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through the Strait of Hormuz, but its online message today does not specify new terms for letting commercial vessels through the major shipping route. NPR's Abitrawi says Iran announced its proposal today after President Trump paused a U.S. military effort to guide merchant vessels through the Strait. The operation called Project Freedom began Monday with the U.S. Navy guiding just two U.S. flag
merchant ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but not before several Iranian revolutionary
guard's speedboats were sunk in. Iran then fired at the U.S. Navy and launch missiles at NPR the United Arab Emirates threatening a month-long ceasefire. Defense Secretary Pete Haxes said on Tuesday the operation was "a gift from the U.S. to the world to secure commercial shipping." But later that day, Trump declared the operation paused. He said he'd quote "great progress
toward a final deal with Iran, but set a blockade on Iranian ports remains in place."
“And ending that blockade is a key Iranian demand.”
"I Abitrawi and Pair News, Dubai." And President Trump has just said that Iran wants to make a deal. His comments came during a military, "Mother's Day event at the White House." The Prime Minister is in Indiana and Ohio yesterday reaffirm that President Trump still wields heavy influence over the Republican Party while Democrats remain energized heading
into the midterm elections.
And Pierre Steven Fowler has this analysis. Last year, a handful of Republican Indiana State lawmakers blocked a push to redraw the state's congressional boundaries. A slate of Trump back challengers pushed out five of the seven incumbents targeted in the primaries.
Another race is currently separated by just three votes. In Ohio, there weren't competitive primary contests for Governor or U.S. Senate, but both are expected to be expensive and contested in November's general election. One reason? It's rising unpopularity.
“Another is Democratic enthusiasm, where every state that's held a primary so far this”
year has seen a surge of Democratic turnout compared to prior midterms. Steven Fowler and Pierre News. New studies out on the tsunami that sent water more than 1,500 feet up the size of an Alaskan fewer last year, and Pierre's Rebecca Hershire has a latest details. The tsunami in Tracy Armed Fjord near Juno happened early in the morning last August.
No one witnessed it firsthand. Now, a study conducted by more than a dozen scientists finds that the so-called Megasunami was extremely powerful. It destroyed trees and other vegetation hundreds of feet up the steep sides of the fjord.
The study was published in the journal Science. The wave was triggered by a landslide next to a glacier, which is rapidly melting because of climate change, making the area unstable. The authors warn that more researchers urgently needed to predict when and where such tsunamis will happen in the future.
Rebecca Hershire and Pierre News. This is NPR. Tennessee Republicans have unveiled a proposed congressional map that would crack Memphis's Shelby County into multiple districts in an effort to eliminate the state's loan that remaining Democratic-held seat currently, Tennessee's represented by eight Republicans
and one Democrat. Comer Secretary Howard Letnik is testifying on Capitol Hill in a closed-door meeting about his links to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Members of the House are questioning him about his contact with Epstein in the years after the finance years, 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Letnik maintains he did not have any relationship with his former neighbor. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suing the New York Times. The EEOC alleges a newspaper chose not to promote a white male employee because of his race or sex. Here's NPR's Andree issue.
The lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that the New York Times passed over the white male employee for a vacant position as deputy real estate editor last year. According to the complaint, the employee was not given a final round interview, despite extensive experience that matched the requirements of the job. Eventually, the job went to a multiracial woman, who the EEOC said, "Lact experience
in real estate journalism." The EEOC contends that the hiring decision was influenced by the newspaper's goal to increase the number of black and Latino employees and women in leadership. In a statement, the New York Times called the allegations politically motivated and wrote "neither race nor gender play the role in this decision, we hired the most qualified candidate."
That's Andree issue reporting. It's NPR News.
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