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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. Vice President vance says the U.S. holds all the cards in the deal with Iran, but there are many questions about the memorandum of understanding that extends the ceasefire, reopens the Strait of Hormuz and opens negotiations for a final peace deal. NPR's Greg Myre says the Iranian backed militant group Hamas's attack on Israel in October of 2023 ignited a firestorm.
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Now we're at a point where we're trying seeing this effort to try to stop this in a sense work your way down that escalation ladder that the US And Israel not going to attack Iran and vice versa under this agreement, trying to sort out the Israeli presence in Lebanon. Gaza is still there as a festering sore. So the region has been thrown into upheaval. It's changing. It's going to be realigned. Every country has to rethink itself.
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NPR's Craig MyReporting AAA says the cost of a gallon of regular gas in the US has slipped below $4 a gallon, dropping 52 cents in the last month. It's still a dollar higher than it was before the war with Iran, though. The price of jet fuel, that's also lower. But as NPR's Joel Rose reports, it could take a while before passengers see cheaper fares.
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When jet fuel prices shot up this spring, airlines responded by raising ticket prices and fees. Now fuel costs are coming back to earth. The average price for a gallon fuel in the US dropped this week to less than $3, according to the tracking firm Argus. That's down more than $2 per gallon from the peak in April. But aviation consultant Michael Boyd says don't expect the airlines to give those price hikes back right away.
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If people will pay it, why would you take it back?
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Boyd says travelers have shown they're willing to pay higher airfares, at least so far. And airlines face rising costs across the board, including labor. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
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The Justice Department is offering nearly a billion dollars in public safety grants to cities and police departments across the country. But as NPR's Meg Anderson reports, local officials have to work with federal immigration officers to get the money.
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The grants can be used for things like hiring new officers, school safety initiatives and police mental health. Tahir Duckett of Georgetown University says the stipulations about cooperating with immigration authorities are meant to be a carrot.
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To get the money, they are trying to take dollars that local agencies have been depending on for years and saying, oh, well, if you want these dollars, then you need to help us out with our immigration enforcement work.
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In a statement, the DOJ told NPR the suggestion that illegal immigration is not related to public safety is, quote, ludicrous, though studies show immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than and citizens. Meg Anderson, NPR News.
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You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool in Washington, D.C. has turned a deep, florid green with algae just days after the Trump administration completed a $14 million renovation promising clear blue water. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports. The bloom comes as events marking America's 250th anniversary are are set to get underway on the National Mall.
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Experts say algae has long been a problem of Washington's iconic reflecting pool, frustrating officials across multiple administrations. Chris Gobler is a marine scientist at Stony Brook University.
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That reflecting pool is kind of the ideal environment for the growth and overgrowth of algae. Algae love it when it's warm. They love it when there's lots of nutrients, and they love it when they're not being flushed out of an environment.
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Gobler says algae returned after a major reconstruction project in 2018 and is likely to remain a challenge without continuous water flow or more aggressive filtration. The Trump administration says everything is operating normally and describes the algae as part of a normal start up process following the renovation. Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.
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A panel of the Food and Drug Administration today recommended approval of Moderna's new flu vaccine that's made with the same MRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID 19 pandemic. That puts it a step closer, closer to hitting the US Market. The FDA says the benefits of M PLU visa far outweigh the risks for preventing the flu in people ages 50 and up. Moderna is seeking full approval for the vaccine while it conducts additional testing. I'm Jeanine Herbst, NPR News.
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