"Live from MPR News, I'm Jyle Snyder.
Rough weather and Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves has there have been multiple reported
“tornadoes throughout Central and Western Mississippi, local media reporting down trees”
and people trapped, and official with the State Emergency Management Agency says there are reports of hundreds of structures damaged. President Trump is seeking to pressure Iran into reaching a deal to end the war, warning that the U.S. will start bombing again if Iran does not agree. Speaking to reporters that the White House Wednesday, Trump said a deal is very possible.
"They want to make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it's very possible that we'll make a deal." A ceasefire officially remains in effect, but the U.S. military said it disabled in Iranian flag tanker in the Gulf of Oman Wednesday, saying it was trying to breach the U.S.
blockade of Iranian ports. Economists were in the financial fallout from the Iran war, spreading beyond the gas bomb, as disruptions to shipping freight and oil markets drive up the cost of household products.
“Experts say those costs could keep rising, even if tensions ease soon, impures Winston-Johnston”
reports. "Prices are going up because many everyday household products rely on plastics and petrochemicals. Jason Miller is a supply chain professor at Michigan State University." What we've seen as an example is plastic prices are going up. That's going to mean the plastic that is used to wrap it.
Your food will be more expensive. That means that the paper board that snacks are coming in is going to be more expensive. Miller says products like paint, soap, and WD-40 could also cost more in the months ahead. And he warns those price increases may not ease anytime soon. Ships have already avoided the straight-up for moves for nearly 10 weeks, creating supply
chain backlogs that could take months or longer to untangle. Winston-Johnston and P.R. News, Washington. "The Trump administration tried to freeze or resent billions of dollars in 2025 that were destined for science agencies, researchers and scientists who lost funding for the National
“Institutes of Health, say they're still struggling, even though some of the money has”
been restored in Piers' K to Riddle reports." Standing in his empty laboratory at Harvard, Sean Eddie explains, "Before his grant from the NIH was cut from the National Institutes of Health, he was looking for the origin of life." "My sort of dream is that by comparing modern genome sequences, we can reconstruct computationally
evolution back as far as possible, at least to the last common ancestor of life." Eddie lost funding last year, and like many in his position, says the NIH has not been transparent about where things stand with his grant. Eddie had to cut most of his staff, Eddie says he plans to continue looking for the origin of life on his own.
Katie Riddle, in Piers' News. "And you're listening to NPR News." attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center are preparing to appear in federal court in Alabama.
Today's hearing is the first, since the S.P.L.C. was accused by the Trump administration
of defrauding donors in indictment obtained by the Justice Department, a little more than two weeks ago, accuses the S.P.L.C. of failing to disclose that donor funding would be used to pay in four men's inside extremist groups, C.S.P.L.C. tonight's wrongdoing. The Governor of Oklahoma has signed a bill into law joining a growing majority of states that have already passed restrictions on cell phones and public schools.
Oklahoma's band is now permanent, as in Piers' Caden Mills reports. The new law will go into effect on July 1st, requiring school districts to adopt their own policies prohibiting the use of cell phones during the school day. Like several other states, Oklahoma piloted a temporary one-year ban for the recent school year.
That ban is now permanent. During lunch, we have to like sit and talk to each other we can't just whip our phone out and just be anti-social and on our phone all the time. High school senior Ethan Atkerson thinks banning cell phones has been a good thing. It feels like more of a community, you know, like everyone knows everyone and all that sort
of stuff. Overall, he says he's grateful for the ban. Caden Mills and PR news, Warner, Oklahoma former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani out of intensive care, but remains hospitalized near Palm Beach, Florida. Giuliani spokesman says he's now breathing on his own after being taken to the hospital
with pneumonia placed on a ventilator. The spokesman says he's being monitored as a precautionary measure Giuliani is 81 years old. This is in PR news.
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