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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not strike any more Iranian oil

fields and will follow the direction of President Trump.

And without providing any evidence, he also said that Iran no longer has the ability to

enrich uranium or produce ballistic missiles.

NPR's Kerry Khan has the latest.

In a press conference with foreign reporters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his

comments about Iran's decimated nuclear capabilities in Hebrew.

He also said Israel acted alone striking Iran's south-pars gas field.

Iran has since intensified strikes against Gulf energy sites sending oil prices soaring.

Netanyahu said Trump, quote, asked us to hold off on future attacks and we're holding

off.

I don't think any two leaders have been as coordinated as President Trump and I.

As the leader, I'm, you know, his ally.

Trump also says the U.S. did not know about Israel's oil field attack.

However, a person briefed on the matter told NPR that the U.S. and Israel are coordinated

on all targets.

Kerry Khan and PR News Tel Aviv.

A federal jury has found Elon Musk liable for attempting to drive down the social media

platform Twitter's stock prices ahead of his takeover of the company in 2022.

The civil lawsuit accused Musk of making misleading statements about the number of

bots on Twitter and falsely saying that his takeover was temporarily on hold.

Attorneys for the former stockholders say the billionaire was trying to manipulate

the market to get a better deal.

Here's Attorney Mark Malumfi speaking outside the courtroom.

The jury's verdict sends a strong message that just because you're a rich and powerful

person, you still have to obey the law and no man is above the law.

Musk's legal team declined to call them.

The plaintiff's attorneys estimate Musk could owe up to $2.6 billion in damages.

For NPR News, I'm Katie Dupinadetti in San Francisco.

Across the Hawaiian Islands, evacuation mornings are up.

As a second powerful storm dumps heavy rain, north of Honolulu rising waters behind

the 120-year-old Waihiwa dam are racing alarms that the dam could fail.

Hawaii Governor Josh Green is urging residents to seek safety.

The Waihiwa dam was surging up about a half-foot, it looked like per hour, it was going up

quite quickly and that triggered a little bit more emergent response.

We didn't want to wait to evacuate.

More than 200 people were rescued yesterday in torrential rains on the Hawaiian island

of Oahu.

Green says some people were stranded on roofs, some were rescued from the water.

This is the worst flooding the island has had in 20 years and the damage could top a billion

dollars.

This is NPR News.

There were no upsets.

Friday, on the first full day of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, as Greg Ecklin reports,

Michigan State had the closest contest of the day in Oklahoma when the Spartans squeaked

out a 65 to 62 win over Colorado State.

Michigan State is one of 12 teams from the big 10 conference in the Women's Tournament,

the most of any conference, but the Colorado State Rams from the Mountain West Conference

pushed the Spartans to the brink of elimination as CSU coach Ryan Williams expected.

We put a plan together and our kids prepared to win this game, not to keep it close.

That wasn't the plan.

The game's result was one of only three on the day decided by single digits of the four

number one seeds in the women's field, only Texas played on Friday and the Longhorns

defeated Missouri State, 87 to 45.

For NPR News, I'm Greg Ecklin.

After nearly a century of operations, CBS News is shutting down its radio division.

Dozens of people will be part of the company's overall layoffs decisions starting in May.

In 1927, CBS Radio News was the precursor of the entire CBS News operation as it currently

exists, giving voice to legendary broadcasters like Edward R. Murrow and radio executives

like Bill Paley.

In Sag Harbor, New York, police have released the body cam video of the 2024 drunken driving

arrest of pop star Justin Timberlake.

His lawyers fought the release, ultimately they agreed to a redacted version.

I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.

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