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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump has said he will send Vice President Vance and other officials to Pakistan for talks with Iran on ending the war, but Vance hasn't yet left Washington. A report from Iran's news agency said Iranian officials were not going to attend. This comes after the U.S. stopped and seized an Iranian flagged vessel. NPR's Aya Batrawi reports.
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Aya Batrawi
In a grainy edited video released by Central Command, U.S. marines are shown rappelling onto an Iranian flagged vessel after US Forces struck its engine.
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U.S. Marine / Military Announcer
Motor vessel Tosca, Motor vessel Toast, vacate your engine room.
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Aya Batrawi
Centcom says the commercial ship failed to comply with repeated US Warnings over a six hour period Sunday as it sailed in the Arabian Sea toward Iran. President Trump says US Marines now have custody of the vessel. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned it will take the necessary action against the US Military for the seizure of that ship. Without elaborating, the US Is blocking the transit of Iranian cargo ships in international waters around Iran as Iran continues blocking most ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, India says it summoned Iran's ambassador for attacks Saturday on two Indian vessels in the Persian Gulf. El Batrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
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Korva Coleman
Starting now, the US Government is opening a website for certain businesses to apply for refunds for some of the tariffs they've paid. The U.S. supreme Court overturned some of President Trump's tariffs this year. NPR's Scott Horsley says importers who paid $166 billion in tariffs can apply.
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Scott Horsley
There are some 330,000 businesses that were wrongly forced to pay those tariffs, and a lot of them are going to be at their keyboards this morning looking for refunds. People will liken this to trying to get tickets to a hot concert or a sporting event. The process is supposed to be pretty straightforward, similar to what the Customs Service does routinely when, say, a company overpays a tariff by mistake. But Customs has never tried to repay this much money all at once.
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Korva Coleman
NPR's Scott Horsley reporting. Separately, a new analysis finds the government could lose nearly half a trillion dollars over a decade if fewer immigrants file their taxes. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports on concerns linked to President Trump's immigration policies.
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Windsor Johnston
The research comes from the Yale Budget Lab, which analyzed how changes in filing behavior could affect federal revenue. Undocumented immigrants already contribute tens of billions of dollars each year through payroll and income taxes. But director of Policy Analysis Richard Prisonzano says if leads to more people to stop filing or to work off the books, that could shrink the number of people paying into the system.
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Richard Prisonzano
If you're discouraging people from doing what they're supposed to do in terms of filing taxes by data sharing across government agencies, you're hurting the baseline number. You know, in one sense, it's kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
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Windsor Johnston
The report warns that kind of shift could erode a key source of federal revenue over time. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
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Korva Coleman
You're listening to NPR News. Police in Shreveport, Louisiana, say a man opened fire on his children yesterday, killing seven of them and their cousin. All the children were 11 years old and younger. The man also shot and wounded his wife and another woman. He was later shot and killed by police. A powerful undersea earthquake rocked northeast Japan today. The U.S. geological Survey says its magnitude was 7.4. It also triggered an immediate tsunami warning for the northeast Japanese coast that's now been downgraded to an advisory. There are no initial reports of damage or injuries, but tens of thousands of people are fleeing. Today is the 130th Boston Marathon. It starts soon. A man from Texas and his granddaughter hope to make history. From member station WBUR, Amanda Beiland has more.
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Amanda Beiland
Running is really important to 67 year old Carlos Sanchez. He's finished more than three dozen marathons over the last, but he says running his first Boston with his granddaughter is an honor. He believes they're the first known grandparent and grandchild to qualify together.
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Mia
It's just something that's really special, you know, being able to achieve this with my granddaughter.
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Amanda Beiland
23 year old Mia says training was tough, but knowing she'd race along. Her grandfather was a huge motivator.
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Mia
He helped me find just the strength and the confidence to do things. And he makes the hard parts of running look so easy.
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Amanda Beiland
Around 30,000 racers in total will participate in this year's marathon. For NPR News, I'm Amanda Beland in Boston.
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Korva Coleman
You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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