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President Trump says the Iran ceasefire is now on life support.
“Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Monday that Iran's response to his proposal”
was in his words on believably weak, and he dismissed it as garbage.
"And frankly, the leaders have been killed at the first level, second level, and half
in the third level, and then they come back and they want to negotiate, and they give us a stupid proposal." "It's a stupid proposal." The Iranian state media satirons demands included end to the blockade reparations and sovereignty over the straight-up removes.
Iran's chokehold over the straight-fueling high gas prices, the President said Monday that he would suspend the federal tax on gasoline to ease the burden on Americans, but he would need congressional approval. President Trump has to China Tuesday, and he's taking a sizable business delegation with him, including some of the biggest names in corporate America.
In Piero-Strandewitz reports on the trip during a period of relative calm in the U.S.-China trade relationship.
“According to the White House, more than a dozen top U.S. executives will be on the trip”
this week, including Apple's Tim Cook, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortbeg, and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX fame, Musk also co-led Trump's Department of Government efficiency early in his second term. There are a finance series in the group, too, from BlackRock, Blackstone, City Group,
and Goldman Sachs. This trip will be the first to China by a U.S.-President since
Trump visited during his first term nearly nine years ago, and while geopolitics loom large, especially the war in Iran, the parade of executive signals and interest in promoting business and potentially striking deals despite a festering trade war. John Ruich and PR News Washington. Alabama's attorney general launching a civil investigation into the southern poverty
law center's fundraising efforts, Andrew Yager reports fund WBHM and Birmingham that the announcement comes on the heels of a federal indictment against the organization. The Department of Justice is accusing the SPLC of fraud, saying it deceived donors by using
“money to pay informants inside extremist groups at monitors.”
Now, Alabama's attorney general, Steve Marshall, says he sent a subpoena to the SPLC for
records about those payments.
He wants to determine if state laws were broken regarding deceptive trade practices or charitable organizations. SPLC officials have denied the federal charges, saying law enforcement has long known about the program to pay informants and response to the state's actions, and SPLC spokesperson wrote in the statement they have received the subpoena and are reviewing it.
For NPR News, I'm Andrew Yager and Birmingham, Alabama. "I'm a grads' assing the Supreme Court to halt to ruling blocking new congressional district and Virginia, they filed an emergency appeal of a ruling by the state's top court that invalidated a ballot measure that would have given Virginia Democrats an additional four winnable house seats to the November mid-term election."
This is NPR. President Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the federal emergency management agency, Hamilton is a former Navy seal who tromp fired last year when he was acting director, Hamilton was ousted after he appeared to break with Trump on the agency's future. The European Union says it will sanction Israeli settlers over their violence against Palestinians
in the West Bank, and Piers Eleanor Beards reports Hungary's new government stop blocking the measure. Today, we reached a political agreement to sanction Israeli extremists settlers said the EU's top diplomat Kaya Callis on X, the measures which include asset freezes and travel bands are against three main settler organizations and their leaders.
One of the groups worked to halt and disrupt humanitarian aid into Gaza. The measure will also target members of Hamas, which the EU designates as a terrorist organization. Seller violence in the occupied West Bank has increased dramatically since the 2023 war in Gaza began, and Israel has expanded settlements at a rapid pace.
According to Israeli peace advocacy group, peace now, more settlements have been approved in the last year than in the last two decades. Eleanor Beards Lee and Piers News, Paris. British Prime Minister Keer's starmer under renewed pressure to step down for a ministerial aid step down Monday, and more than 70 of Starmer's Labour Party lawmakers publicly
called for his resignation after labor's poor showing in last week's elections. During a speech Monday, Starmer urged labor to stick with him, saying a party leadership contest would only bring chaos. I'm Trial Snyder, MPR News. Shipping our world can be hard to see.
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