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U.S. attempts to force open the straight-of-war moves while also insisting that the U.S. Iran ceasefire is holding.

American forces won't need to enter Iranian waters or airspace. It's not necessary. We're

not looking for a fight. But Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and they're goods from an international waterway. Mohammad Bogger Kalibah, Iran's chief negotiator in talks with the U.S., accuses the

Trump administration of undermining regional security. More than 20 percent of the world's

oil and liquified natural gas typically passed through the straight-of-war moves. The disruption to supplies have sent fuel prices worldwide searching. The State Department has issued final separation notices to more than 200 U.S. diplomats who lost their jobs in a reorganization last year. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports their union and some in Congress have been fighting the

administration's action. Your reduction in forced separation will be effective today, says an unsigned email that went out to diplomats who had been in limbo for the past year. The American Foreign Services Association opposed the move saying the department did not follow its own rules for a reduction

in force and is now losing officers with rare language skills and decades of institutional

knowledge, even as it brings in new foreign service officers. One officer who received the notice, Maryam Safey writes that for the past year, she and her colleagues were still on the payroll and offered to help evacuate Americans at the start of the U.S. war against Iran. The Department declined that offer. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

Senate Republicans are proposing a billion dollars to fund security upgrades.

Her President Trump's ballroom project, even though Trump has been quoted saying the ballroom would cost taxpayers nothing. Trump and allies have been pushing the project since the recent attack at the White House course won in Stinner and Washington, authorities charged the suspect with attempting to assassinate the President.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has sued to stop the ballroom construction. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched new initiatives to win people in the U.S. off a popular class of any depressive medications whose NPR's reto-chattergy. Health Secretary Kennedy said that the new initiatives will include trainings by the substance abuse and mental health services administration or Samsung, for providers to help patients

steeper off of antidepressants like Zooloft and Prozac.

In June and July, SAMHSA will roll out national training modules on psychiatric medication risks on tapering and deep rescribing. He also said that the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services will expand access to alternative forms of treatment like talk therapy and family support services for children, read the strategy and PR news.

You're listening to NPR News. Racers are being decided in a handful of U.S. states, they include Indiana, which today's primaries will test the power of President Trump's retribution. He has endorsed challengers to seven Republican incumbent state senators who oppose his redistricting attempts.

Jessica Taylor, the Senate and Governor's editor for the Cook Political Report describes what it would say about Trump's influence if the incumbents hold onto their seats. While there's still a section of his base that will remain with him no matter what, getting them out to the polls and low turnout primaries has proved to be very difficult when Trump is not on the ballot.

Taylor on NPR's morning edition. Instructors at a university in Wisconsin are using a new augmented reality tool to help livestock producers see the world through a cow's eyes. Harvest public media's Hope Curl and Reports. Cow's have a much wider field of vision than humans, and it takes longer for their eyes

to adjust to changes in light, like going from a dark trailer to a bright barnyard. Workers and staff at meet plans can see these differences firsthand through the new augmented reality tool at the University of Wisconsin River Falls.

Program Manager Ashland Kirk says understanding a cow's perspective is essential to creating

a low-stress environment. "You're trying to imagine how they would experience it, but you don't know unless you see it like they would." The tool was created by a German software company, and it could help major food companies respond to growing consumer attention on animal welfare.

For NPR News, I'm Hope Curl and in River Falls, Wisconsin. This is NPR. On Consider This NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything for politics to the economy to the world, but every story starts with a question. NPR, we stand for your right to be curious to make sense of the biggest story of the day

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