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Chapter 1: What significant announcement did President Trump make regarding Iran?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump says Iran has just given the U.S. a big present. Trump says it's related to the Strait of Hormuz, as NPR's Franco Ordonez reports.
Trump teased that this latest development is worth a tremendous amount of money.
I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people.
Trump said it wasn't nuclear related, but oil and gas related and tied to the Strait of Hormuz. But he would not get into specifics. Trump has said the U.S. is in productive negotiations with Iran to end the war. Iran has denied conducting negotiations with the U.S., Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
The military is preparing to call up members of the 82nd Airborne Division. A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Pentagon has ordered some 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd to deploy to the Middle East, two Marine Expeditionary Units already sailing toward the Persian Gulf.
National Transportation Safety Board says the vehicle involved in a collision with a plane landing at LaGuardia Airport did not have equipment to show its location. Two pilots killed in the crash, dozens injured, Steve Kestenbaum reports.
Investigators zeroed in on what the people in LaGuardia's control tower could see on their screens before the crash.
ASDX is a runway safety system which allows air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles.
But NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said the controllers couldn't see information about the fire truck's exact location.
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Chapter 2: What details emerged about the military's preparations in the Middle East?
Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. And I'm Giles Snyder.
This is NPR News. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast. In Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating, pausing strikes on energy sites, claiming Iran wants to make a deal, but also moving troops to the region. We unpack what we know about where those troops are headed and how talks are playing out behind closed doors. This week on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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