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What incident did President Trump report regarding the Iranian cargo ship?
President Trump says the U.S. has seized an Iranian cargo ship after it attempted to violate the U.S. blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Eric McDaniel has more.
Amid peace talks and a looming end to the ceasefire, President Trump posted to social media that a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, quote, blew a hole in the engine room, end quote, of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship, the Tuska. Trump says Marines then took control of the vessel and moved to investigate its cargo. He said the Iranian flagship was under existing U.S. Treasury Department sanctions. Earlier on Sunday, Trump alleged that Iran had violated the ceasefire by firing at other ships transiting the waterway. The incident is sure to complicate planned peace talks in Pakistan this week. Eric McDaniel, NPR News, the White House.
Police in Shreveport, Louisiana are still trying to make sense out of one of the country's deadliest mass shootings in several years. They say a man killed eight children, including seven of his own, and wounded their mother and another woman early Sunday. Shreveport Police Corporal Chris Bordelon says they still don't understand why the shooting took place.
This is a horrible act of violence, unlike anything we've ever seen in our city. This whole community is hurting, and as police officers, we want to do what we can to support our community. But our officers are hurting. The officers that responded in this scene, every one of them, we've never seen anything like this. This amount of evil violence that happened, and that's what it is, it's evil, is something that's disturbing and it's going to take a long time for this community to recover.
Our audio comes courtesy of KSLA News 12 in Shreveport. A refund system for businesses that paid tariffs on imported goods is scheduled to launch Monday. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration tariffs in February. Officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection say importers and brokers can begin claiming refunds online starting at 8 a.m. Eastern. The Trump administration has released new data on the country's HIV-AIDS work overseas. As NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports, these are the first numbers to show the effect of massive cuts and changes to the U.S. flagship Global Health Initiative.
Officials are trumpeting the HIV treatment numbers, which show the U.S. supporting 20 million people as of last September, about the same number as a year prior. Jeremy Lewin is with the State Department.
The numbers are very, very good.
But many HIV experts say that while treatment was prioritized, the rest of the delicate system for preventing and finding HIV cases has been severely disrupted. Asia Russell is with the advocacy group Health Gap. These data show nothing less than a five alarm fire. She points to a 24% drop in frontline HIV health workers supported by the U.S., as well as big drops in HIV testing and medication to prevent at-risk individuals from contracting HIV. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. Federal prosecutors say a 44-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night in Los Angeles on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan. Sudan is in its fourth year of a civil war. They say she will face charges that she brokered the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition between Iran and the Sudanese armed forces. The defendant is an Iranian national who became a permanent resident of the U.S. in 2016.
What details emerged about the mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana?
Tens of thousands of runners and athletes will be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Monday to stand at the starting line of the 130th Boston Marathon. Esteban Bustillos with Member Station GBH News has more.
30,000 participants are expected to make the 26.2-mile journey from the cozy New England town of Hopkinton to Boston's Copley Square for the marathon. Residents of 123 different countries are set to participate in the big race. This year's Grand Marshal is Jack Foltz, who won the Boston Marathon in 1976 in what became known as the Run for the Hoses.
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