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India says two of its tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz after being granted permission by Iran.

Indian officials say the vessels were carrying liquefied petroleum gas and were headed to Indian ports.

The crossing to the critical shipping route followed intense high-level talks between Delhi and Tehran.

The BBC's Ian McMilliam has details.

The BBC's Ian McWilliam reporting there.

The White House is investigating the possibility of imposing tariffs on goods from 60 economies.

This is the second set of investigations the administration announced this week under a statute meant to combat unfair trading practices.

Here's NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben.

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Strong storms last night left hundreds of thousands without power from Wisconsin and Michigan to Virginia and New York.

Ohio was the hardest hit.

According to PowerOutage.us, more than a quarter million customers remain without power in Ohio.

Hawaii is under a state of emergency from what's called a Kona storm.

It began dumping rain on the islands this week.

The Justice Department is moving to dismiss charges against an Army veteran deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year.

Jay Carey of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested in August after he set fire to a flag on the same day that President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to prosecute people for flag burning.

DOJ moved to dismiss two misdemeanors on Friday.

France is returning a sacred drum to Ivory Coast, stolen during the West African nation's colonial era.

The return part of a near decade-long reparation effort, as Michael Koloke reports.

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.