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Live from MPR News, I'm Jail Snyder, despite an exchange of fire with the Ron...

"Yeah, it is. They trifle with us today. We blew them away. They trifle. They call that a trifle. I'll let you know when there's no cease. You won't have to know. If there's no cease fire, you're not gonna have to know. You just gonna have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran."

Trump speaking to reporters Thursday night while he was inspecting renovations being done on the reflecting pool outside the Lincoln Memorial.

U.S. military says that acted in self-defense when it intercepted Iranian attacks on three navy ships as they translated the straight-of-port moves,

and targeted Iranian military facilities, and it said it was responsible for attacking U.S. forces. Oil prices mean while rising, following Thursday's exchange of fire between the U.S. and Iran, Brent Cruz, the international standard, is up more than $1.50 and is now trading above $101 a barrel. The gain snaps three days of declines on reports that the U.S. and Iran were close to agreeing to a piece too. There are now eight cases of hunt-of-virus linked to a cruise ship that's off the coast of Africa as impairs Gabriella Manuel reports. Five of those have been confirmed in three passengers have died.

Public health authorities are tracking down passengers who previously disembarked and then flew to 12 or more countries around the world. From Turkey to Singapore to Denmark and the United States,

usually hunt-of-virus is transmit through rodent urine feces and saliva. However, this particular strain can transmit person to person. Yet it requires very close contact in a household or with a medical professional.

Maria Van Kirkoff is with the World Health Organization. This is not COVID. This is not influenza. It starts very, very differently. She says the risk to the general public is very low. However, there's no vaccine or specific treatment for the virus. Gabriella, Emmanuel, and PR news. Cyber attack took the widely used education platform Canvas offline Thursday in Paris to knock you met a report to hack seems to affect its schools across the nation. When students around the U.S. tried to access Canvas, they instead got a message that appeared to be from a hacker group known as shiny hunters.

The message warned schools if they don't contact the group to negotiate a settlement by May 12, the hackers would leak "everything".

The group claims it has access to data belonging to 9,000 schools and 275 million students and staff.

Colleges, as well as many K-12 schools, have released public alerts about the breach. The company that owns Canvas has confirmed a series of breaches over the last few days that have potentially released student names, emails, ID numbers and messages. The company did not immediately respond to NPR's requests for comment, but it is posting updates about the breach on its website. Chinakimetha and PR news. This is NPR.

Alabama lawmakers are preparing to vote on a measure that could change the state's congressional primaries. The latest move following last week's U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that weakened protections for minorities under the landmark voting rights act. State lawmakers could vote Friday on a bill that would allow new primaries to be scheduled if a court grants a state's request to lift an order.

That requires a second black majority district Republicans in Tennessee enacted new congressional districts on Thursday.

In 85-year-old French woman who was held in an ice facility for more than two weeks and released in April has recounted her ordeal in a radio interview. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that stories of treatment like this at the hands of the U.S. government have shocked Europeans. 85-year-old Maritares Ross May left France two years ago to move to Alabama and marry an American man she knew from the 1950s when he served as a soldier in France. She was in the process of getting a green card when her husband died of natural causes.

Ross May told French radio RTL how five ice agents banged on her door in windows at five in the morning handcuffed her and took her away without even letting her get dressed. She described being held with other immigrants in noisy crowded in dirty conditions that she called hell on earth. The U.S. government said it released her early because of her age and poor health. According to her children, Ross May arrived in France wearing a dirty prison uniform and in shock. Eleanor Beardsley and PR News Paris.

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