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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Chapter 2: What significant political change occurred in Hungary?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a close ally of President Trump, has conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar, ending his 16 years in power. Last week, Vice President Vance visited Hungary supporting Orban, trying to shore up votes for the authoritarian leader. President Trump says the U.S.
is imposing a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, but Iran says it won't bow down to threats.
NPR's Maya Eliasson reports. Trump told Fox News it wouldn't take long to clean out the Strait. Just hours after talks between the U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement to end the war, President Trump posted that effective immediately, the U.S. Navy will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz.
That means Iran could not export its oil through the Strait or collect tolls from other countries' ships. But since it would also prevent any oil from coming through the Strait, it's not clear how the blockade will help bring down the price of gas. Those high prices were caused by closing off one of the most important choke points for the global oil and gas market. The president also posted...
that any Iranian who fires at the U.S. or any other peaceful vessels will be, quote, blown to hell. Mara Liason, NPR News.
Congress is back in D.C. tomorrow after a two-week break and topping the agenda, the war in Iran. NPR's Eric McDaniel has more.
Democrats are incensed over President Trump's threat to end Iranian civilization ahead of last week's ceasefire announcement.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the U.S. naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz?
More than three dozen called for him to be removed from office. After this weekend's talks led by Vice President Vance failed, Democrats will force votes on the war in an attempt to curb the president's powers. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war, though it's been some time since they asserted it.
The show votes are expected to fail, but ahead of the eventual consideration of the president's $1.5 trillion Pentagon funding request, they'll put Republicans on the record about a military campaign that remains extremely unpopular among the American public. Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
Public health officials say street drugs are getting more toxic. NPR's Brian Mann has more.
Fatal street drug overdoses have been plummeting, reaching their lowest levels in more than half a decade, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But street drug experts like Ed Sisco with the National Institute of Standards and Technology worry a new wave of synthetic chemicals being added to street drugs is heightening the danger again.
Once a month or once every other month, we're encountering something that we've never seen before and we haven't seen indications of it being seen in the United States before either.
Officials have issued warnings about a dangerous sedative called metatomidine that's causing heart ailments in people who use street drugs and a synthetic opioid more powerful than fentanyl called cyclophene linked to recent overdose deaths in South Carolina and Tennessee. Brian Mann, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. One of the giants of the Indian movie and music industries has died. Singer Asha Bosla was 92 years old. And here's Anastasia Siloukas reports she gave voice to hundreds of movie characters as a Bollywood singer.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Asha Bosla was the most recorded singer of all time. Over a career that lasted nearly eight decades, she recorded more than 12,000 songs, mostly for movie actresses to lip-sync on screen. And for much of her career, her main competition was her older sister, Lata Mangeshkar. Their father was a classical Indian singer, but he died young.
So the sisters made their way to Mumbai and started singing for films to help support their family. Boza made her first recording when she was just 10 years old. Anastasia Tsilkas, NPR News, New York.
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