Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, President Trump appears to have added a ...
to the agreement signed Wednesday with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, and
“a social media post Thursday, Trump said the deal would require Saudi Arabia to normalize”
relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. White House press secretary Caroline Levin was as why that wasn't included in the initial announcement to the deal.
The President is always the final deal maker, as you know, and this is something that
he has mentioned on numerous occasions going back. I can provide you with those statements, and he has said, if they don't join the Abraham Accords, the deal is off. So we'll continue to have those conversations with our Saudi counterparts moving forward. Saudi Arabia has long rejected establishing diplomatic ties with Israel absent a pathway toward
Palestinian statehood. On Capitol Hill, the House went one way, the Senate, the other way on curving President Trump's Iran war power, the House resolution directs Trump to halt military action unless he obtains congressional approval. It passed on a 214-2008 vote with four Republicans joining Democrats and voting for it.
“Our Slater, the Senate, blocked a similar measure.”
Australia says the Trump administration's new import tariffs are unjustified, and has called for them to be removed. Australia, among dozens of countries, the U.S. government claims to have failed to adequately address forced labor in their supply chains, as Christina Cuclio reports. Australia's trade minister says the new tariff imposed on many Australian imports is
"completely unjustified" and inconsistent with the free trade agreement between the two countries. In a statement on Farrell says Australian measures to combat forced labor and modern slavery are among the strongest in the world. Australia faces the higher tariff rate of 12.5% on a vast range of goods, with gold, beef, and copper imports excluded.
Farrell says he believes Australia will continue to have a high volume of trade with the
U.S. but is always looking for new markets.
He adds the Australian government will continue to lobby the U.S. to remove tariffs. For NPR News, I'm Christina Cuclio, in Melbourne.
“11 people have survived the crash of a passenger's sea plane.”
The crash happened Thursday and waters north of Seattle. Casey Barton from Member Station, KUOW reports. The plane was headed from a lake in Seattle to an island just north of the city. Witnesses who saw the crash say the plane caught on fire and sunk into the water. Multiple survivors were taken away in helicopters, according to Eric Peter, the San Juan County
Sheriff. If it's anything like the one we had a few years ago, there may be divers to come out later on to go check out the wreckage and try to get it out of the water.
Peter says the cause of the crash isn't known yet.
The FAA has been notified he says and will investigate. In 2022, another plane of the same make and model crashed on a similar route after leaving Seattle. You're listening to NPR news. Federal prosecutors are withdrawing subpoenas issued to New York Times journalists who reported
on security concerns about the president flying on a Air Force 1 gifted by Qatar. Sopinus were issued earlier this month by Manhattan, U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, whose nomination to be president and Trump's director of national intelligence is expected to get a vote by the full Senate next week. The Sopinus would have compelled the reporters to testify about their sources, prosecutors
withdrew them after acknowledging legal errors. A Senate committee has delayed a vote to advance president and Trump's nominee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and appears ping-hong reports as due to an attendance problem. There are 12 Republicans and 11 Democrats and an Appendance on the Senate Health Education
Labor and Pendants Committee. Dr. Ericish Schwartz, Trump's picked to lead the CDC, needs a majority of the committee's votes to advance her nomination. But not all Republicans could attend today's scheduled vote, including Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, who is out for family reasons.
Murkowski's testimony at our confirmation hearing last week has raised concerns among public health leaders that she might not stand up to political interference. The votes delay suggests that no Democrats are independence on the committee would vote for her. It's expected to be rescheduled for next week, ping-hong and BR news.
To oil prices now, oil prices have eased. Benchmark crude oil, Benchmark Brent crude is trading below $100 a barrel, but still set up for a weekly gain amid escalating attacks between the U.S. and Iran. I'm Jail Snyder, and PR news. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old
left in the family's garage. "You told me you've no make me cry." Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. "I need some a ref me, just as for my son."
