NPR News: 05-28-2026 6PM EDT
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump warned Oman, a U.S. ally, not to enter into any agreement with Iran to share control of the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. will, quote, have to blow them up.
What warning did President Trump give Oman regarding Iran?
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant downplayed Trump's rhetoric today. He says he spoke with Oman's ambassador to Washington and that the envoy assured him that his country had no plans for tolling the Strait. As he said, our countries have had 200 years of good relations. He wants to have another 200 more. Besant also said he hadn't spoken with Trump about an agreement to extend the ceasefire with Iran, but underscored that Trump has made clear that there can be no deal without Iran agreeing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pledging never to have a nuclear weapons program. More apartments and other rentals are offering perks, like a free month of rent. About 40 percent of rentals this spring have an extra incentive for new renters, according to Zillow.
NPR's Stephen Basaha reports that's the highest on record for spring.
It is a renter's market, according to Zillow's senior economist Cara Ng.
Renters, this is your year.
Okay, it might not feel that way. Nationally, rent has risen 37% since the pandemic. But over the last year, it has gone up slower than inflation.
It does mean that rent is the place giving you that breathing room.
She says that's due to an apartment construction boom.
There's a lot of apartment buildings. hitting the market all at once, and property managers are trying to fill it. And they're doing it with freebies.
Ng says renters renewing their lease should also negotiate a deal, like a rent-free month, because they have the negotiation power. Stephen Basaha, NPR News.
CNN is the latest media organization to sue an artificial intelligence firm for copyright infringement. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the broadcaster is bringing a case against AI company Perplexity.
The suit claims Perplexity scanned CNN's website and processed thousands of articles without permission. And when someone goes to Perplexity, a chatbot similar to ChatGPT, the suit says it delivers verbatim reproductions of CNN stories, even when the stories are behind a paywall. OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropix Cloud have also been hit with suits alleging that the AI answers served to millions of users steal from the copyrighted work of book authors and media organizations. It comes at a delicate time for online publishers, which have seen web traffic and online ad revenue collapse as more people rely on AI for information. According to some estimates, nearly 70% of online searches today end without clicking a news site link.
Bobby Allen, NPR News.
Major League Baseball owners made their long-expected proposal for a salary cap, a system the players' union has vowed never to accept. It puts the two sides on course for a confrontation that threatens the 2027 season and perhaps beyond. Baseball owners haven't proposed a firm cap since 1994. That effort prompted a seven and a half month long strike that forced the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years. This is NPR News. Australia is suing the U.S. company 3M for over $1.4 billion due to contamination from forever chemicals in firefighting foam at defense bases. The government announced the lawsuit focusing on PFAS chemicals at 28 sites. 3M says it stopped selling the foam in Australia two decades ago, but that the Defense Department continued using it longer.
Haitians are gearing up for the country's second-ever appearance in the Men's World Cup, but sky-high ticket prices and concerns over immigration enforcement could keep many fans away from the stadium tonight. From member station WBUR, Simone Rios reports.
Haiti's first World Cup in more than 50 years comes amid a travel ban against Haitian citizens and efforts to strip legal status from many now in the U.S. An even greater obstacle to seeing their team take on Scotland could be ticket prices, starting on the resale market around $600.
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