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In a joint operation, the U.S. and Israel launched an attack on Iran early Saturday morning
“local time President Trump announced the strike in a video posted to social media.”
The United States military began major combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Iran is reporting attacks her underway in multiple areas of the capital of Tehran. They include a neighborhood where the country's Supreme Leader has his residence and where
the presidential office is based. After the strike's began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the goal of the strikes is to topple Iran's leaders. Iran closed roads and rushed ambulances to areas in Tehran hit by the attacks. It has not announced the extent of casualties, but Iran's health ministry said hospitals
were preparing for them. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hamani is believed to have moved to a more secure location
“as tension rose with the U.S., Iran and neighboring Iraq have closed their airspace.”
In Tehran, one woman told NPR she was hearing the sounds of fighter jets and missiles exploding. She said people had not expected the attack and were panicking trying to get to safety. The Omani mediator in talks this week between Iran and the U.S. had said the two sides had made good progress.
But U.S. President Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the talks. Jain Arath and Pair News, Aman.
And Iran's revolutionary guard says it has launched a retaliatory strike at Israel.
Almost 4,000 doctors have signed on to a letter sent to Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noom, pleading for the release of immigrant children held in detention facilities, Texas Public Radio's Cory Cook reports. Washington, D.C., doctor Anita Patel wrote the letter after she traveled to the
“Ice Detention facility in Dilly, Texas and said she was disturbed by the conditions”
there. It's not just child detention, this is child imprisonment and some standard living conditions. They are knowingly exposing them to potentially deadly infectious diseases. And tell says she wrote the letter because she believes public pressure can lead to changes and how DHS oversees detention facilities.
Immigration legal advocacy group Rice's reports 300 to 500 children in infants are detained by ice on any given day in Texas. I'm Cory Cook and San Antonio. President Trump has ordered all government agencies to stop using AI technology from anthropic.
The company has been in a dispute with the Pentagon because it wants human safeguards over the software's use by the military to fence secretary Pete Higgseth, said on Friday he is also designating anthropic as a supply chain risk. You're listening to NPR news. The retailer target says it will stop selling serious containing synthetic colors by the end
of May.
The company has already been reducing the use of the colors for several years and 85 percent
of its serial sales now come from products without the dyes. It says it will no longer carry brands that refuse to reformulate their cereals. Alberto Cavalo, who is the head of the Los Angeles Unified School District has been placed on administrative leave, Steve Futterman reports. The action by the school board comes two days after the FBI conducted a raid at Carvalho's
home in office. Board of Education today unanimously voted to place Superintendent Alberto Cavalo on paid administrative leave The announcement by Board Executive Officer Michael McLean followed nearly eight hours of meetings behind closed doors. Cavalo has not been charged with any crimes.
Newers reports have suggested the investigation is connected to an ongoing federal criminal probe related to alleged fraud involving an AI company. Carvalho gave the go ahead to an AI chatbot for the school district in 2023. The district says it's cooperating with the federal investigation. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles.
Legendary Singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka has died. He was 86 years old. His many hits from the 60s and 70s included calendar girl, O'Carol, and breaking up is hard to do. He also wrote songs for dozens of artists including Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.
Sedaka kept performing dozens of concerts a year well into his 80s. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
