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Right this moment’s high tales
Iran is evaluating the Trump administration’s newest proposal to finish the warfare, Iran’s international ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei mentioned yesterday. President Trump says the U.S. is on the verge of a deal, and the Iranians are determined to make one. However there has not but been a definitive Iranian response to the U.S. proposal.
A container ship sits at anchor as a small motorboat passes within the foreground within the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Might 2.
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- 🎧 Trump has mentioned that the U.S. has gained the warfare, however only a few of his aims within the battle have been met, NPR’s Mara Liasson tells Up First. The U.S. has not pulled its navy forces from the world. Trump has once more mentioned Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. However the president hasn’t been proud of what Iran has informed him on that matter to date, Liasson says. Many U.S. allies and adversaries are concluding that Trump is making up his speaking factors concerning the battle as he goes, she provides. They consider that he desires to withdraw as quickly as attainable as a result of the warfare in Iran is politically damaging him and his social gathering throughout a midterm 12 months.
Massive oil corporations are starting to report their quarterly earnings, which present they’ve been considerably affected by the warfare in Iran and its impression on oil costs. The U.S. intervention in Venezuela has additionally performed a significant function. To date, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Chevron have shared their reviews, with extra corporations set to observe.
- 🎧 This quarter highlighted an accounting quirk: Chevron and Exxon’s income seem like down within the quick time period, however they are going to truly be up in the long run, NPR’s Camila Domonoske says. A lot of the income the businesses have created from promoting oil at increased costs have not been recorded but as a result of it takes time to bodily ship these shipments. Exxon mentioned that if you happen to consider these deliveries, its income are twice what they present on paper. The businesses anticipate that costs will stay excessive and will get increased even when the Strait of Hormuz reopens. Domonoske says that is as a result of restoring manufacturing takes time, and the world will need a variety of oil to rebuild stockpiles. Excessive costs on the pump pose a danger to grease corporations as a result of in the event that they persist for too lengthy, demand drops and the financial system may crash.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is assembly with Pope Leo XIV on the Vatican at the moment. His go to comes after weeks of assaults from Trump in opposition to the primary American pope. Leo has strongly criticized the U.S. and Israel’s warfare on Iran, advocated for diplomacy and warned in opposition to the usage of pressure. Final month, Trump labeled Pope Leo as “weak” and “horrible on international coverage.” On Monday, Trump mentioned that the pope was “endangering a variety of Catholics” by opposing the warfare.
- 🎧 Rubio has the powerful job of exhibiting respect to Pope Leo whereas additionally representing an administration whose chief has repeatedly attacked him, reporter Megan Williams says. He should keep away from irritating the Vatican in methods Vice President Vance — who claimed Catholic teachings endorse a harsh crackdown on immigration and different points — has. With midterm elections six months away, the White Home would not need conservative Catholic voters to suppose Trump is anti-pope. Rubio may also meet with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who till not too long ago was one of many president’s closest allies in Europe. However attacking the pope would not go over effectively in Italy. She has referred to as Trump’s feedback unacceptable, and Trump turned on her after she defended Leo. Rubio and Meloni are prone to speak about Iran of their assembly, Williams says.
Marketing campaign staffers are making hundreds of {dollars} by betting on their very own candidate on prediction markets utilizing personal polling information. A marketing campaign staffer, talking on the situation of anonymity out of concern for his or her future employment, informed NPR they doubted the outcomes of an unreleased ballot exhibiting their candidate up by quite a bit in a decent race. The staffer knew the ballot would shake up the prediction markets and that it did not align with the marketing campaign’s inner numbers. The staffer and others began making bets earlier than the ballot got here out. The staffer’s wager was verified by prediction market information reviewed by NPR. In latest weeks, the favored prediction market Kalshi has banned and fined a number of political candidates for putting bets on themselves. These wagers elevate considerations about how marketing campaign operatives would possibly exploit personal info for fast monetary acquire amid an unsettled authorized panorama.
Right this moment’s hear
The Mariachi Brothers Antonio, Joshua, and Caleb Gámez-Cuéllar stand in entrance of Gruene Corridor forward of their efficiency as a gap act for nation singer Kacey Musgraves in New Braunfels, Texas on Might 4, 2026. The three brothers had been not too long ago detained by ICE together with their mother and father and held for 13 days on the detention heart in Dilley, Texas.
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Mariachi brothers Antonio, Caleb and Joshua Gámez-Cuéllar reside a dream shared by 5 generations of their musical household. However their journey thus far wasn’t easy. Federal immigration authorities detained the younger brothers and their mother and father earlier this 12 months after a required check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They had been launched following bipartisan outcry from Texas politicians. The household got here to the U.S. from Mexico in 2023 by means of a Biden-era program referred to as CBP One, which allowed them to stay legally within the U.S. whereas their asylum claims had been thought-about. Now, as they look forward to a brand new immigration courtroom date, the brothers have opened for eight-time Grammy Award winner Kacey Musgraves. The nation singer heard about their story and invited them on the Texas leg of her Center of Nowhere tour. Take heed to snippets of the trio’s efficiency and skim extra about their story.
Deep dive
Setting low-grade fires, referred to as prescribed burns, might help filter out overgrown brush and useless materials that fuels extra excessive wildfires. In 2025, managed burning fell by virtually half below the Trump administration.
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The U.S. Forest Service is coming into this 12 months’s fireplace season with considerably much less work accomplished than in earlier years to handle the dry, flammable vegetation that may result in catastrophic fires. Final 12 months, the Forest Service lowered vegetation on virtually 1.5 million fewer acres than in 2024, in line with an evaluation of the company’s information by NPR and firefighting specialists. This can be a important lower from greater than 4 million acres of hazardous vegetation work accomplished over the last 12 months of the Biden administration. As situations have grown hotter, the buildup of dense vegetation has fueled excessive fires which have torn by means of huge stretches of land. The Forest Service misplaced 16% of its workforce as of final summer time as a part of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut back the federal government’s dimension.
- 🔥 Managed burns enhance forest well being and provides wildland firefighters a greater likelihood of preventing forest fires in difficult situations.
- 🔥 The Forest Service has lengthy mentioned that prescribed burns are a precedence. In 2022, the company set a aim to cut back flammable fuels on a further 20 million acres over the following decade.
- 🔥 Prescribed burning fell to about 900,000 acres in 2025, in line with an NPR evaluation of company information. In each 2023 and 2024, it reached over 1.6 million acres.
- 🔥 Forest Service chief Tom Schultz testified that the company had employed roughly 9,700 firefighters as of early March, a slight improve from final 12 months. Firefighting specialists say these new hires do not essentially substitute key help employees that was misplaced.
- 🔥 As wildfires grow to be extra excessive, company personnel have much less time to cut back vegetation, setting the stage for even bigger blazes, specialists say.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
On June 1, 1980, Ted Turner launched CNN at a transformed Jewish nation membership in Atlanta.
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- CNN founder Ted Turner died yesterday on the age of 87. Earlier than his eightieth birthday, he introduced he had Lewy Physique Dementia, a degenerative illness that causes dementia and muscle failure.
- On this week’s version of Far-Flung Postcards, NPR’s Katerina Barton takes readers to the village of Torosiaje in Indonesia. She arrived on the location on a water taxi to the sundown view of colourful stilted homes perched over the Molucca Sea.
- A 3rd sloth died on the Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens on Monday. It was one in every of not less than 61 imported from South America for Sloth World, a canceled Orlando attraction. In keeping with state information, not less than 34 of these sloths have died. (through Central Florida Public Media)
This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
