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U.S. Central Command says forces have struck more than 1,200 targets since the war began early Saturday.
“So, as the U.S. is going after Iran's key military sites, the Trump administration”
says Iran has repeatedly ignored warnings to hold its nuclear program, the president defended the operation again today, projecting it could run four to five weeks. At least four U.S. service members in Kuwait died as a result of the war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffed and Cain Spoker earlier today.
We expect to take additional losses, and as always, we will work to minimize U.S. losses.
But as the Secretary said, this is major combat operations. Iranian forces have launched retaliatory strikes on U.S. partners in the region, and Piazza Batrawi is in Dubai. It's not just here, it's also a Abu Dhabi, which is a few hours drive away. They've also been targeted, but it's across the Gulf.
So we've seen oil installations now also hit in Saudi Arabia and in Qatar, shutting down the Saudi Arabia's biggest oil refinery. There's been some suspensions there today.
“Also, Qatar's LNG gas production has been suspended.”
Qatar is one of the world's biggest exporters of natural gas. NPR is a Batrawi, NPR is Camilla Dominozki reports tanker traffic through the straight of Hormuz, has halted due to the risk of attack. About a fifth of global oil trade passes through the straight of Hormuz, and even more than a fifth of the world's liquified natural gas, or LNG, used for heating an electricity.
Despite threats, Iran has never closed the straight before.
Claudio Gallimberti is with rice dead energy. We have not seen anything like this in pretty much the history of the straight of Hormuz. Higher oil and natural gas prices will drive up costs for gasoline, electricity, and inflation overall. The U.S. is the world's top oil producer, and the number one exporter of LNG.
So higher prices are a boon to some U.S. companies, Camilla Dominozki, and B.R. News. More than a dozen U.S. military aircraft have left American bases in Spain after the
“Spanish government denied permission for the bases to be used in the offensive in Iran.”
And B.R.s. Miguel Masey as reports from civil. The two military bases in the south of Spain have been used by the U.S. since 1953. More on houses in their base, while the coastal town of Rotta is home to the U.S. Navy. Monday, Spain's defense minister, Margari Tarroblis, confirmed that they had not advised the use of the bases to support ongoing U.S. operations in the Middle East.
"In this moment, the U.S. government said that the U.S. and Israel are having with the support of an international resolution, and therefore the bases are not available to them. On Saturday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez came out against the U.S. and Israel's operation in Iran.
Mending equal to immediate de-escalation or respect of international law, Miguel Masey as NPR News, civil, Spain. U.S. talks are trading higher, the sour with the Dow up 14 points. This is NPR News." The federal government's expanding work requirements for recipients of the federal
food assistance program known as SNAP, a took effect today, Thai Jones Cox as a vice-president for food assistance at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. New law expanded that three-month time limit to apply to older adults up to age 65, who we know are more likely to face age-related discrimination in the job market, and they tend to have more work-limiting health conditions, even if they aren't receiving disability benefits.
It also expanded it for the first time to parents, grandparents, and other caretakers of kids as young as 14. The family of Baltimore native Henry Edelax had a their second lawsuit with a major biotech company, Lexel's have been used to develop major medical breakthroughs like the Polio vaccine and the HVV vaccines.
Here's WIPR Scott Mosseoni. The Lax family have settled their lawsuit with Novartis, marking another win for the descendants of a black woman whose cells were taken and used for scientific research without her consent. The Lax family settled with thermo-fisher scientific in 2023. The amount of both settlements has not been released.
Henry Edelax was receiving medical care for cervical cancer at a segregated ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951 when doctors took samples from her tumor. The doctor's family could replicate her cells outside of her body, but first discovery of its kind. Since then, more than 100,000 scientific publications and numerous medical innovations have originated
from the use of these cells.
Lexel's family was never compensated for her contribution to medical science.
From PR News, I'm Scott Masseyoni in Baltimore. It's NPR.
