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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President Trump says that the U.S. will withdraw from Iran in two to three weeks. He also says he has had one goal in mind during this conflict: preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Trump also appeared to reverse previous comments about reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying that countries dependent on the oil passing through the Strait will have to secure it themselves. Trump is…

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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Six years ago in the spring, as COVID-19 cases grew in distant China, Britain was torn between sealing the country off and letting daily life continue its restless hum. For people who lived through it, those weeks — and the subsequent months — were a strange state of upheaval. Today, that collective experience is etched into London’s landscape. Raised by ordinary citizens in 2021, the 1,640-foot-long National Covid Memorial Wall stretched along the bank of the River Thames, directly…

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People demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s expected arrival on April 01, 2026 in Washington, DC. Al Drago | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Wednesday on whether an executive order by President Donald Trump can upend what has long been the constitutional guarantee of citizenship for people born in the U.S., regardless of their parents’ immigration status.Trump was in the courtroom for the arguments, a first for a sitting president.The White House on Tuesday evening issued Trump’s daily schedule for Wednesday, which included him attending the arguments in the birthright…

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A spokesperson for Turning Point USA says he is encouraged by pushback against conspiracy theories about the assassination of the group’s founder Charlie Kirk last year that have gained traction. “My biggest beef is with this Daily Mail headline,” Andrew Kolvet, a close friend of Kirk and media personality on the right, said during an appearance…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Russian military plane crash in annexed Crimea has killed six crew and 23 passengers, Russian news agencies reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing the Defense Ministry.The An-26 military transport plane was carrying out a scheduled flight over the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, the reports said. The military lost contact with the plane around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.PLANE CRASH IN RUSSIA’S FAR EAST LEAVES 48 DEAD An An-26 plane is pictured at a base in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on March 9, 2014.…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A climber who plunged 30 feet down a Colorado mountainside was rescued after firefighters spent hours carrying out a complex high-angle rescue, officials said.Crews responded around 2:17 p.m. Monday to North Cheyenne Cañon, where the injured climber was located more than 400 feet above the road in rugged terrain, the Colorado Springs Fire Department said.Firefighters hiked up the steep terrain to reach him and immediately began treating his critical injuries.Rescuers then built a high-angle rope system to lower the climber safely down the mountainside. Specialized rescue teams worked for nearly three hours…

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The draft will be in Pittsburgh in less than a month and the Colts have seven picks to try and address six varying degrees of need. Andrew Aziz gave us these six needs last week and I not only agree with the positions, but the order of importance as well. A quick recap of the article lists or needs as: EDGE Rusher, Off Ball LB, WR, Safety, OL depth and RB depth, in that order. I think most of us are hoping to check that EDGE Rusher box off of the list before the draft, because without an option to…

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Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO Charlie Scharf discusses the resilient U.S. economy amid geopolitical risks and market volatility on ‘Mornings with Maria.’ Companies in the private sector added 62,000 jobs in March, payroll processing firm ADP said Wednesday. The figure is above economists’ estimates of a gain of 40,000 jobs. The prior month’s payrolls number was revised higher to a gain of 66,000 from an initially reported gain of 63,000.”Overall hiring is steady, but job growth continues to favor certain industries, including health care,” said ADP chief economist Nela Richardson. “In March, this solid performance was accompanied by a boost…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., said an alleged Iranian state actor recently targeted him with a phishing scheme disguised as a television interview request, in what he described as an apparent effort to access his personal email account.”A skilled impersonator created something appearing just like Newsmax to attempt to do an interview with me,” Fine told Fox News Digital in an interview, explaining that his staffer began interacting with the message in email, as the office normally does, before realizing “the links didn’t work.” The phishing scheme was allegedly designed to…

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