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The U.S. military says it has disabled two more Iranian oil tankers, and PR's Quil Lawrence
“reports the Trump administration says ongoing attacks do not mean the ceasefire is over.”
SENTCOM posted video on social media showing the massive Iranian tankers as their smoke stacks 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 fertilizer 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.
Quil Lawrence and PR News.
New York State is set to ban ICE agents from wearing masks, and prohibit state and local officials from formally cooperating with immigration enforcement, and PR's Jasmine Garst reports.
“The bills include a ban on ICE agents covering their faces, on ICE using local jails”
to house detainees, and on searching New Yorkers' homes, hospitals, churches, or schools without a warrant signed by a judge. Immigration and enforcement is a federal authority. Democratic-led states like California and New Jersey have also tried to prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks and have been sued by the Justice Department.
California's ban was struck down earlier this year. Tom Homan, President Trump's borders, has said, "If New York passes this legislation
"or going to flood the zone, you're going to see more ICE agents than you've ever seen
before." Jasmine Garst and PR News, New York. The online academic platform canvases back online after a date of reach during the height of college final exams, and PR's Rachel Treesman has this update. Students and professors at thousands of universities lost access to their course materials,
communications, and grades during the Canvas Outage on Thursday.
“That prompted a number of schools, including the University of Illinois, Penn State, and”
UT San Antonio, to postpone some final exams, or cancel them altogether. Many are now urging students to be extra vigilant about potential fishing attacks. Here's advice from Rachel Tobak, the CEO of Social Troops Security. You feel lightly paranoid and make sure you use another method of communication to confirm that message really is who they say they are.
She also recommends that everyone use a password manager and turn on multi-factor authentication, Rachel Treesman and PR News. The National Redistricting Battle over congressional seats has swung toward Republicans, a Virginia Court invalidated a democratic redistricting effort that could have gained additional seats for the party, meanwhile Republicans in Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana, pressed ahead
with redistricting efforts this week after the Supreme Court weakened voting rights act protections. This is NPR. Initial results from elections in England show significant losses for Prime Minister Kier Starmer's Labor Party.
Starmer says he takes responsibility for what he called very tough results, but insists he won't resign after the votes, which are seen as an unofficial referendum on his leadership. The results reflect a fragmentation of British politics with labor losing votes to reform UK and the Green Party. The Defense Department has released more than 160 records related to UFO sightings, as NPR's
bill chapel reports more files will be released in coming weeks. The documents range from Cold War reports of mysterious flying disks 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 U.S. 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 "what the hell is going on." David Attenborough, the world's most famous wildlife presenter, is celebrating his 100th birthday today, the BBC's hosting a party at Royal Albert Hall, and cinemas are playing his nature films over 70 years.
His documentaries have brought the wonders of nature into homes worldwide. Attenborough has also raised awareness about climate change and other environmental threats. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. 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.
