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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. The U.S. military says three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded, as part of the joint U.S. is really operation against Iran. They're the first reported U.S. casually, then Paris Greg Myri has more. U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for operations in the Middle East, says that in addition to those killed and seriously wounded, other sustained minor shrapnel injuries. The brief statement
did not provide details. However, the reference to Shrapnel wounds suggest the casualties were caused by the missiles or drones that Iran is firing at U.S. forces in the region on land and at sea. U.S. and Israeli air strikes last June and in the current air campaign have significantly weakened Iran's military, but it still has the ability to carry out deadly attacks.
“In another lethal Iranian strike, a missile hit a civilian area near Tel Aviv on Sunday,”
killing at least nine people. Greg Myri MPR News, Washington. British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer says the U.K. will allow the U.S. to use some of its bases in the Gulf to attack Iran's missile capabilities. In a video message, posted a social media on Sunday, Starmer says Iranian missile attacks threaten British allies, civilians, and military. We were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran, and we will not join offensive action now.
But Iran is pursuing a scorched earth strategy, so we are supporting the collective self-defense of our allies and our people in the region. Britain had previously not allowed the U.S. to use U.K. bases to attack Iran. Starmer also says royal air force jets have intercepted Iranian strikes as part of its defensive operations in the region. Israel and the U.S. continued
striking Iran Sunday for a second day Iran has retaliated with strikes aimed at several
Gulf states and Israel. The air assaults are affecting Gaza. Israel has closed all border crossings into the besiege Palestinian territory, just as Gaza was just starting its recovery. And Piersana Spaba reports. "Prices of basic goods have already started to soar in Gaza since the crossing's closed Saturday. Most of the population relies on aid for survival. That includes the rawfacht crossing. Where emergency medical evacuees had only recently been allowed to leave.
These Israeli military says no medics or you and personnel will be allowed to live or enter Gaza while the borders are closed. The military says the closure of Gaza's crossing will have no impact on aid. And that existence talks of food are quote "expected to suffice for an extended period." But even before this full closure, the U.N. said food rations were cutting half this month and due to insufficient supplies entering the strip, and a Spaba and PR
Gaza city. "And you're listening to NPR news." A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design in the words "Property of Allah killed two people and wounded 14 others in a shooting at a Texas Bar early Sunday, police shot and killed a man who had used both a rifle and a pistol in the attack. The FBI says it's investigating as a potential act of terrorism. The shooter has been identified
as a 53-year-old man from Seneca. Bay Area residents celebrated the life of the country's oldest park-ranger and historian Betty Reed Saskin at a memorial service on Sunday, KQED Spencer Whitney reports. "The sound of Betty Reed Saskin singing ring out. As family members, co-workers and friends support into the Henry J. Kaiser Center
“for the Arts in Oakland to remember the late icon, who died in December at age 104.”
Saskin retired from the National Park Service at 100 years old in 2022. Bay Area resident Kathleen Ridley portrayed Saskin in the stage play called "Sarn My
Name to Freedom," which Saskin attended before she died. "It was amazing and humbling
and terrifying at the same time because you want to do justice to somebody that is so important for the past hundred years." Saskin was also honored for her work to preserve African-American history as a park-ranger, and for opening one of the first black-on-record stories in the Bay Area. For MPR News, I'm Spencer Whitney in Oakland. Nico at Javaria won the PGA Classic played in Florida this weekend after Shane Lowry
melted down on the last three holes. Lowry hit his teeth shut on the 16th of the water leading to a double bogey and then did the same thing on the 17th. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
