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President Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to shoot and kill any Iranian boats
“that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.”
Trump issued the post on social media shortly after the U.S. military seized another tanker it says is associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil. That ratcheted up a standoff with Tehran over the Strait, which has been mostly closed off for weeks, normally a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas passed through it. The GOP lead Senate has once again blocked a Democratic lead measure to limit President
Trump's war powers in Iran, and PR's Claudia Griselda's reports Democrats say they'll force the vote again until Trump officials publicly testify on the conflict. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says it's long past time for Congress to put a check on President Trump's led war the president said that the war would be over in a matter of days. We are coming up on the two month mark with no real end in sight.
Baldwin is one of several Democrats forcing the war powers votes to put Republicans on record while most Republicans remain loyal to Trump. Some have warned their position could shift at the war's 60 day mark at the end of this month.
“A routine annual paper about COVID vaccines by staff at the Centers for Disease Control”
and Prevention has been blocked, and PR's ping-wong reports on the unusual move. Every spring, after the winter peaks of cold and flu, the CDC reports on how well seasonal vaccines worked. For those who got them, how much they're likely were they to get hospitalized for to die from the disease.
The smart CDC staff published a paper on flu vaccine effectiveness and the agency's flagship weekly publication, and they planned to do the same for the COVID vaccine, but acting director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya held the COVID paper for weeks. Now the planned publication has been canceled.
The stoppage was first reported in the Washington Post and confirmed by Andrew Nixon, a spokesman
for the Department of Health and Human Services. Nixon cited concerns about how the paper estimates vaccine effectiveness, even though the CDC's methodology has been the same for years. Ping-wong and PR news.
“The Trump administration is reclassifying state licensed medical marijuana as a less dangerous”
drug, acting attorney general Todd Blanche signed the order today. And PR's bill chapel says it's in historic shift. This does not immediately change things for recreational marijuana. The new policy applies to two types of products, marijuana that's FDA approved or marijuana derived products that are FDA approved, and ones that are regulated by a state medical marijuana
license program. marijuana has long had the same schedule one classification as heroin and LSD, moving medical marijuana to schedule three puts it in the same category as some common prescription painkillers. This is NPR News Live in Washington.
Judges that the international criminal court have confirmed charges of crimes against humanity against former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. He's accused of deadly anti-drug crackdowns he allegedly oversaw while in office. A three-judged panel unanimously found there were substantial grounds to believe the ex-leader
was responsible for dozens of murders, first as a mayor in the Southern Philippines and later
as president. Duterte was arrested in the Philippines last year, proceedings have been delayed over concerns about his health. A new study suggests Europe's only wild monkeys have adopted an interesting strategy to help them stomach human food eating dirt.
NPR's Nate Rod has more. Living on the tour is late in rock of Gibraltar, barboring the cacts interact with a lot of humans. In a quick search of YouTube, we'll show you that many of those interactions involve them pill-firing food.
A new study in the Journal of Scientific Reports finds the mechanics which most often interact with humans are more likely to eat dirt, like soil and clay. The scientist called geophagy, or geophagy. A behavior researchers believe that helps the monkeys buffer their stomachs from the types of yucky guts we all get, after too much junk food.
Nate Rod and PR News A new study suggests the comment that passed by Earth from another star last year likely originated in a cold isolated corner of the galaxy, which has yet to gel into its own solar system. Comment three eye atlas is the only interstellar visitor to be confirmed and quite possibly
the oldest. The findings were published in Nature Astronomy. It's npr. You know, every day on up first npr's golden globe nominated morning news podcast, we
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