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The U.S. military says it's disabled to additional Iranian oil tankers in the Strait of Formus.
“The Trump administration says ongoing attacks do not mean the ceasefire is over, NPR's”
Qilarans reports commercial shipping traffic through the region remains under close watch. Then Composted video on social media showing the massive Iranian tankers as their smoke stacks burst into flames from precision U.S. strikes. Senkham 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 Strait of
Formus, 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. Qilarans and Pyrenees President Trump says a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine will take effect this weekend, and PR's Danielle Kurt Slaybin reports the President
“says the pause and hostilities could be the beginning of the end of the war.”
Trump says in a social media post that the ceasefire will be Saturday, March 9th through Monday, March 11th, and that it will include a swap of a thousand prisoners for each country. Trump claims that he asked for the ceasefire and that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed.
He added that peace talks are continuing in the war. Zelensky previously proposed a truce. Last year, ending the Russia Ukraine conflict was a central goal of the Trump administration's foreign policy.
However, the administration this year has been occupied, first by deposing Venezuela and
President Nicolas Maduro, and now by the war, the U.S. and Israel are waging in Iran. Danielle Kurt Slaybin and Pyrenees, the White House. It was another big week for text talks on Wall Street, and P.R. Scott Horsley reports both
“the S.M.P. 500 index and the Nasdaq composite closed in record territory.”
Computer chip makers continue to see strong demand from data centers that's boosting shares of Nvidia than other companies with ties to artificial intelligence. The job market and computer infrastructure is not so strong. That's one of the sectors that lost jobs last month. Overall, U.S. employers added 115,000 jobs in April as the unemployment rate held steady
at 4.3%. Job gains last month were somewhat stronger than four casters had expected, which would allow the Federal Reserve to focus for now on fighting stubborn inflation.
For the week that out gained two tenths of a percent, the S.M.P. 500 rose two and a third
percent, and the Nasdaq jumped four and a half percent. Scott Horsley, and Pyrenees, Washington. This is N.P.R. News in Washington. France is escalating an investigation of tech billionaire Elon Musk and X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter.
N.P.R. is John Ruiz reports the case hinges on a swath of allegations, including child pornography, and unlawful collection of personal data. French authorities began investigating Musk and X last year focusing on algorithm manipulation and potential interference in French politics. The probe was expanded earlier this year after a complaint accused X of spreading hateful
racist and homophobic content, and now French prosecutors say they've opened a criminal investigation. The Paris Prosecutors Office summoned X and X-A-I, as well as Musk and former X-C-E-O-Linda Yack Arena threatening to issue warrants equivalent to indictments if they failed to appear for questioning.
In February, Musk called the investigation at that time a political attack, X did not immediately respond to a request for a comment. John Ruiz, N.P.R. News Google will pay fifty million dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of systemic discrimination against black employees. The lawsuit claimed black workers were routinely pushed into lower paying jobs and denied
opportunities for advancement based on racial stereotypes. Google denies wrongdoing but agreed to settle the case without admitting liability. The plaintiff say the settlement is a significant step toward holding one of the world's most powerful companies accountable and making clear that discriminatory practices will not be tolerated.
This week on the N.P.R. Politics podcast, President Trump has never been more unpopular
and the midterms are now less than six months away. So the intensity of opposition that's waiting for a lot of these Republican candidates in a general election is very, very high. The politics of a wartime economy this week on the N.P.R. politics podcast, listen on the
