Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump says he's extending the ceasefire with Iran indefinitely at Pakistan's request as he waits for a peace plan proposal from Tehran.

This comes as last-minute talks between the U.S. and Iran in Pakistan looked uncertain, and a day before the two-week ceasefire was to have expired.

And Pierce Franco, Ordonez has more.

The president said Pakistan, which is mediating the talks, asked him to hold off on the attacks,

but that the U.S. military would continue to stick around and that he was extending the

ceasefire until the talks were concluded, quote,

one way or the other. And this is quite a pivot from just a few hours ago when he warned

that he was ready to restart the bombing. It's not the first time that Trump has made a big

threat before pulling back, such as he did two weeks ago when he threatened to wipe out

the Iranian civilization before announcing the original ceasefire.

And Paris Franco Ordonez.

Trump says the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz continues, and an advisor to the Iranian

parliamentary speaker said on X that the extension by Trump, quote, has no meaning.

A group of voting rights organizations are suing the Justice Department to stop the agency's efforts to scrutinize state election data.

As MPRs-Miles Parks reports, the DOJ has never collected data of this kind before,

and the organizations say it's part of a broader plan to

interfere with the midterms. As part of the Justice Department's efforts to search for voter

fraud under President Trump, the agency has sought to acquire the voter registration lists of every

state, despite the fact that those states have constitutional authority to run their own elections.

A few Republican-controlled

states have turned over their data, but most haven't. DOJ has sued to try to compel those that are

resisting, but has yet to be successful, and a handful of lawsuits have already been dismissed.

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