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"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.

Mississippi Governor Tade Reeves has multiple tornadoes have been reported in Central and Western

Mississippi with a major one reported in Franklin County where damage is said to be widespread

with reports of people trapped inside damaged homes. President Trump warns that the U.S. will start bombing Iran at a quote much higher level and intensity of its leaders don't agree to a deal. But as MPR's Franco Ordonia's report, Trump also says a deal is very possible." "The president stopped the U.S. military operation, escorting foreign ships through

the Strait of Hormuz to see if negotiators can finalize and sign an agreement. Speaking at the White House, Trump insisted that the U.S. had won the war, and that it's now time to quote "get what we have to get." "We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it's very possible that we'll make a deal."

But he also acknowledged that they don't have a deal yet. "We've had some good talks before, as you know.

And all of a sudden the next day there, like, they forgot what happened."

He says there is no deadline for the talks, Franco Ordonia's NPR News. The U.S. and Iran are still officially in a ceasefire, but the U.S. military said today that it fired on an Iranian oil tanker, saying in a social media post that a fighter jet shot out the tanker's rudder in the Gulf of Oman. The military says the vessel was trying to breach the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.

"Ladest NPR, PBS Maris Pol, finds President Trump at the lowest point in his presidency, politically, impures to medical Montenarro says gas prices aren't helping." Gas prices are hitting pretty much everyone. I mean, unlike most other things, there's relatively no partisan divide here on this. For out of five Republicans, say gas prices are hurting their budgets, too.

Politically, it's having consequences for President Trump because 63% say those price increases

are his fault given the Iran war, and that includes about a third of Republicans.

According to the AAA Motor Club, the nationwide average, where a gallon of regular is

$4.53 in California, they averaged top $6 in gallon. New research shows patients are living longer on a pancreatic cancer drug, impures who can know Gucci has more. The drug, directs unrasive, is in a class of genetically engineered medicines known as "rass inhibitors."

It identifies and kills pancreatic cancer cells using a genetic mutation common to that cancer. The drug lengthens patients' survival from about two to three months on chemotherapy to eight or nine months on average, and has fewer side effects. Drugs in a similar class have transformed treatment of colorectal and lung cancers. The new data are so promising, the food and drug administration last week allowed the drug

maker, revolution medicines to expand access for pancreatic cancer patients prior to approval. You can do Gucci and PR news. This is MPR. A federal judge in New York has unsealed a purported suicide note that by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, it's a handwritten note and is said to have been found by Epstein's

former cellmate, a police officer turned convicted murder, who claims to have found it tucked

inside a book after Epstein's first attempt to kill himself.

The judge released a note at the request of the New York Times, which reported on it last week. Separately, commerce secretary Howard Lutnik was on Capitol Hill today appearing behind closed doors before a congressional committee investigating Epstein. Palinating insects, influence human health by pollinating crops and PRs on Lambert reports

on new research in the journal Nature, shows him that influence can be surprisingly large. Nature is good for human health, trees clear the air, wetlands filter water, and insects pollinate food, but moving beyond these generalities to specifics has been hard. A research team in Nepal zoomed in by tracing the links between pollinators, crops, and farmers. They found that insects are responsible for more than 20% of total vitamin E, A, and

full rate intake in these areas. As insects decline worldwide from climate change, habitat loss, and pesticide use, the researchers say human health could suffer. But the study also found that simple actions to help pollinators, like planning wildflowers, can help reverse these declines and keep communities healthy. Jonathan Lambert and PR news.

Japan's benchmark NK is leading the way in Thursday trading in Asia, the NK, up more than

five and a half percent, crossing 62,000 for the first time.

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