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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump has said he will send Vice President Vance and other officials to Pakistan for talks with Iran on ending the war. But Vance hasn't yet left Washington. A report from Iran's news agency said Iranian officials were not going to attend. This comes after the U.S. stopped and seized an Iranian-flagged vessel. NPR's Aya Batraoui reports.
In a grainy edited video released by Central Command, U.S. Marines are shown rappelling onto an Iranian-flagged vessel after U.S. forces struck its engine.
Motor vessel Tosca. Motor vessel Tosca.
Centcom says the commercial ship failed to comply with repeated U.S. warnings over a six-hour period Sunday as it sailed in the Arabian Sea toward Iran. President Trump says U.S. Marines now have custody of the vessel. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned it will take the necessary action against the U.S. military for the seizure of that ship without elaborating. The U.S. is blocking the transit of Iranian cargo ships in international waters around Iran, as Iran continues blocking most ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, India says it summoned Iran's ambassador for attacks Saturday on two Indian vessels in the Persian Gulf. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
Starting now, the U.S. government is opening a website for certain businesses to apply for refunds for some of the tariffs they've paid. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned some of President Trump's tariffs this year, and PR Scott Horsley says importers who paid $166 billion in tariffs can apply.
There's some 330,000 businesses that were wrongly forced to pay those tariffs, and a lot of them are going to be at their keyboards this morning looking for refunds. People liken this to trying to get tickets to a hot concert or a sporting event. The process is supposed to be pretty straightforward, similar to what the Customs Service does routinely when, say, a company overpays a tariff by mistake. But Customs has never tried to repay this much money all at once.
NPR's Scott Horsley reporting. Separately, a new analysis finds the government could lose nearly half a trillion dollars over a decade if fewer immigrants file their taxes. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports on concerns linked to President Trump's immigration policies.
The research comes from the Yale Budget Lab, which analyzed how changes in filing behavior could affect federal revenue. Undocumented immigrants already contribute tens of billions of dollars each year through payroll and income taxes. But Director of Policy Analysis Richard Prisanzano says if fear leads to more people to stop filing or to work off the books, that could shrink the number of people paying into the system.
If you're discouraging people from doing what they're supposed to do in terms of filing taxes by data sharing across government agencies, you're hurting the baseline numbers. You know, in one sense, it's kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
The report warns that kind of shift could erode a key source of federal revenue over time. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
You're listening to NPR News. Police in Shreveport, Louisiana, say a man opened fire on his children yesterday, killing seven of them and their cousin. All the children were 11 years old and younger. The man also shot and wounded his wife and another woman. He was later shot and killed by police. A powerful undersea earthquake rocked northeast Japan today. The U.S. Geological Survey says its magnitude was 7.4. It also triggered an immediate tsunami warning for the northeast Japanese coast. That's now been downgraded to an advisory. There are no initial reports of damage or injuries. But tens of thousands of people are fleeing. Today is the 130th Boston Marathon. It starts soon. A man from Texas and his granddaughter hope to make history.
From member station WBUR, Amanda Beeland has more.
Running is really important to 67-year-old Carlos Sanchez. He's finished more than three dozen marathons over the last two decades. But he says running his first Boston with his granddaughter is an honor.
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