NPR News: 04-13-2026 6PM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.3 | California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell says he will resign from Congress following multiple sexual assault allegations made against him. |
| 0:12.3 | He had been seen as a frontrunner in California's gubernatorial race before dropping out yesterday after the accusations surfaced. |
| 0:19.5 | In his statement, he says he will fight what he called a |
| 0:22.2 | false allegation against him, but added, quote, I must take responsibility and ownership for the |
| 0:27.3 | mistakes I did make. Swalwell was one of four House members, two Democrats and two Republicans |
| 0:32.4 | facing possible expulsion over alleged misconduct. The temporary ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran appears to be |
| 0:39.2 | holding, though talks over the weekend produced no deal to end the conflict. President Trump announced |
| 0:44.5 | a blockade of Iranian ports today in an attempt to force it to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:50.1 | Ambassador Wendy Sherman, the lead negotiator of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal under former President Obama, |
| 0:56.4 | said it was unrealistic for the Trump administration to expect to strike a deal in one day. |
| 1:01.6 | You have to understand the culture. This is a culture of resistance. They don't give in easily. |
| 1:06.6 | You have to be pretty tough to make progress. So I think now they feel like it's a setup. The Trump |
| 1:14.5 | administration just wants full capitulation. And that's not likely to happen. Meanwhile, Israel is |
| 1:21.5 | continuing its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Lebanon's health ministry says Israeli |
| 1:26.8 | air strikes have killed |
| 1:28.0 | 2,089 people. Crude oil prices are hovering around $100 as markets continue to watch |
| 1:35.3 | what's happening in the Strait of Hormuz. As NPR's Kamila Dominooski reports, the last |
| 1:39.6 | week's ceasefire deal brought prices down, but President Trump's blockade sent them back up today. |
| 1:44.9 | This past weekend, 14 vessels per day passed through the Strait of Hormuz, according to the |
| 1:48.7 | trade data platform, Kepler. That's down sharply from the pre-war average of 100 a day, and that's |
| 1:53.5 | before any U.S. blockade was imposed. Because ships take a long time to travel by sea, the world |
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