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President Trump says Iran is intent on making a deal to end the war but that they are negotiating
“on fumes," and Piersmar Elias and reports.”
The threat was a familiar one from President Trump, either Iran, "gives us what we want, or we'll finish them off." The president and his party are under pressure to end the war, which is sent gas prices soaring. That's her Republican candidates in the midterm elections.
But when the president was asked why he hadn't moved faster to end the war, given the financial pain it's causing Americans, he said this. "I don't care about the midterm." The president also laid out another red line for Iran. He says he wants the straight-of-war moves to be open without any tolls.
He said the straight was "international waters that no single country should control." Mar Elias and NPR news.
"About one in five pregnancies now result in adverse outcomes like gestational diabetes,
every eclampsia and pre-term births, as NPR's Mariga Doi reports new research in the journal.
“"Jama suggests the risks can be reduced by moving more in sitting less."”
A society has become more sedentary. Researchers wanted to know how all that sitting affects pregnancy outcomes. So they recruited 500 women to wear activity trackers throughout their pregnancies. They found that people who spent more than 10 hours a day sitting had twice the risk of pregnancy complications, compared to those who sat about 7 hours a day.
Here's Leeds study author Bethany Barone Gibbs of West Virginia University. "It really was Dr. Long sitting, so sitting more than an hour at a time. That was more strongly associated with having these complications." She says even just standing or moving around a bit regularly helped cut the risks. Mariga Doi and P.R. News.
"More people in the U.S. are going hungry now than did during the pandemic six years ago, and P.R.'s Scott Horsey reports on a new survey from the New York Federal Reserve Bank." The New York Fed periodically asks Americans if they're having to skip meals, rely on food
“donations, or receiving federal assistance to buy groceries.”
Results from the most recent survey show higher levels of food insecurity now than during the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic triggered double-digit unemployment. In February, one out of ten families missed meals for lack of food, but hunger was twice as common among families earning less than $50,000 a year. The results highlight what observers have called "the K-shaped economy," with rich household
surviving while poor families struggle. The agriculture department, which oversees the food assistance program, halted its own research on food insecurity last year. Scott Horsey and P.R. News, Washington. Senator's are introducing a bipartisan bill to regulate payments to college sports players,
limit them to one free transfer over their careers, and restrict coach movement during the season, Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Maria Cantwell are trying to overcome more than a year of an action in Congress since a lawsuit settlement started allowing players to be paid. This is NPR News. A Michigan summer arts camp in boarding school where Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of meeting
at least two of his victims will tear down a lodge that once bore his name. The interlocking center for the arts scrubbed references to the late millionaire sex offender
after his first conviction in 2008, Epstein attended the camp as a teenager in 1967, and donated
more than $400,000 to the school. NASA is unveiling plans for a more permanent presence on the Moon's surface, and P.R.s William Jones reports. The newly released rendering some NASA share astronauts, moon buggys, and hopping drones spread across the Moon's surface.
At an event in Washington to unveil the next stage of the Artemis program, Dr. Lori Glaze who leads NASA's exploration missions, says their eyeing a more sustained lunar presence. With Moonbase, Artemis astronauts will stay longer, explore farther, and conduct the kinds of science that advances exploration itself. It's a multi-decade effort, and NASA says the aim is to develop a lunar habitat at
the Moon's South Pole by 2032. His Carlos Garcia Galam, who's heading up the mission. Then we'll be able to say, "Hey, we're permanently here, and we're not giving it up." The hope is that this Moonbase will provide a hub for astronauts to work alongside robots to study the Moon, and also help prepare for future Mars missions.
William Jones, N.P.R. News. Taylor Swift's fiancé and three-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelsey is becoming a minority investor in the Cleveland Guardians Major League Baseball team. Kelsey is a native of Cleveland. He'll play his 14th NFL season with the Kansas City Chiefs this year.
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