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and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane are expected to have more to say today about conditions in the straight-of-hormous. Despite an ongoing ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, President Trump says U.S. forces sank seven Iranian small boats as the Navy began efforts to guide commercial ships through the straight. Several vessels made it through yesterday. Iran condemned the U.S. actions and fired missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates.
One Iranian drone sparked a fire at a major oil port in the UAE leaving several injured. Russia and Ukraine say separate short-term ceasefires will take effect later this week. The suspension of attacks is to mark the anniversary of the end of World War II, as NPR's Charles Maynes reports from Moscow. Russia's defense ministry announced the ceasefire on orders of President Vladimir Putin. A ministry statement called on Ukraine to abide by the
“truce or face massive strikes on its capital key. The suggested Russian pause in fighting will”
extend May 8th to May 9th. As Russia and Ukraine hold separate events marking their shared Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. In response, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said Kiev would enter a ceasefire two days earlier and take further actions accordingly. All of this follows the Kremlin announcement. It will scale back its annual military parade on Red Square, citing fear of Ukrainian drone attacks, Russian air defenses have struggled to prevent.
Charles Maynes and Pianus Moscow. For women who say they were abused by the late-convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein testified at New York State Capitol yesterday, they called on state lawmakers to support legislation that seeks to help victims of sex trafficking as Samuel King with the New York Public News Network reports. The hearing room grew silent as the women described Epstein's alleged abuse in some cases across many years. Laura Bloomigese
has states can step in to help victims where the federal government has not.
Our justice system allowed a web that protected the powerful, the wealthy, and the well-connected.
People in institutions that profited from and covered up a pedophiles network. The proposed bill in New York would allow victims to collect punitive judgments from the estates of people convicted of sex trafficking and open a one-year window to file claims that are otherwise passed to statute of limitations. For NPR News, I'm Samuel King in Albany.
“The White House was placed on lockdown for a short time yesterday after the secret service”
shot and wounded in armed suspect near the Washington Monument. The deputy director of the Secret Service as a plain close officer observed the suspect while patrolling the White House perimeter. He says the suspect fled on foot before being shot a juvenile was also wounded. This is NPR News. Hotel bookings in the U.S. for the upcoming men's World Cup soccer tournament are running far below expectations. That's according to an
industry survey as NPR's Rafael Nama reports. The workup was seen as the big deal in the hotel industry. The tournament is being staged this summer across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, with 11 American cities hosting games. But an industry survey from the American hotel and lodging association shows that nearly 80% of hotels in host cities are saying
“booking some running below projections. For some cities, it gets even worse. Kansas City says that”
85% to 90% of hotels report booking are softer than anticipated. In fact, they are actually running even below a typical June or July. By contrast, hotels in both Miami and Atlanta report a much stronger number of bookings, Rafael Nama NPR News. The first World Cup matches get underway on June 11th. A spokesperson for Rudy Giuliani says the former mayor of New York City is now breathing on his own at a hospital near West Palm Beach, Florida. The 81-year-old remains in
critical but stable condition. Giuliani is being treated for pneumonia and has been taken off
a ventilator. The spokesperson says Giuliani also suffers from restrictive airway disease, from exposure to dust and toxins following the September 11th terror attacks, nearly 25 years ago. Wall Street futures are higher this morning down futures, are up 129 points. I'm Dave Madingly NPR News in Washington. This week on up first, gas prices just jumped 30 cents per gallon. It is single week.
With the state of Hormuz still closed, the global energy shock is only getting deeper. Listen, for overnight developments on Iran, plus primaries in Ohio and Indiana as mid-term
election season heats up. We'll have the very latest every morning. Enough first.
