Live from NPR news in Washington, on Rylan Barton, President Trump threatened...
The Gulf ally of the U.S. has been trying to help negotiate an end to the Iran war.
“The Trump threatened to bomb Oman after Iran said it was working with Oman on a plan”
to manage shipping through the state of Hormuz, a 60-day deadline for a deal to end the war expired today. Meanwhile, President Trump surprised another ally, saying the U.S. would scale back military exercises with South Korea. Trump says he's been in contact with North Korea's Leader Kim Jong-un and PR's Atama Kee reports.
Trump cited South Korea's unwillingness to get involved in the war with Iran and his own relationship with Kim Jong-un and explaining the decision to pull back on the exercises. "I'm making it much safer, you see, I'm actually making it much safer.
Kim Jong-un is always treated me with great respect."
Trump was answering questions in the Oval Office. During his first term, Trump met with the North Korean Leader three times. Other presidents have sought to isolate Kim, Tamar Keith and PR news the White House. President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met with his rarely prime minister Benjamin
“Netanyahu today. He's trying to save the U.S. plan to end Israel's occupation of”
Gaza after Netanyahu rejected it and PR's Daniel Estrin has more." The main points of contention between Israel and Hamas are these. The plan calls for Hamas to disarm and for Israel to withdraw from the parts of Gaza that it still occupies. Now Trump's board of peace put out this 15-point road map a few weeks ago.
The road map says that this would happen in stages that Hamas would disarm bit by bit and that Israel would withdraw its troops bit by bit. But Netanyahu came out and said he rejected that road map and he said all disarmament
of Hamas would have to be completed first before a single soldier moves from Gaza.
And PR's Daniel Estrin reporting from Tel Aviv, Luigi Mancioni, September trial in New York City has been postponed indefinitely, Samantha Macs of Member Station WNYC reports the future of the cases uncertain. Mancioni was scheduled to stand trial next month on state murder and weapons possession charges.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office accused him of killing United healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. But then Mancioni pleaded guilty to stalking charges in a separate federal case last week. He admitted to following Thompson to New York City and killing him. Now Mancioni's defense team is asking a state judge to throw out the remaining charges.
They say it would violate his rights to keep prosecuting the case after he pleaded guilty. The Manhattan Day's Office says it will fight that request. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Macs in New York. This is NPR. Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running for reelection in a new Florida
district after Republicans redrew the congressional map. He's now running in a district that has historically elected black Democrats. Wasserman Schultz faces criticism for running in the district despite being white. But argues her experience makes her a strong candidate. Her main opponent is former Congresswoman Sheila Scharfalis McCormick, who resigned from
the seat in April while facing an ethics investigation. An erectile dysfunction drug is getting more buzz in wellness circles to Dallasville. Best known as Seattleis is being promoted for longevity and PRs will stone reports. Online clinics and influencers are promoting to Dallasville as a kind of all-purpose longevity drug.
It belongs to the same class of drugs as Viagra. There is research suggesting to Dallasville could have benefits for blood vessels, and that men taking it are at a lower risk of dying from cardiovascular related causes. Dr. Robert Cloner at the Huntington Medical Research Institutes has been studying this. "We found an association, we found a signal, this does not prove causation."
To do that, Cloner says there would need to be high quality human trials. Along with erectile dysfunction to Dallasville is approved for a rare form of high blood pressure affecting the lungs, as well as symptoms of enlarged prostate in men. Will stone and PR news?
There are four times as many people worth more than $100 million in the Trump administration
than in the three previous administrations combined. That's according to consumer advocacy group public citizen 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 ambassadors, and remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch. This is NPR News.
This week on up first, the midterms and the Middle East were tracking major primary elections in Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming. And abroad, the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner pursues a peace plan in Gaza.
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