Live from MPR News, I'm Jail Snyder, despite an exchange of fire with Iran Th...
President Trump says the cease fire remains intact. "Yeah, it is. They trifled with us today. We blew them away. They trifled.
They called 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 going to have to know. You just didn't have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran." Trump speaking to reporters last 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 NATO-US Navy ships as a transit at the Strait of Hormuz, and targeted Iranian military facilities that it said was responsible for attacking U.S. forces.
Saudi Arabia posted a budget deficit of $33.5 billion for the first quarter of the year,
"It appears I, if a trial where you reports it's unclear how this will affect Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's pledge to invest up to a trillion dollars in the U.S." Saudi Arabia had projected a budget deficit for this year of $44 billion. But figures released by its finance ministry this week show a deficit reaching three quarters of that by March.
“The kingdoms had to grapple with budget deficits for several years running as it spends”
heavily on new industries like AI and projects to create jobs for young Saudis. In past months, it's had to cancel some of the Crown Prince's most outlandish projects, like a 100-mile-long towering city in the desert called The Line. And while oil prices are higher now because of the Iran War, Saudi Arabia's exporting three million barrels less a day now due to Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
I Abel-Troy and Pyrenees, Dubai. Now, to Tennessee, where Republican lawmakers have passed a new congressional map that likely
eliminates the state's only democratic seat, this is the first state to pass a new map
after the Supreme Court all but struck down the 1960s voting rights act. And Pyre's Ashley Lopez reports. The newly passed map breaks up a congressional district that includes Memphis into multiple districts. This dilutes the voting power of the city's mostly black population, which large leave
votes for Democrats.
“Various Republican-led states in the South are weighing redrawing districts since the Supreme”
Court overturned Louisiana's congressional map. The Court's conservative majority took issue with a district that was drawn to create a second majority black district. Louisiana is expected to redraw its map soon as well, which could add to the growing number of safe seats for Republicans. The party now has a slight edge heading into this year's midterm elections, Ashley Lopez
and Pyrenees. Alabama, the next southern state that could act state lawmakers preparing to vote on a bill today that would allow new primaries to be scheduled if a court grants a state's
request a lift in order that requires a second black majority district.
Alabama Republicans want to use a map drawn up in 2023 that the court rejected. This is NPR. Artificial say the risk to the general public is low, but they are seeking to prevent the potential spread of hauntivirus after an outbreak on a cruise ship killed three people, while several others have fallen ill.
The authorities across four continents are seeking to trace passengers who disembark before the outbreak was detected and anyone in close contact with them since the ship's operator said Thursday, all 30 passengers who left a ship on the remote south Atlantic island of St. Helena have been contacted. The Canadian province of Manitoba has declared a public healthy emergency over HIV infection
rates. The declaration was made by Dr. Brent Russen, the province's chief public health officer, who says in 2024, Manitoba saw an infection rate of 19.5 cases per 100,000 people. This is around 3.5 times higher than Canada's HIV infection rate of 5.5 cases per 100,000. In 2021, there were 142 reporting new cases. Last year, that number exploded to 328.
So far, this year's numbers are in line with 2025. Russen says 70% of the increase is due to injection drug use, but also homelessness, mental health issues, and an increase in sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections. The declaration is seen as a way to increase testing for HIV and also to bring attention to the issue.
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