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President Trump says the U.S. made progress on efforts to keep the straight of
horror moves open during talks with Iranian officials today. "As long as they respect this, we're not going to have any trouble. We have total control of the straight." "So the mechanism?" "We have a navy that had a blockade.
“I think the blockade was more impactful than dropping bombs if you wanted to.”
It was like they call it the steel wall. Nobody got through. I don't ship. I've got through. I was able to go to Iran.
They got through.
We wanted them to go through.
And we could set that up again." The interim agreement to end the war was supposed to reopen the channel. Dozens of ships passed through it over the weekend, but the main route is still closed. Vice President J.D. Vance returned to Washington today, Washington today after negotiations in Switzerland.
Vance says Iran agreed to allow in UN nuclear inspectors, but a spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry told a state news agency that Iran has made no new commitments for inspections. The Supreme Court has further weakened the voting rights act in seven states and appears Hansella Wong reports the order comes out of a case about protections for disabled voters and voters who are unable to read or write.
“The Supreme Court is leading in place a lower court ruling that strikes down a key tool”
for protecting voters with a disability or an inability to read or write. Rolling applies to Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Across the country, lawsuits by voters and advocacy groups have been the main way of enforcing the voting rights acts protections for voters with a disability or an ability to read or write.
The last year ruling by a federal appeals panel agreed with a novel argument by Republican state officials in Arkansas that only the U.S. Attorney General has a right to sue to enforce that protection. The Supreme Court has now refused to review the panel's ruling. The move comes about two months after the Supreme Court's conservative Supermajority
weakened the voting rights acts protections against racial discrimination and redistricting. On Zeele Wong and Pierre News, Washington. A federal judge has blocked and attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walls and other state officials calling in an effort to harass and retaliate against them.
The administration wanted to investigate whether Walls and other officials obstructed or impeded law enforcement during Trump's immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities. One time federal reserve chairman Alan Greenspan died this morning at the age of 100 and Pierre Scott Horsey has more. Former colleagues at Greenspan brought rigorous analytical discipline to monetary policy
making and helped establish the credibility that remains one of the Federal Reserve's most important assets. Greenspan was an accolite of the libertarian Iron Rand and a reluctant regulator who believed bankers self-interest would prevent them from excessive risk. He acknowledged the shortcomings of that hands-off approach only after risky behavior
produced a great financial crisis two years after he left the Fed in 2006. Scott Horsey and Pierre News, Washington. U.S. stocks closed mixed today after oil prices eased. This is NPR news. UK voters chose to leave the European Union in the Brexit referendum 10 years ago tomorrow.
The vote shattered a half-century project to get closer to the European continent 52 percent
of the British voted to leave the block, it led to the most dramatic shake-up of the UK economy and society since World War II. Rush's Warren Ukraine has had broad ecological consequences among them are air and water pollution and uncontrolled wildfires. NPR's Nate Rott reports on a new study that finds it's also changed animal behavior.
Before Rush's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, scientists had set up game cameras in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. A massive area surrounding the site to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Northern Ukraine. And with little human interference, wildlife has flourished. Then, during its invasion, Rush had moved in stage troops through the air, fighting
a curtain, and the game cameras kept recording. Scientists now say the disturbances caused many mammals to change their behaviors. Dear species, red foxes and moose were all less active during the fighting, especially at night, suggesting that warfare can have broad consequences on ecosystems even after the fighting has stopped.
Nate Rott and PR news. The Transportation Security Administration says there's been an uptick and international travelers discovering and trying to smuggle ranch dressing in their carry-on bags after visiting for the World Cup. The agency cheered on the dip-blomacy and advised the superior comment should be checked
on the way home. This week, on sources and methods, we unpack the memorandum of understanding signed by President Trump, which he says will pave the way for a formal peace deal with Iran.
“But if this really is the beginning of an end to the war, who won and who lost?”
Listen to sources and methods as we talk through with NPR reporters in Beirut, Tel Aviv, and Cairo.
