Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
US military leaders, saying a ceasefire with Iran remains in effect a day after Tehran launched new attacks in the state of Hormuz, the United Arab Emirates, a key American
ally, said it came under attack by Iranian missiles and drones for a second day.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is pressing ahead with efforts to reopen the straight. "You can't have a situation in which the straights are close to everyone else, but they
“benefit from the piracy. That can't happen. That's why the blockade is in place, and”
that's why these sanctions are crippling them." Rubio says the fragile truce reached nearly a month ago appears to be holding its unclear whether U.S. military action can reassure shippers without re-agniting the conflict. The price of oil remains high, and Piers Scott Horsey reports on what that means for drivers heading into warmer months.
"Crued oil prices have come down slightly from their peak on Monday, but the U.S. benchmark
is still well above $100 a barrel, and investors are growing nervous that relief could be a long time in coming. Futures contracts for a brand oil to be delivered six months from now, or still priced above $90 a barrel. Retail gasoline prices in the U.S. continue to climb, triple-ase is the average price of regular gas, rose more than two cents overnight to about $4.48 a gallon. Scott Horsey and Piers knew it was Washington."
“President Trump's campaign to politically punish Republicans who stand in his way, moves”
to night through Indiana, where seven state senators face Trump-backed primary challengers in neighboring Ohio primaries for U.S. Senate and Governor will lock in the candidates for two major races with national implications, and in Michigan voters in a bell-weather district will fill a vacancy in the state Senate, a race with implications for the balance of power and a battleground state's legislature.
President Trump is bringing back the presidential fitness test, and Piers of Frank O'Donay's reports the award was given for decades until phased out during the Obama administration. President Trump signed a proclamation restoring the award that dates back to the 1960s, but was later changed to focus more on individual health and minimize competition. "We're bringing it back. We're bringing it back. My administration's working very hard to defend
America's chairs, athletic traditions, and Piers of values of excellence, and competitiveness
“to the next generation, so important." Details of how the new test will be conducted”
have not been released. The earlier version looked at students' performance in a number of exercises, including running and sit-ups and push-ups, those who scored above the 85th percentile were eligible for the presidential physical fitness award. Franco, O'Donay's and Piers News, the White House. People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels ahead of a late spring
storm that could bring Denver's biggest snowfall of the season. Higher elevations in Colorado could see up to a foot up to eight inches or possible in Denver. Snow in May is unusual for the region, but not unheard of. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Nearly 150 passengers in crew on a cruise ship are waiting another day for help off of West Africa. Authorities say an outbreak of the rare haunt of virus is killed three and
second at least four others. Officials say the ship might move to Spain's Canary Islands,
but Spanish officials say they haven't made a decision. Five major publishers filed a major class action lawsuit today against Mehta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. NPR's Chloe Veltman reports the plaintiff's art accused the tech company of building AI models from millions of stolen copyrighted works. The plaintiffs argue met a copied materials from notorious pirate websites to train its llama language model with Mark Zuckerberg's personal authorization
to do so. In a statement to NPR authors Scott Turo condemns meta for violating copyright laws. Quote, "The bold future promised by AI has been created with stolen words. The publishers and author are seeking statutory damages, a permanent injunction against further use of their works and an order requiring the tech giant to destroy all infringing copies of copyrighted materials. Metanotes that courts have found some training AI on copyrighted in material
can qualifies fair use and says it plans to fight the lawsuit aggressively. Chloe Veltman NPR News." A lone coyote stunned biologists and others by swimming to alcatrans Island earlier this year. Initially biologists thought it swam from San Francisco about a mile away, but now DNA analysis revealed it came from Angel Island, twice the distance. Park officials plan to relocate it because of Alcatraz's seabird habitat but the coyote hasn't been seen
since. This is NPR. I'm Jesse Thorne. This week on Bulls Eye Saturday Night Lives, Keenan Thompson. Ask him whatever you want. Just don't ask him to hang out late at the after party. There is like, "Oh, don't you want to like come to this next kind of thing?" And then, "Oh, that's right, you got it. Yeah, you can't. All right, well, we'll see you later, man."
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