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President Trump says the U.S. will suspend bombing Iran for two weeks as long as Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz.

The statement comes after Trump pledged that a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again, if a deal wasn't reached by 8 o'clock Eastern tonight.

Now Trump is posted on social media

that this will be a double-sided ceasefire and that the U.S. received a 10-point peace proposal from

Iran, which he said was workable. Some Iranians formed human chains around power plants and across

bridges today, as NPR's Aibatrowi reports. This is a regime that will fight for its survival.

Iran's president, Masaoud Peschian, posted on X today that Iranians are volunteering

to fight in large numbers.

He says millions are ready to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran, himself included.

And Iran is threatening that if its electricity stations are bombed, it will hit

power plants in Gulf, Arab states, and Israel. There's still round-the-clock mediation efforts led

by Pakistan for Iran to try to open the straight for two weeks in exchange for Trump extending

this deadline by two weeks. NPR's Aibatrowi reporting. The Justice Department's new leader

says nobody except President Trump knows why

Pam Bondi was replaced as Attorney General last week. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made the

comment when asked at an unrelated news conference of Bondi lost her job because she was not

successful in bringing criminal cases against Trump's perceived adversaries.

Blanche said he didn't feel pressure in the job, despite Trump's oft-stated desire for retribution, though he said that the president was entitled to seek investigations against

former government officials, he believes has wronged him.

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman wants to buy Universal Music Group, the record label behind Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift. NPR's Maria Aspen reports on Ackman's latest attempt to become a music mogul. Universal is the world's largest record label, and Ackman has wanted a piece of it for years. Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Hedge Fund first invested in Universal back in 2021, and he sat on its board until last year.

Now he wants to own the whole thing.

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