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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. President Trump has extended the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran indefinitely. That announcement came hours after Trump issued aggressive threats of new strikes. Even as the ceasefire stayed in place, Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized two of them. The effective closure of the strait has sent gas prices skyrocketing. NPR's Franco Ordonez.
The Trump administration has tried everything to reopen the strait, including right now its own blockade, preventing Iranian-tied ships from entering or leaving. Vice President Vance was, of course, scheduled to travel to Pakistan yesterday for peace talks. Those are off now because the Iranians refused to meet, calling that U.S. blockade an act of war. So Iran's nuclear capabilities, they're clearly an issue. But before the war, there was free passage through the Strait, and that's no longer the case, and it's really, really a big concern around the world.
President Trump has said the U.S. naval blockade will continue and that the U.S. military will stay in the region. Lufthansa says it's cutting 20,000 short-haul flights this summer in response to the sharp rise in jet fuel prices driven by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. As Esme Nicholson reports, the German airline is not alone in raising prices and canceling flights.
Lufthansa says its decision to reduce its summer flight timetable should save more than 40,000 metric tons of kerosene which has more than doubled in price since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Dutch carrier KLM, Air France and Delta have also temporarily cut some flights, while other airlines have raised ticket prices and baggage fees. The Gulf provides about half of Europe's jet fuel, most of it via the Strait of Hormuz, which remains effectively closed. The EU is warning of a very serious aviation crisis as the International Energy Agency warns that Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks. For NPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin.
A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. From Houston Public Media, Andrew Schneider reports the ruling has significant implications for long-established ideas of the separation of church and state.
The Fifth Circuit judges ruled 9 to 8 that the Texas law does not violate the First Amendment to the Constitution, either in its prohibition of government-established religion or its protection for the free exercise or non-exercise of religion. Charles Rocky Rhodes teaches constitutional law at the University of Missouri. It seems based on the Fifth Circuit's interpretation here, pretty much anything else that the government wants to do to acknowledge religion is going to be acceptable. The ACLU and other organizations representing the plaintiffs challenging the Texas law say they anticipate asking the Supreme Court to reverse the Fifth Circuit's ruling. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston.
NPR. Georgia Congressman David Scott has died at age 80. The Democrat was seeking his 13th term in Congress representing Metro Atlanta but was facing tough primary competition. Scott was the first black chair of the House Agriculture Committee. Musician Dave Mason has died. According to a statement from his publicist, the 79-year-old guitarist and vocalist died peacefully Sunday with his family at his home in Nevada. NPR's Felix Contreras reports Mason became a familiar name to rock fans in the 1970s, largely through his songwriting and his contributions to many iconic classic rock albums.
Dave Mason once referred to himself as the Forrest Gump of rock, having been in the studio with the Rolling Stones, George Harrison, and even Jimi Hendrix. But it was his songwriting that made perhaps the strongest impact. As a member of the British band Traffic, at age 19, he wrote what would become a classic rock statement. Songs like Only You Know What I Know, as well as the tender ballad We Just Disagree, kept Dave Mason on the road until 2025 when he announced his retirement from performing because of a series of health problems.
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