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President Trump says Iran has just given the U.S. a big present.

Trump says it's related to the Strait of Formos as the Pueras Franco-Ordonia's reports.

Trump teased that this latest development is worth a tremendous amount of money.

I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.

And they gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing

to me would deal with the right people.

Trump said it wasn't nuclear-related, but oil and gas-related and tied to the Strait

of Ormuz.

But he would not get into specifics.

Trump has said the U.S. is in productive negotiations with Iran to end the war.

Iran has denied conducting negotiations with the U.S. Franco-Ordonia's and Pueranus,

the White House.

The military is preparing to call up members of the 82nd Airborne Division.

A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that the Pentagon has ordered some 2,000 soldiers

from the 82nd to deploy to the Middle East to marine expeditionary units already sailing

toward the Persian Gulf.

The federal transportation safety board says the vehicle involved in a collision with

a plane landing at LaGuardia Airport did not have equipment to show its location.

Two pilots killed in the crash, dozens, and George Steve Kestinbaum reports.

Investigators zeroed in on what the people in LaGuardia's control tower could see on

their screens before the crash.

As DX is a runway safety system, which allows air traffic controllers to track surface

movement of aircraft and vehicles.

That NTSB chair Jennifer Hammondy said the controllers couldn't see information about

the fire trucks exact location.

So in this case, that ground, that vehicle did not have a transponder.

It's not clear whether different controllers were talking to the pilot and the driver of

the fire trucks on day night.

There were two people in the cab, two people in the tower cab.

Investigators are set to interview the controllers soon.

For NPR News, I'm Steve Kestinbaum in New York.

A jury in New Mexico has found that social media giant META misled consumers from

member station KUNM and Albuquerque Taylor Velasquez has more.

The owner of Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp is now on the hook for $375 million in civil

penalties for violating New Mexico's consumer protection laws.

New Mexico's Attorney General Rao Torres calls a verdict a historic win, making the

state the first to hold a tech company liable for harming young people.

Torres says META knew its platforms posed risks to children, ignored internal warnings,

and misled the public.

META says it will appeal.

Either way, the state's case is not over.

It's also asking the company to be required to change its business practices.

For example, by implementing stronger age verification and removing predators from its

platform.

For NPR News, I'm Taylor Velasquez in Albuquerque.

And you're listening to NPR News.

Democrats are celebrating a special election victory in Florida, voters in a legislative

district that's home to President Trump's Mar-a-Lago have chosen Emily Gregory to fill

a state house seat.

The president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee says the seat is the

29th that Democrats have flipped since Trump returned to the White House.

Missouri Supreme Court has upheld the state's congressional map aimed at adding another

Republican to Congress in the November midterm election.

The four-to-three decision is a legal victory for President Trump in the nationwide redistricting

battle.

But it may not be the final word, opponents have submitted more than 300,000 petition

signatures in an attempt to put the new map to a statewide vote.

There are more older drivers on the road in the U.S. and ever before.

Imperial Rolls reports that many families face hard choices about when it's time for

aging loved ones to stop driving.

States have policies that are supposed to stop risky drivers from renewing their licenses.

But in practice, it often falls to adult children to decide when it's time to take the

car keys away from an aging parent.

Jacqueline Hamilton struggled to convince her 94-year-old father to stop driving and finally

took matters into her own hands.

The hard part was if I didn't take the keys, then anything that would happen after that

point would be my fault.

Americans are keeping their driver's licenses for longer than ever before.

In some cases, too long, according to safety advocates.

But crash rates for older drivers have been falling, and many are reluctant to give up

driving because they're afraid of losing their mobility.

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