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The U.S. military says it is disabled to more Iranian oil tankers, and P.R.'s cruel
“Lawrence reports the Trump administration says the ongoing attacks do not mean the ceasefire”
is over." SENTCOM posted video on social media showing the massive Iranian tankers as their smokestacks burst into flames from precision U.S. strikes. SENTCOM says the tankers were empty and approaching Iranian ports despite the U.S. blockade.
For its part, Iran continues to effectively block all commerce through the straight of her moves, stopping oil, gas, and fertilizers shipping for a significant part of the globe. This comes after Iran and U.S. forces traded attacks this week, but the White House maintains that a four-week-old ceasefire continues and therefore congressional approval is not needed for the war.
Iranian negotiators haven't announced a reply to the latest U.S. proposal to end the war, and the demands of both sides still appear far apart. Now the law and SENTPIRE news. Alabama's Republican Attorney General is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to lift federal court order requiring the state to use a race-based congressional map for the state's
upcoming congressional primaries. It comes after Alabama's Republican governor tentatively approved new congressional maps to favor Republicans, part of a broader redistricting push after the Supreme Court removed race as a consideration, NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. Democrats fought the legislation pushed through by the Republican Supermajority in the Alabama
legislature. Democratic State Senator Roger Smitherman says it erases 60 years of electoral gains under the Voting Rights Act.
And that is so disturbing and so wrong, the way that one-third of the people in this state
will be in disenfranchised, denied an opportunity to have representation. But Republican Garland Gadget, the president pro-tev at the Alabama Senate, says "Race is the wrong focus."
“I think the focus is exactly what the court said, which should be about a partisan line”
on about race. And that's the end, what they're focused on is one, the race, where we're focused on partisanship. Debbie Elliott NPR News, Montgomery. The unemployment rate held steady, here's NPR Scott Horsley, health care, restaurants, retailers, and delivery companies all added jobs last month, while factories and the federal
government cut workers. LinkedIn economists Corey Cantanga says it's encouraging the unemployment rate state low, just 4.3%, but the opportunities to find a job are still limited.
We still see that there's not a lot of momentum, and job seekers feel that when we ask
our members how they feel about their ability to get and hold a job, that is that historic lows. His wages in April were up 3.6% from a year ago, but much of that gain is being eroded by inflation, especially with a sharp jump in gasoline prices. Scott Horsley, MPR News.
Washington. It's NPR.
“The defense department has released more than 160 records related to UFO sightings, and PR's”
built chapel reports more files aren't to be released in the coming weeks. The documents range from cold war reports of mysterious flying discs to recent sightings of elliptical objects floating in the air. Those and other records of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, the new term for UFOs, are now being shared with the public.
In one file, a woman who says she's familiar with US military aircraft and drones, described seeing a strange metallic ovaloid floating above a tree line in 2023. She also said that if other people with her head and seen the same thing, she wouldn't have spoken up. President Trump has promised unprecedented transparency for such records.
He posted on social media that the release will allow the public to decide, quote, "What the hell is going on?" Bill Chappell, in Pyreneus. The planned weekend closure of an early 10-mile stretch of Atlantis, very busy eye 285, known as the Atlantis perimeter has been postponed.
Transportation officials said they made the decision just hours before the Friday night closure, along the busily traveled west side of the interstate, because of the possibility of bad weather officials have not announced a new date for the week work. The National Football League and its referees union have ratified a new seven-year labor agreement that will avoid the league hiring replacement officials.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the League and the Union did agree to several initiatives they say will improve gain of officiating and provide more training for the referees in the off season. This is NPR News from Washington. Support for NP.
This week on Consider This, every day Americans are feeling it more, a wartime economy. Energy prices in March went up over 10%. Energy flows into everything else that we buy. The big picture on inflation, housing, and prices that aren't coming down, that's on Consider This.
