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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Iran says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and a statement from Iran's Supreme National Security Council says it will negotiate with the U.S. in Islamabad beginning Friday. Iran issued the statement after President Trump said he's pulling back on threats to attack civilian infrastructure, less than two hours before his Tuesday deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Here's Impey. He said he agreed to suspend bombing. and attacking Iran for two weeks. And that this was subject to Iran agreeing to what he says was the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hamuz, that's that narrow waterway

through which, before this war, 20% of the world's oil was flowing through. Now, he called this a double-sided ceasefire. And he said that all military objectives had been met, but he cautioned that the two sides are still very far apart from any kind of definitive agreement or a long-term peace. Following a ceasefire announcement, oil prices back below $100 a barrel.

But the emergency terrorist President Trump enacted a year ago, struck down by the Supreme Court. President Trump has leveled new ones to replace them from Houston Public Media. Andrew Schneider reports that could drive inflation higher over the coming year. Casey Wright is business manager for Houghton Horns, a small brass instrument store near Fort Worth. Wright says she keeps little stock in the shop, so she had to raise prices almost immediately when the tariffs hit. She says larger stores with deeper inventories have been able to avoid raising. prices so far. If the tariffs continue for another year, you're just going to see prices everywhere just slowly

creep up as people run out of last year's inventory and start having to import more. U.S. businesses have paid more than $150 billion since Trump imposed emergency tariffs just over a year ago. That's according to the small business advocacy group, we pay the tariffs. For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston. Environmentalists and the Mikasuki tribe argued in federal appeals court Tuesday that the immigrant detention facility in Florida's Everglades must wind down to preserve the environment and the tribe. From MECISATION WLRN, Joshua Saviles reports. The Mikasuki tribe says the facility dubbed alligator Alcatraz is interfering with its people's daily lives.

Betty Osceola is an activist and member of the Mikasuki. We can't even go down that road anymore to do what we do on a cultural aspect to honor. our loved ones that have transitioned on. We're being put in a situation to have to look elsewhere to do that. Her tribe and local environmentalists are suing Florida and the federal government to close the detention center because of its cultural and environmental impact. At issue is whether or not operations at Alligator Alcatraz should be halted while their lawsuit is ongoing.

It's unknown when the court will hand down a decision. For NPR News, I'm Joshua Sabios in Miami. This is NPR News. News. Authorities in Turkey are investigating Tuesday's gun battle outside a building that houses the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. Shots are reported to have rung out for at least 10 minutes. One attacker was killed. Two police officers were wounded. Two other gunmen were captured. Turkey's interior minister says the gunman had links to what he said was an organization that exploits religion. He did not name the group. In Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has

signed a bill allowing state officials to designate certain groups as domestic terrorist organizations from member station WFSU. Tristan Wood explains. The legislation allows the state to target groups, freeze funding, and penalize people who support them. Students who support those groups on college campuses could be expelled, and those attending on a visa would be reported to immigration authorities. DeSantis says the legislation will target Islamist extremism. We'll do millions for public safety, millions for education, but never one red set for jihad. Groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations, Florida, worry the measure unfairly targets Muslims and could limit First Amendment protections for all Floridians.

Care, Florida says it doesn't expect to receive the domestic terrorist designation under the law, but would sue if it does. For NPR news, I'm Tristan Wood in Tallahassee. The British government has blocked Kanye West, a rapper now known as Yeh from entering the UK. Yay has been set to headline, had been set to headline this summer's open-air wireless festival in London, but controversy over his anti-Semitic statements prompted widespread outrage. The following the government ban, festival organizers, canceled the event.