Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, the ceasefire holds in Lebanon, but questions

remain about the future of the wider war as Iran claims it has reopened the strait of

Hormuz.

Americans' overall health faces an uncertain future as the cost of care rises after Congress

lets some government subsidies expire.

And a former Kennedy Center staffer speaks out about what he calls the chaos and cronyism

at the institution after President Trump took control.

We are grafting political management strategies onto a non-political

organization.

Welcome to the news hour. Iran said today it has reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping, a move President Trump quickly welcomed on social media.

But even as traffic resumes, the president says the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports will remain in place.

But Iranian officials also said ships must follow designated, restricted routes, and in some

cases must coordinate transit with Iran.

In the meantime, there are new disagreements and competing claims over Iran's nuclear

program days before a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire.

And in Lebanon, the day-old truce between Israel and Hezbollah appeared to hold after weeks of intense fighting.

Special correspondent Simona Fultein begins our coverage.

Tonight, both the U.S. and Iran claim that the Strait of Hormuz is completely open once again.

President Trump and Iran's Foreign minister Abbas Arachhi

announced that full passage of commercial ship traffic

would resume through the critical waterway,

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