "ployed" by time for a surprise strike. Trump said in a statement Tuesday that he had agreed to a request from Pakistan, as he waits for a unified proposal from Iran. Florida Dury Biscarron spoke with Iranians in Turkey, near the Iranian border, who have mixed feelings about peace talks.
The train from Tehran takes about 24 hours. When people arrive in Turkey, they're disoriented and relieved. "The Hija name is," a woman named Ava, who asked not to be identified due to the risk of arrest in Iran, said it's just going to get worse for Iranians. If an agreement is reached with the US, we have not given the blood of 40,000 people
to go back to that life, she says, referring to the protesters who were killed during street demonstrations in January. The Iranian government says only 3,000 were killed. But another man, who participated in the protests but supports the government now, says he
“wants the war to end, so protesters can push for reforms within the current system.”
Friend Pyrenees, I'm Dury Biscarron, and Vaughn, Turkey." President Trump's nominee to chair the Federal Reserve was on Capitol Hill Tuesday for his Senate confirmation hearing, Kevin Worz, clash with Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts. "Don, Trump has made clear that he does not want an independent Fed.
In fact, he has said, and I quote, "Anybody that disagrees with me will never be fed
chairman." And he's made clear that you are his sock puppet, saying last week that interest rates will drop quote, "When Kevin gets in." Worz denied promising the White House that he would cut interest rates if he is confirmed. 18 members of the Congressional Democratic Women's Caucus are calling on the equal employment
opportunity commission to drop its lawsuit against a Coca-Cola Butler and distributor. Empires Andrew Issue reports the EEOC is suing the company over an off-site networking event for female employees." The lawsuit alleges that Coca-Cola beverages northeast, discriminated against male employees by excluding men from the event in 2024.
EEOC chair Andrea Lucas told NPR, "Such opportunities must be provided to everybody regardless of their sex." In an open letter to Lucas, the Democrats wrote that efforts to create forums for professional development are, quote, "a measured and necessary response to the stark realities women face in the workplace."
The female lawmakers noted that many of them have been the only woman at the table during meetings and experienced harassment on the job. They characterized the lawsuit as a waste of resources and said it undermines the very progress the EEOC has historically helped advance in reassure and peer news. "This is NPR.
Butters in Virginia have handed Democrats a victory. They narrowly approved a new Democratic-John congressional map in Tuesday's referendum. That's the latest redistricting battle started by President Trump last summer. Trump's southern poverty law center has been indicted on federal fraud charges, a Trump administration accuses a group of defrauding its donors, alleging the S.P.L.C. and properly
raised millions to secretly play informants to infiltrate extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klant. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch announced the charges Tuesday the S.P.L.C. says it will vigorously defend itself. Researchers in California have documented a surprisingly peaceful transition between naked
mole-rack Queens in Pierspink Hall reports on a smooth succession at Bucks at conventional wisdom." Naked mole rats are small rodents with almost no hair from East Africa where they live underground. Their colonies are matriarchal, with a single queen, and a few dozen others who take
on roles like guarding, food gathering, and caretaking. Getting a new queen is usually bloody business. Female rats do get out, dealing fatal bites with their big front teeth. Professor researchers at San Diego's Salt Institute for Biological Studies were surprised when the colony changed Queens peacefully.
Shinesh Abba Wartena is a veterinarian in post-doctoral fellow at Salt, and she calls it the Amigos colony. "Maybe they heard us, and they were like, "Okay, we'll show you that we're the Amigos and that we're friends." The Amical Bulltianzition, where the old and new queens live side-by-side, is documented
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