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What updates did President Trump provide on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump says the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is on, quote, massive life support. He's rejecting Tehran's counterproposal to the U.S. 's plan for ending hostilities. NPR's Aya Batrawi has the latest.
The details of the latest U.S. proposal for ending the war haven't been made public. But Trump has repeatedly said he wants Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment and open the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping. Iran's control of that vital waterway since the start of this war has given it leverage it didn't have in previous negotiations with the U.S., Iranian President Massoud Pazeskian said that Iran will never bow its head before the enemy. Iran says any deal with the U.S. should include steps by both sides, including the U.S. lifting sanctions and unfreezing Iranian assets. And while the ceasefire is still holding, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Iran each report intercepting drones over their territory.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
More than 20 countries are receiving or treating passengers from a cruise ship with a head of virus outbreak. They include 18 in the U.S. One American is tested positive. Admiral Brian Christine, Assistant Secretary of Health, sought to reassure the public today.
Let me be crystal clear. The risk of hantavirus to the general public remains very, very low.
The U.S. Supreme Court is planning to discuss this week how it will handle a set of cases that could severely weaken enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act. NPR's Hansi Lowong reports the court's conference comes after a recent ruling that has limited the landmark law's protections against racial discrimination in redistricting.
For decades, legal protections for racial minority voters under what's known as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act have been mainly enforced through lawsuits by voters and advocacy groups. But Republican officials in North Dakota, Mississippi and Alabama have made a novel argument that only the Justice Department can sue. The Supreme Court is set to discuss this Thursday how it will handle three redistricting cases that question whether private individuals and groups can keep suing under Section 2. Last month, the court made it harder to use that part of the Voting Rights Act to claim that maps of certain voting districts discriminate against minority voters of color. The three redistricting cases now on the court's conference schedule could end up further weakening the landmark law from the civil rights movement.
Anzila Wong, NPR News.
The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year suing chat GPT maker OpenAI, as well as a shooter, the family of Tiruchaba, alleges the company's AI chatbot gave advice on how to carry out the attack. Bakari Sellers is one of the attorneys representing the family and spoke to reporters in Tallahassee today.
ChatGPT has decided they wanted to place revenue streams. They decided they wanted to place income. They decided they wanted to place the dollar above the lives of everyday average Americans.
OpenAI denies wrongdoing, adding ChatGPT did not promote illegal or harmful activity. It's NPR News. The price of existing homes have gone up in the past month. And Pierre Scott Horsley with the latest.
Sales of existing homes rose only slightly in April. The National Association of Realtors says sales were up two-tenths of one percent from March and flat compared to April of last year. The average selling price was up less than 1% from a year ago at just under $418,000. First-time buyers accounted for a third of the homes sold last month. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average interest rate on a 30-year home loan is now 6.37%.
That's Scott Horsley reporting. The 4th National Baseball Poetry Festival took over a ballpark in Massachusetts over the weekend. WBUR's Andrea Shea has the latest.
Poets of all ages from across the country travel to Polar Park, Worcester's minor league stadium, to celebrate America's national pastime through verse.
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