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Iran is suspending talks with the U.S. over the U.S. is really war.
“If Israel doesn't stop its expanding invasion of Lebanon, this came shortly after Israel”
warned residents of a suburb in Beirut to evacuate had a planned air strikes. That suburb is a stronghold of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group. On social media President Trump said he spoke to leaders of both Iran and Israel and says he secured pledges to end the fighting in Lebanon. Meanwhile, shipping analysts say the U.S. military has helped dozens of commercial vessels
through the Strait of Hormuz and recent weeks, in Piers' Catlaun store reports. In the past three weeks, around 70 commercial ships have translated a kind of pathway through the Strait that the U.S. Navy created, off the coast of Oman, away from the Iranian coastline. It's dangerous for ships to pass near Iran without obtaining Iranian approval right now. As negotiations have stalled to reopen the Strait and then the war.
But this alternative and still risky route doesn't mean that shipping through the Strait is resuming. The number of ships that have managed to pass through with U.S. coordination in recent weeks is still very low compared to early February, before the U.S. Israeli attacks on Iran.
“The conflict with Iran and the closing of the Strait has significantly disrupted global energy supplies.”
Catlaun Storef and Pair News, Washington. In Ukraine, at least 14 people are dead after Russia attacked overnight with a barrage of missiles and drones. Doesn'ts of others were injured. While Ukraine has been able to intercept a large number of those drones, ballistic missiles are still a major vulnerability for the country,
and its president has been asking allies for more air defense missiles to counter them. Six states are holding primary elections today, California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota. They're competitive primaries for governor in California and Iowa, and in both states, the Democratic Party sees a roadmap to take control of Congress, and Pair's Sage Miller reports.
California voters will select which two candidates for governor will move on to the general election in a non-partisan primary.
But it's also the first time in decades that Democratic voters haven't had a clear front runner.
As part of the nationwide redistricting fight sparked by President Trump's push for more GOP seats, California is slated to pick up five new Democratic seats. Iowa Republican voters will pick their nominee for governor, but Democrats are hopeful they can flip the office, come November. Iowa Democrats will also pick the U.S. Senate candidate who they believe has a shot at winning the competitive seat,
Sage Miller and PR news. Royal Financial Markets Asian markets ended in mixed territory by the close. The NECA in Japan down three tenths of a percent, hanging sang up two and a half percent. This is NPR. In Iowa police say at least six people are dead and up mass shooting at several locations in Muscatine, about 50 miles southeast of Cedar Rapids.
The authorities say appears to have been a domestic dispute. The 52-year-old suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot, as officers confronted him nearby on a trail along the Mississippi River. The police chief says four of the victims were shot and killed in one house. One person was found at another house and another person at a business.
President Trump has thrown doubt on the safety of Tylenol during pregnancy, saying it could be linked to conditions like autism and ADHD. As Imperial Salinas Simmons stuff in reports, a major medical society released an updated position statement, finding that using Tylenol during pregnancy is safe.
The Society of Maternal Feetal Medicine represents physicians that care for patients with high risk pregnancies.
For many years, a Cedar Minifin or Tylenol has been the first line treatment for pain
and fever in pregnant patients. When President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asserted that it was actually unsafe, the medical association began a new assessment of the evidence. On Monday, the Society concluded that a Cedar Metaphin is safe to use in pregnancy. The new position statement points out that untreated fever and pain comes with health risks,
especially early in pregnancy, and that patients shouldn't try to tough it out as President Trump had suggested. Selina Simmons-Duffin and PR News. It was Feetal's contract, so trading in McSteratoria at this hour,
on Chineen Herbst and PR News in Washington. This week on NPR's NewsMakers, Main Senate candidate Graham Platner, a working class Democrat leaning into one message that the political system is rigged to favor the wealthy.
There's only one direction. We need to be pointing fingers. And that is up. It's not left and right.
“Can that message help Democrats take the Senate in this year's midterms?”
Graham Platner, this week on NPR's NewsMakers.
