Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
President Trump is changing his approach to Iran.
“It's an effort to get that country to agree to his terms for a peace deal than Paris”
Mylicen reports. Months of bombing haven't worked to subdue Iran, and with no obvious face-saving off-ramp, the president is now turning to economic pressure. Trump is threatening a "economic d-day," saying there will be a crushing operation of sanctions to cripple Iran financially.
It's unclear if he will back off that threat, as he has with other threats. Trump is also threatening economic action against any country giving Iran a "lifeline." That would describe China, Iran's biggest oil customer. But in the past, Trump has been reluctant to press China with tough sanctions. Mar Elias and NPR News.
Ukraine is continuing its drone attacks on Russian infrastructure, most recently, they destroyed a big online retailer's warehouse in southwestern Russia, and its strike came despite Russia's threat of escalated responses, and Piers Charles Mains reports from Moscow. In an interview with state media, Putin said in attacking Russian energy in commercial infrastructure, Ukraine had opened "pendoors" box.
The criminal leaders said Ukrainians could expect Russia to now attack when he called their "most sensitive economic sectors," Putin said that included grain shipments, Ukraine's
“key export, about reports like Odessa on the black sea, Putin also rejected claims by critics”
that Russian targeting of Ukrainian grain stores at harvest time risked a global food shortage this winter. Russia, Putin said, could make up the difference with its own agricultural exports. That despite Ukraine's own recent targeting of Russian sea freight shipments out of the region. Charles Mains and Piers News.
Moscow. Immigration authorities on Saturday arrested the father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln. M.Piers Maria Godoy has more in that story. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that border patrol agents arrested Luis
Avelis during a vehicle stop in Kiwis, Florida. Avelis is from Nicaragua. In a post on Facebook, Avelis's son, Joshua Avelis, who has been on the USS Abraham Lincoln for more than nine months, wrote "I don't know how I can mentally continue working 12 plus our days, knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal."
“The military's parole in place policy allows parents, spouses, and children of service”
members to obtain legal immigration status. DHS said an statement that Luis Avelis entered the U.S.D legally in "having a family member in the military is not a free pass to violate our nation's laws." Maria Godoy and Piers News. The Union representing the Boston Symphony Orchestra Musicians has authorized the first strike
in the ensembles 145-year history. This contract with the Symphony expired Sunday, relations between the two sides have been strained since March when management decided to force out music director Andris Nelson's next year. You're listening to NPR News.
At least two people were killed this weekend when a powerful cyclone hit Lithuania and
Latvia. Officials say heavy rain and winds exceeding 67 miles an hour knocked out power to more than 500,000 people in the region, and at least two people were killed, trains and other public transit were disrupted by the storm. The federal government offers financial aid to low-income families that need help paying
for childcare. But as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, in the third of U.S. states, those families may now have to join a wait list. There were an estimated 400,000 children on wait list for childcare assistance programs across the U.S. and the second half of last year.
It's according to a report by the National Women's Law Center. That number has more than tripled since 2024, the group said.
Childcare advocates say Congress has never appropriated enough money for the childcare and
development fund, which helps subsidize care for low-income working families. But in recent years, wait lists have grown for other reasons. Pandemic relief money that helps support the National Child Care System recently ran out. And advocates say more families are now applying for aid. It comes at a time when U.S. child care prices are soaring.
In some cases, rivaling the cost of a mortgage or college tuition. Joe Hernandez and PR news. Singer and television actress Shelley F.Bray has died. She was 82 years old. F.Bray was a star of the 1950s TV program, the Donna Reed Show, before having a hit song
in 1962 with the song Johnny Angel. She also starred on another television shows, including one day at a time in coach, and she starred in three films with Elvis Presley, her family announced her death praising her kindness. And spirit.
I'm Dale Wilman and PR news. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
