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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 recent developments have occurred in the Strait of Hormuz?
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is now open to commercial vessels and ships have to coordinate their transit through Tehran during the fragile ceasefire with the U.S. But the White House says the U.S. blockade remains in place. Wall Street liked the news that sent crude oil prices tumbling and stocks soaring. NPR's Scott Horsley has more.
If the Strait remains open long term, and I will underscore if, that would remove a sort of cloud of uncertainty that's been hanging over the economy. You know, when families or businesses are making plans, they like to have some idea of what to expect. And it's really hard to make a big purchase or plan a vacation or make an investment or hire a new worker now.
if you don't know what your energy bill is going to look like in the next month or two. The good news is, even as gas and diesel prices soared over the last six weeks, we didn't see people cutting back very much in other spending.
NPR's Scott Horsley reporting. The White House is pitching Congress on the largest defense budget request in U.S. history. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports the $1.5 trillion figure doesn't include costs from the war with Iran.
The administration is also on track to ask Congress for a supplemental war funding plan that could near the $100 billion mark. Betty McCollum, top Democrat on a House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, told Army officials this week they need a full picture to conduct oversight.
That's the only way we can do our job properly to do the oversight that we are tasked with, to be clear. The size of the request for defense spending is shocking.
Trump officials are calling the $1.5 trillion defense budget request so far a paradigm-shifting investment. Claudia Gonzalez, NPR News.
The Tufts University student detained by ICE last year for writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in her student newspaper has settled with the government on her immigration and federal cases. GBH's Sarah Bettencourt has more on the case of Rumeysa Ozturk.
Ozturk, who spent over six weeks in detention, and her attorneys have agreed with the government to dismiss her pending Board of Immigration Appeals case in another federal case. She's graduated and has already returned to Turkey. Jesse Rossman of the ACLU of Massachusetts was one of Osterk's attorneys.
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