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Chapter 1: What are the latest developments in U.S.-Iran relations?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Iran says it has no plans to participate in peace talks with the U.S. this week. A two-week ceasefire is set to expire Wednesday. Duri Buskaran is in Van, a Turkish city near the Iranian border, and spoke with Iranians there.
In a train station waiting room near the Iranian border, one woman told us she's hopeful that the U.S. and Iran can find a compromise to end the war. She asked NPR not to share her name due to the risk of arrest when she returns to Iran for speaking to foreign media. Anything that can bring peace back to the people in any way possible, she says.
At the same time, she said she hopes the Iranian government ends its crackdown on internal critics.
Chapter 2: How are Midwestern farmers coping with rising costs amid geopolitical tensions?
Others do not want the war to end. Another woman, who asked not to be recorded, said she's nervous about the talks. She said Iranians are willing to receive an entirely burned and flattened Iran, but an Iran that does not have the Islamic Republic ruling it. For NPR News, I'm Dari Bouskaran. In Van, Turkey.
Midwestern farmers are anxious over the on-again, off-again closure of the Strait of Hormuz as fertilizer and diesel prices soar. MPR's Kirk Siegler has more.
Geopolitics is just the latest stress for farmers like Justin Sherlock, who grows soybeans and corn in North Dakota.
Chapter 3: What is the latest in the David Burke murder case?
He's going into his fourth straight spring planting season in the red. The only way most farmers are still able to get a loan from the bank is because land prices are still high, and that's collateral.
Farmers are pledging everything, betting the farm, literally, to go one more year, hoping we can make it. And that's not a good place for us to be in.
High diesel and fertilizer costs due to President Trump's Iran war capping what's been a slow burn in the heartland since COVID. And then tariffs with soybean prices staying flat and inflation rising. Sherlock says something's got to give soon. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Fargo, North Dakota.
Chapter 4: What are the urgent needs for Gaza's reconstruction?
Singer-songwriter David Burke pleaded not guilty in a courtroom today in L.A. to murder charges in the death of a 14-year-old girl missing for a year. Steve Futterman has more.
It began as a missing person investigation. Immediately, the focus centered on 21-year-old David Anthony Burke, L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hockman.
On April 23, 2025, Celeste went to Mr. Burke's house in the Hollywood Hills. She was never heard from again.
Last September, it turned into a murder investigation.
Her dismembered and decomposed remains were found inside of a FAR registered to Mr. Burke.
Prosecutors believe the motive was to prevent Celeste Rivas from revealing possible criminal acts involving Burke. Attorneys for Burke say he is innocent.
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Chapter 5: How did the Boston Marathon unfold this year?
For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The U.N. says Gaza needs more than $70 billion for reconstruction and recovery, and that around $26 billion is needed now to rebuild critical infrastructure, including hospitals, water systems and agriculture.
A new assessment by the U.N., World Bank and the EU shows more than 370,000 homes in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed in Israeli attacks, displacing more than a million people. Many now live in makeshift tents made out of plastic tarps. Israeli troops still occupy Gaza and have leveled even more homes, allegedly because Hamas has tunnels running underneath them.
Tens of thousands of athletes took to the roads in and around Boston for the 130th Boston Marathon today. Esteban Bustillos of member station GBH has more.
Kenya's John Correa broke the course record with a time of two hours, one minute, and 52 seconds. That's over a minute better than the previous record. And at first, he wasn't aware he'd made history.
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Chapter 6: What controversial proposal is being discussed in New Hampshire's education system?
They told me that you have run the course record.
That's when I started to be happy. Each of the top three finishers on the men's side ran times that were better than the previous high mark. Correa repeated as champion, as did Sharon Locchetti, who set the women's division course record last year. Marcel Hoog picked up his ninth victory in the men's wheelchair division, and Eden Rainbow Cooper won the women's wheelchair race for the second time.
For NPR News, I'm Esteban Bustillos in Boston.
U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour, all three major indices up about one-tenth of a percent. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.
This week on Consider This, NPR investigates a Republican lawmaker from New Hampshire. He officially proposed a known Holocaust denier join a state commission overseeing history lessons in public schools. A story about extremism normalized and creeping into mainstream politics. This week on Consider This, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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