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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herst. Iran says only diplomacy can end the war with the US and Israel. That's after President Trump rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and stop the fighting, as NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports.
In a post on social media, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqji wrote that Iran was aware of President Trump's rejection and said that only quote negotiated solutions will end the conflict now. He also wrote that Iran is still waiting for an official US response. Trump told a group of reporters on Saturday that the Iranian plan was not acceptable, but did not give further explanation. He suggested Iran wanted to make a deal because it's desperate and quote losing so badly. Iran made the proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week. The extended closure of the strait has caused major disruptions to the world's oil supply. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
For the second year in a row, President Trump is refusing to send hundreds of millions of dollars to the places that Congress says it has to go. Called a pocket rescission, the federal government's nonpartisan watchdog government accountability office says that maneuver is illegal. And here's Eric McDaniel has more.
Each year, Congress passes laws which allocate money to the federal government's various programs and agencies. That is their constitutional responsibility, the power of the purse. Now the executive branch is unilaterally withholding money owed to programs the president opposes. That's five hundred and sixty million to programs that provide services to refugees and other immigrants, according to a memo from the White House. Also, fifteen million to a Justice Department team tasked with preventing and resolving. Racial tensions. That's seventy million dollars to programs providing grants and fellowships to support institutions bringing foreign students and faculty to the US, and tens of millions more to initiatives that touch on climate change or racial and gender minority work.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News in Washington.
In the Northeast, one person is dead as a powerful and slow moving nor'easter moves along the eastern seaboard. The New York Housing Authority says one of its employees was killed by a falling tree in Brooklyn. This is the storm pelted the northeast with heavy rains and high winds that led to flooding and thousands of power outages, and Fitzsimmons owns a store on the Jersey shore. She says the storm did a fair amount of damage.
We had a full moon, high tide, uh some bad winds, nor'easter, and so we uh had a lot of water around the perimeter of the building.
The National Weather Service says high winds and tides along with heavy rains and flash flooding is possible along the east coast for the next few days. Hurricane Nolo skirted Hawaii, but it could still cause fashion flooding and dangerously strong winds. The National Hurricane Center says the storm is forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane later today or early tomorrow morning. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In New Jersey, the first and only debate between incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Keene Junior and Democrat Rebecca Bennett is scheduled to take place tonight. Keane is the lawmaker whose four month absence from the house went unexplained until he disclosed he was being treated for depression.
They're running for the district that includes President Trump's Bedminster Golf Club. Keen seeking a third term as Republicans work to keep their slim majority in the US House. During his absence he missed more than one hundred votes in the chamber. About one million people in the US live with multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease in which a person's immune cells attack their own nervous system. And Pierce Ping Wong has more on new research that suggests a common virus is a major culprit.
Many people living with MS experience bouts of weakness, vision loss, problems with balance a few times a year. Researchers at Mass General Brigham analyzed blood samples from patients and found active signs of Epstein-Bar virus in the months before these attacks.
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