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the U.S. will start bombing Iran at a "much higher level and intensity if its leaders
“don't agree to a deal." But as NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports, Trump also says a deal.”
"It's very possible." "The President stopped the U.S. military operation, escorting foreign ships through the straight 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, isn't it, right? And all of a sudden the next day there, like, they forgot what happened." And he says there is no deadline for the talks. Franco Ordonia's NPR News.
A new poll finds many Americans disapprove of the religious rhetoric used by the Trump administration, and PR's Jason D'Rose reports the survey also finds support for Pope Leo weighing in on the war with Iran.
The Washington Post ABC News Ipsos poll found that 87 percent of U.S. adults view Donald Trump
posting a picture of himself as Jesus negatively.
“This approval was even higher among white evangelicals, an important political base for”
the president. The poll also found that two-thirds of Americans have a positive reaction to Pope Leo urging people to contact their elected representatives in support of peace. The survey shows nearly seven in ten people view negatively, defense secretary Pete Higgseth, praying to God for, quote, "overwhelming violence of action against those who
deserve no mercy." The poll included more than 2,500 people and was conducted in late April. Jason D'Rose and PR News. New research in the New England Journal of Medicine shows patients are living longer on a pancreatic cancer drug, and appears at Yuki Naguchi reports.
The drug, directs and rasive, is in a class of genetically engineered medicine's known as ras inhibitors. It identifies and kills pancreatic cancer cells using a genetic mutation common to that cancer.
“The drug lengthens patient 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. Yuki Naguchi and PR News.
The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions. The DOJ alleges UCLA favored black in Hispanic applicants over white and Asian American students. The finding intensifies the Trump administration's scrutiny of college admissions. The U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action in admissions in 2023.
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U.S. health regulators have announced their first authorization of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes.
The FDA decision is a major shift that comes after months of appeals to the Trump White House from the vaping industry. Health groups have argued against it and have long said flavors drive under age vaping in the U.S. The deadly cruise ship outbreak of hauntivirus is a strain called Andy's virus, as NPR's
Gabriela Emmanuel reports its known to spread human to human. People are typically infected with hauntivirus after inhaling virus particles from roting urine, feces, or saliva. However, Andy's hauntivirus is known to be transmitted between people who are in very close contact.
Karri Debinke is at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. What they're doing is isolating people mostly in their rooms, like allowing them to go to kind of the open decks where, you know, the ventilation is good. The World Health Organization says personal protective equipment has been brought on board. Three passengers have died and there are five other patients, including one in a hospital
in South Africa, another in a hospital in Switzerland. Debinke says the risk to the general public is very low. Gabriela Emmanuel and PR news. Tree cover globally cools nearly half the warming from built up cities, but it's doing it more in richer cooler areas and less in hotter poorer areas where it's needed most.
Researchers found globally trees provide an average of a little more than a quarter degree Fahrenheit of cooling, though the study's lead author says quote trees won't save us from climate change. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. On NPR's wildcard podcast, Julio Torres says he doesn't need to prove himself to anyone.
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