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What recent developments are happening in Iran regarding negotiations?
Iran doesn't want to negotiate. I'm Ted Lindner, Fox News. Iran denying participation in negotiations to end the conflict in the Middle East as President Trump is warning of attacks against the country's energy infrastructure. Fox's Mike Tobin with more.
President Trump says serious discussions are taking place. Iran says no talks are taking place. There's a gathering of foreign ministers in Islamabad. They're trying to pave the way for what Pakistan's foreign minister called meaningful talks. An Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says there are no talks. The US demands have been very excessive, unrealistic and illogical. The meetings that Pakistan has with neighboring countries are, well, a framework they themselves have established. We have not participated in this framework. President Trump posted, if Iran does not open the Strait, we will conclude our lovely stay in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells, and Karg Island and possibly the desalinization plants.
Crude oil prices have surged by approximately 50% this month due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Congress on recess as the DHS funding bill fails to materialize.
How is President Trump's stance affecting the situation in the Middle East?
Fox's Kevin Cork with the details.
Pass the sunscreen, everybody. The Senate spring break plans were on. A two-week recess happening despite growing calls to get back to work and fund DHS and pass the Save America Act. But for now, lawmakers are out of pocket and arguably out of ideas for just how to get DHS funded. before they're scheduled to come back to work on April the 13th. But thanks to President Trump and that emergency directive, TSA workers will receive pay, in fact, retroactively, beginning for some this week, which, of course, is crucial, seeing as how more than 500 TSA officers walked off the job since mid-February.
And despite the order to pay TSA agents, borders are Tom Holman announced that ICE agents will likely remain at airports around the country. America's listening to Fox News. The final preparations have begun for NASA to launch its Artemis II mission to orbit the moon. The countdown to liftoff has officially begun.
As preparations continue, launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson said there is much work happening well before astronauts get to the controls.
Configurations of the vehicle, the checkouts that we do. prior to getting deeper into our countdown. And all of this will take us over the next day or so.
As for the three Americans and one Canadian that will fly Wednesday, Chief Flight Director Emily Nelson said they've been at Cape Canaveral since Friday with their families.
Getting an opportunity for some rest before we work them very hard.
The mission is almost 10 days around the moon and back to Earth. Grinnell Scott, Fox News.
Well, it's Cesar Chavez Day, but some are distancing themselves from the late civil rights leader's name after recent allegations of sexual abuse came to light. Fox's Tanya J. Powers with more.
Efforts to rebrand the holiday celebrating Cesar Chavez on his birthday have been swift following allegations that he sexually abused women and girls. Chavez, who died in 1993, was a Latino labor leader and activist who co-founded a union that eventually became the United Farm Workers. His March 31st birthday was made a federal holiday in 2014, and California has celebrated it as a paid holiday for the past 25 years. Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation changing the name of it to Farm Workers Day, and some cities are renaming streets and removing Chavez's name from schools and community events. Other celebrations honoring him have seen name changes in Arizona, Colorado, and Texas.
Tanya J. Powers, Fox News.
And Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Brett Smiley wants a large mural of Irina Zirutska in his city taken down. Zirutska was a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who was brutally murdered, stabbed to death on a train last August. Suspect to Carlos Brown Jr. was captured shortly afterwards. Mayor Smiley calling the mural too divisive.
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