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President Trump's press secretary, Caroline Levitt said there is no set deadline for the
“ceasefire with Iran that the President extended on Tuesday.”
>> The President has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal unlike some of the reporting I've seen today.
Ultimately, the timeline will be dictated by the Commander-in-Chief in the President
United States. It also only said the White House has only President Trump knows how long the ceasefire extension will last. Tensions are again increasing in the straight-of-port moves. Iran has attacked at least three ships near the straight and seize two.
Iran says the attacks are retaliation for the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and for the U.S. firing on and seizing in Iranian ship. The Navy's top civilian is leaving his post, Pentagon abruptly made the announcement when today about Navy Secretary John Fialant, without giving a reason for his departure. Fialant is the latest top defense department leader to step down or be ousted during
President Trump's second term.
“The Senate and session tonight, Republicans have introduced a budget resolution to fund”
immigration enforcement agencies. It appears Barbara Spont reports on the first step in a lengthy process aimed at ending a record breaking shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. >> 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 by passing the need for Democratic support.
The budget resolution has an expected final price tag of about $70 billion, which would
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 Sprent and Pernie is the capital. >> The Israeli army says it has gifted a new statue of Jesus to a Christian Lebanese village.
After one of its soldiers was filmed smashing the former one during the military incursion. Piers Eleanor Beardsley reports the incident shocked many Israelis and deeply embarrassed the idea. >> The footage shows the soldier striking the statue's head with a sledgehammer. The military confirmed the video and said it has removed the combat soldier and sent its
attempt to 30 days of military detention. The incident occurred as the Israeli army moved into southern Lebanon to route out Iran-backed militant group as Bala, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the soldier's actions unacceptable and said Israel deeply regrets the incident. But left-leaning newspaper Ha'arat accused Israeli leaders of condemning the kind of behavior
that they themselves have fostered, it said the statue got more sympathy than Palestinians in Israel, Eleanor Beardsley and Pernie who's Tel Aviv. >> And you're listening to NPR News. Authorities say Wednesday's chemical leak at a plant in West Virginia killed two people in some more than 20 other stay area hospitals.
Emergency officials say workers were preparing to shut down at least part of the facility when the leak occurred causing a violent chemical reaction. While fires in the southeast are intensifying, some of the biggest places are burning along Georgia's coast and around Jacksonville, Florida. They burned over 33 square miles in Georgia and destroyed more than 50 homes in Florida.
Cruiser fighting more than 130 wildfires that have burned some 39 square miles. Early humans lived in small communities across Africa for millennia, climate influence where they settled, along with disease, according to new research, reporter Ari Daniel has more on the study. >> A team of researchers wondered whether malaria, a long time lethal disease carried by
mosquitoes may have influenced where early humans lived. So they took a set of climate models spanning the last 74,000 years, overlaid where mosquitoes would have lived and compared that to where people were, based on archeological evidence. The result was clear, says University of Cambridge Evolutionary Ecologist Andrea Manica. >> Basically, they were just not persisting in the areas where malaria would have been problematic.
>> Then some 15,000 years ago, when the sickle cell anemia mutation arose, which can offer protection against malaria, people's avoidance of the regions with the disease began to break down. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. >> And I'm Jail Snyder, this is NPR News.
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