Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noraram.
Three American service members were killed and five were wounded during the joint U.S. Israeli attack on Iran.
“A U.S. official tells NPR those killed were ground-based troops, not on a ship or”
a war plane. SNPR's Luke Garrett reports the Pentagon says major combat operations continue. United States Central Command reported the first casualties of the operation Sunday morning. The attack against Iran started the day before. On Saturday, Iranian state media confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Kalmani.
Iran vowed retaliatory strikes and launched missiles. President Trump warned Iran against revenge, threatening on social media the U.S. would "hit
them with a force that has never been seen before."
Central Command did not say when or where the U.S. troops were killed and seriously injured. It did report that several other soldiers sustained shrapnel injuries and concussions. Those troops are returning to duty the Pentagon said, Luke Garrett and PR News, Washington. Israeli authorities say at least nine people have been killed in an Iranian missile attack in Central Israel.
“Police say the missile hit a building being used as a shelter.”
Yesterday a missile hit Central Tel Aviv, killing one person. Iran says its former president, Makhmud Ahmadinejad, has been killed in air strikes. If the latest death announced by Iran after the killing of Iran's spiritual leader yesterday, NPR's Jaina Raff has details.
Iran's state media showed Ahmadinejad's portrait framed in black and said he was killed
along with what it called a number of his companions in a rocket attack by Israel in the United States. It gave no further details. Ahmadinejad served as president from 2005 to 2013. He was a strong supporter of Iran's nuclear program.
Meanwhile Iran's current president, Masud Pazashkian, said in a message on state TV that a temporary leadership council is now at work, following the killing of Ayatollah Ali-Hamani,
“the three-person council will govern the country under Islamic law before a panel of Shia”
clerics chooses a new spiritual leader, Jaina Raff and PR News, Aman. European Union ambassadors are holding an emergency meeting on the conflict in Iran today. They're calling for a negotiated solution between Iran, Israel, and the United States. An investigation is underway in Austin, Texas after an early morning shooting in a bar. Police Chief Lisa Davis says police responded to a report of a man with a gun.
This incident started with that calls for a male shooting at Beeford's bar on West 6th Street, officers immediately transitioned, came over, he's 6th to West 6th Street. And we're faced with the individual with a gun and three of our officers return fire, killing the suspect.
Two other people were killed, 14 people were hospitalized, three in critical condition.
This is NPR News. Belgium seized an oil tanker today, believed to be carrying oil in violation of Western sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine. Officials suspect it's part of Russia's so-called shadow fleet sailing under a false flag with false documents to evade the sanctions.
They said it was intercepted overnight in the North Sea with the help of French forces. The federal housing agency HUD wants new restrictions on rental aid. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports a proposal could impose full-time work requirements and a time limit of just two years. The proposed rule is not a mandate, it would allow local housing authorities and private
landlords to impose the requirements if they choose elderly and disabled tenants would be exempt. It's part of a push by HUD Secretary Scott Turner to promote what he calls self-sufficiency. Supporters also say there are such long waiting lists for rental aid, it's more fair to spread it around.
Critics of the proposed rule say most people who can work already do, they just don't make enough to pay market rate rents. A few places have experimented with time limits, but drop them because as the cut-off approached, they worried they'd be pushing people into homelessness. Jennifer Ludden and Pair News, Washington.
At the producer's Guild Awards, one battle after another took the top honor last night. The drama already has won at the director's Guild, the Golden Globes, and the Baptist. The movie has seen as a favorite to pick up an Oscar this year. The Academy Awards are scheduled to be presented March 15th. I'm Nora Rom and PR News in Washington.
