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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he's extending the U.S. Iranian ceasefire indefinitely, saying on social media that it will continue until Iran submits a proposal to end the war, and it's discussed by both sides. He says Pakistan asked him to hold off on attacking Iran pending that plan from Tehran. |
| 0:22.1 | This comes hours after Trump this morning said he was ready to resume bombing. |
| 0:27.2 | The ceasefire had been set to expire tomorrow night, which was already an extension of the two-week pause in fighting. |
| 0:34.5 | Florida Democrat Sheila Scherfellis McCormick has resigned from Congress. |
| 0:39.6 | This is a day before the House Ethics Committee was set to meet to recommend a punishment for more than two dozen ethics violations. |
| 0:47.4 | And here's Eric McDaniel has more. |
| 0:49.5 | Prosecutors say the representative and her family stole $5 million in federal disaster funds through their health care company, which the government alleges was overpaid for services related to COVID-19 vaccinations. |
| 1:00.8 | The third term congressman who denies wrongdoing criticized the ethics process, saying the committee refused her attorney's request for time to prepare her defense and moved forward during an ongoing federal criminal process. |
| 1:11.3 | There's no fixed timeline for an election to replace her in the safe blue seat. |
| 1:14.9 | State law gives Florida's Republican governor broad latitude on when to schedule a special election. |
| 1:19.8 | House Democrats may now move to expel Republican Representative Corey Mills, |
| 1:23.8 | who also faces an ethics investigation. |
| 1:26.3 | Eric McDaniel, NPR News, the Capitol Building. |
| 1:29.3 | The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, |
| 1:34.8 | has been indicted by the Justice Department on federal fraud and money-related charges |
| 1:39.6 | connected to its past use of paid confidential informants to infiltrate extremist groups. |
| 1:46.0 | CEO Brian Farrer says they use the informants to gather information on the activities of radical violent groups |
| 1:51.9 | and shares it with law enforcement. The FBI cut ties with SPLC in 2025, calling it a partisan smear machine. |
| 2:00.0 | Farr says the group will vigorously defend itself. |
| 2:03.7 | Businesses can request refunds for tariffs they've paid now that the Supreme Court found that they |
| 2:09.1 | were illegal, but consumers can't. And Pierre Stephen Besaha has more. |
| 2:13.9 | Companies can try to pass refunds along to consumers, but it's nearly impossible to determine |
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