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What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding Iran?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. President Trump says he has ordered the US military to shoot and kill any Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump issued the post on social media. Shortly after, the U.S. military seized another tanker it says is associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil.
That ratcheted up a standoff with Tehran over the Strait, which has been mostly closed off for weeks. Normally, a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas pass through it. The GOP-led Senate has once again blocked a Democratic-led measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran.
NPR's Claudia Grisaldas reports Democrats say they'll force the vote again until Trump officials publicly testify on the conflict.
Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says it's long past time for Congress to put a check on President Trump's led war.
The president said that the war would be over in a matter of days. We are coming up on the two month mark with no real end in sight.
Baldwin is one of several Democrats forcing the war power's votes to put Republicans on record. While most Republicans remain loyal to Trump, some have warned their position could shift at the war's 60-day mark at the end of this month. Claudia Salas, NPR News, the Capitol.
A routine annual paper about COVID vaccines by staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been blocked. NPR's Ping Huang reports on the unusual move.
Every spring, after the winter peaks of cold and flu, the CDC reports on how well seasonal vaccines worked. For those who got them, how much less likely were they to get hospitalized or to die from the disease? This March, CDC staff published a paper on flu vaccine effectiveness in the agency's flagship weekly publication, and they plan to do the same for the COVID vaccine.
But Acting Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya held the COVID paper for weeks. Now, the planned publication has been canceled. The stoppage was first reported in The Washington Post and confirmed by Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.
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