Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The U.S. and Iran held face-to-face

peace talks in Pakistan today with Vice President Vance leading the U.S. delegation as the

fragile temporary ceasefire continues. President Trump says the talks are going well.

I'm getting a lot of reports. They've been meeting for many hours, as you probably

have noticed. We'll see what happens. Look, regardless, we win. Regardless what happens, we win.

Speaking there as he left the White House to go to Florida, meanwhile, the U.S. sent warships

through the Strait of Hormuz today. M., NPR, Franco, Ordonas, has more.

Two U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers pass through the Strait of Hormuz today.

Now, this would mark the first transit of American warships since the start of the war, you know, which began six weeks ago.

The U.S. says this is the start of a process

of reopening the strait to commercial shipping. NPR's Franco Ordonia's reporting. Around

20 percent of the world's oil transit through that strait. The U.S. Court of International

Trade heard arguments this week in a case challenging President Trump's

authority to impose sweeping new tariffs. And Pierce Windsor Johnston reports the lawsuit was

brought by two dozen states and several businesses. At issue is President Trump's use of a

1974 trade law to justify the measures. The law allows temporary tariffs during a financial

emergency tied to international trade imbalances. Ilya Soman is a law professor at George

Mason University. He tells NPR, the Constitution puts tariff authority squarely in the hands

of Congress. The president has no independent power in this area of his own.

He only has such authority as Congress has given him. And here they have not given him the kind of

vast sweeping authority he's claiming. The outcome of the case could determine how far a president

can go in reshaping trade policy without congressional approval.

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