"Live from MPR News, on trial Snyder, serious storms are moving through the m...
country tonight.
“Local television is showing video of a massive tornado, and says storm has had rather”
homes have been flattened near the city of Init, and northern Oklahoma near Vance Airforce
Base. Fatalities and injuries are unclear, but KOCO TV is reporting that authorities in Garfield County have launched search and rescue operations for people who may be trapped beneath debris. The National Weather Service has a threat of sphere, whether through the weekend stretches
from Oklahoma to Minnesota. President Trump says he does not want to be rushed into making a deal with Iran. "I want to make the best deal. I could make it deal right now. Do you know that if I left right now, we had a tremendous success.
We'll take them 20 years to rebuild, but I don't want to do that. I want to have it everlasting." Trump took questions today in the Oval Office, where his Rayleigh and Lebanese ambassadors
“met for a second time in a week, and announced a three-week extension of the ceasefire”
between Israel and Hezbollah. The initial 10-day ceasefire was due to expire on Monday. Trump says he expects to meet at the White House with its Rayleigh Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Lebanese President Joseph Aon, in the next couple of weeks. Earlier today, Trump ordered the Navy to quote "shoot and kill any boat trying to lay
minds in the straight-of-war moves," shipping through the waterway as virtually stopped over the fear of mines and Iranian attacks and pierced Jackie Northam reports. "There are no reliable numbers as to how many mines are in and around the straight-of-war moves, but the threat of one hitting a ship is enough to keep some vessels anchored. The Washington Post reported that a classified Pentagon assessment shared with Congress
says it could take up to six months to clear the straight, and that such an operation wouldn't begin until after the war. President Trump dismissed that assessment and said in a social media post that US minesweepers had already started clearing the straight.
Meanwhile, the US Navy boarded a second ship carrying oil from Iran that was bound for
China. Jackie Northam, in PR news. "The Justice Department is reclassifying medical marijuana as a last-stangerous drug that a Department says the move will pave the way for more research and to safety and use some medical treatment at St. PR's Ryan Lucas reports."
The Justice Department says it is immediately rescheduling FDA-approved and state licensed marijuana from what's known as a schedule one drug, the same group as heroin, to a schedule three drug, like Tylenol with coding. The move does not legalize marijuana under federal law, but it does recognize that marijuana has medical applications, and opens the door to research the effects of cannabis.
The Department is also ordering a new hearing to begin in late July to fully reschedul the drug. The move by the Trump administration comes after years of debate in Washington about reclassifying marijuana. Ryan Lucas and PR news, Washington.
"And you're listening to NPR news." Police in Baton Rouge say Thursday shooting inside the mall of Louisiana was not a random act of violence, but a disagreement between two groups. One person was killed in five-born wounded when gunfire broke out in the food court. mafia, parish officials say at least three of the victims are high school seniors.
Baton Rouge police say five people have been taken into custody for questioning that the Department is appealing to witnesses for any video of the shooting. Routine childhood vaccination rates are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. And PR's Jonathan Lambert reports a major push by the World Health Organization and others
delivered more than one hundred million inoculations to kids and dozens of countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic threw a major wrench in routine childhood vaccination programs for diseases like measles and polio. In 2021, more than 25 million children missed at least one vaccination. As clinics closed and resources were diverted to fighting the pandemic. In response, global health leaders launched the big catch-up in 2023.
It was a major effort to get vaccines to kids aged one to five, who'd missed doses. As the three-year program winds down, the WTO reports that it reached more than 18 million young kids in 36 countries, roughly in line with the original goals. But millions of kids are still missed by vaccine programs, roughly 14 million in 2024. In the face of declining foreign aid worldwide, officials worry vaccination rates could
worsen again. Jonathan Lambert and PR News. I'm Jyle Snyder, this is MPR. Every episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute Podcast starts with a question about how culture shapes our lives.
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