"Li from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman," Iran says its examining a ...
from the Trump administration to end the war. It says it will pass its response to the mediating country Pakistan. The proposal has not been made public. This comes as the U.S. military disabled and Iranian flagged oil tanker yesterday, an air force jet fired on the tanker's rudder after the U.S. warned it was violating the
U.S. blockade on Iranian ports.
Big oil companies have been reporting their earnings for the first quarter, and that includes
the start of the war. NPR's Camilla Dominozki reports, major producers have not indicated they planned to boost oil production. "Exxon is sticking with its planned production growth. Chevron is keeping output flat in the Permian basin in the U.S., and not chasing big expansion
in Venezuela yet. Here's Chevron's E.O. Mygworth." "We could hit the gas and begin to grow it again, but I don't know what the future looks like
“for right now. I think it's really steadiest she goes."”
Investors have been pushing companies to return money as dividends rather than sink it into new production. Some smaller independent oil companies are making a different calculation. Diamondbacks, CEO, and it's earnings this week said, "If this isn't the time to grow now, then I don't know when it is."
Camilla Dominozki and PR News. Alabama's legislature is poised to adopt congressional districts that favor Republicans. This is after last week's Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines. And PR's Debbie Elliott reports, civil rights activists, aren't fighting back.
Pro-testers have descended on the Alabama State House in Montgomery as lawmakers meet an special session designed to change the state's political power structure. The activists refused to move from a state-house hallway Wednesday, in a party-line vote the Alabama House approved a plan to use maps drawn in 2023 that were struck down by federal
“courts for discriminating against black voters.”
Afterwards, the GOP caucus issued a statement saying they're doing their part to ensure Congress stays red. Debbie Elliott and PR News Montgomery. Millions of people with Medicare will soon be able to get popular weight loss drugs for $50 a month.
Jackie Fortier with our partner KFF Health News has more. Starting July 1, GOP won medications like Wugovians that bound will be available to some
Medicare and rollies for weight loss for the first time.
To qualify, people need a doctor's note and Medicare Part D. They also need to be clinically overweight, plus have a condition like heart disease or pre-diabetes. There are catches. The $50 copay won't count toward the annual out-of-pocket limit. The pilot also expires in December, 2027, with no guarantee that the drugs will be covered under traditional Medicare after it ends.
That's Jackie Fortier reporting. You're listening to NPR. About 1,000 structures are damaged after tornadoes tore through southern Mississippi overnight. Authority-say-rescuers are searching wreckage to find any trapped people. There are no reports of deaths or serious injuries.
There are tornado watches posted across the southeast this morning from Alabama to Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Russia has fired more than 100 drones at Ukraine, as that war continues, and P.A.S. Hanapala Marancob reports from Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia continues to violate the ceasefire proposed by Ukraine.
Over the past two days, the Russian military continued to strike civilian targets in Ukraine, as well as energy and railway infrastructure, killing about 30 civilians and wounding more than 100 others. It launched 102 drones, 92 of which were shot down or jumped by air defense forces. According to the latest report from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the effectiveness
of air defense against drones over the past months has been nearly 90%. The biggest challenge remains repelling ballistic missile strikes. Patriot systems can counter them, but Ukraine lacks missiles for these systems. Hanapala Marancob and Pernus Kiev. Former New York City Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been moved out of intensive care
in a Florida hospital. Folksman, for Giuliani, says he was recovering from pneumonia and he will stay in the hospital for now. I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News.
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