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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What paused US–Iran attacks and which officials commented on the halt?
There was a pause in attacks between the United States and Iran over the weekend. The U.S. says the halt is giving space for potential negotiations. Here's NPR's Jane Araf.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Mike Waltz, told NBC the pause is meant to give, quote, talks some space. Iran was a bit more reticent. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Barahi said mediators were exchanging messages, but there were no negotiations with the U.S. going on, and Iran had not requested a return to talks. And while Iran has paused attacks in Jordan and the Gulf, most of them aimed at U.S. bases, its Yemeni allies have not. Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck Saudi oil assets over the weekend to reinforce their control over a second shipping lane.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to visit with President Trump tomorrow in Washington. He's expected to urge the U.S. to continue its military campaign against Iran. But President Trump's attempting to bring U.S. hostilities with Iran to an end at a time when he's facing low public approval ratings over the war, gas prices, and his overall handling of the U.S. economy, according to polls. Several shooting victims have been or are being released from the hospital today following a mass shooting at a food festival in Seattle, Washington yesterday. Three people were killed. Police say one person was arrested, but a second person may also be involved.
How did Iran and its allies respond during the pause in attacks?
Casey Martin with member station KUOW is following the investigation into the shooting near the Space Needles.
Local police said they're getting help from the state patrol and also the FBI. The park is closed and will be for a while, they said. And now police need the public's help for video as there were no surveillance cameras right where the shooting happened. So that will be an ongoing conversation about public safety here.
That's Casey Martin reporting. The Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor in Ontario, Canada, is reopening today. As Alex McLennan of member station WDET tells us, it comes amid political tension between Canada and the U.S.
U.S. officials were not invited to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for this ban held in Ontario after Donald Trump placed 50 percent tariffs on Canada. Still, Canadian officials are highlighting the Gordie Howe Bridge as a testament to the relationship between the two countries. Mark Wiseman is Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Where we stand today is truly one region. It is a place of two nations with a shared community.
The new span will give drivers crossing the Detroit River an alternative to the existing Ambassador Bridge, which has been the corridor's only option for commercial truck drivers for nearly a century. For NPR News, I'm Alex McClennan in Detroit.
U.S. stocks mixed with the Dow up 123 now, and the Nasdaq is down more than 100 points. You're listening to NPR News. Five states are set to hold primaries a week from tomorrow. One of them is a battleground state of Michigan. It's where President Trump's expected to defend his handling of the economy when he visits Milford today. His sweeping tariffs have affected many businesses in the state that voted for Trump in 2024. Many Native American languages are at risk of vanishing, but NPR's Caden Mills met a 12-year-old in Michigan who's hoping...
To change that, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Holden Hoy is building a robot that speaks the Ojibwe language.
I was already a big fan of robotics, and I'm Ojibwe, so I've always wanted to say the Ojibwe language.
Hoy's robot sort of resembles a mini R2-D2 from Star Wars, if he was designed in Native American woodland florals.
It's fun because you can have a personalized little robot body on your shoulder, but it also teaches you Ojibwe.
You can ask it things like, how do you say bear in Ojibwe?
And it'll respond, makwa means bear.
Hoy says it's important to protect the language because generation after generation is based around this culture.
The language is the culture.
Caden Mills, NPR News, Sault Ste.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:05
2
What paused US–Iran attacks and which officials commented on the halt?
0:05–1:35
3
How did Iran and its allies respond during the pause in attacks?
1:35–4:30
4
What is Netanyahu expected to ask President Trump during his Washington visit?
4:30–5:03