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Kuwait's defense ministry says several U.S. war planes have crashed in Kuwait.
“The ministry says all pilots bailed out safely.”
There's no word on what caused the crashes or how many planes went down. Separately there are reports of fire and smoke at the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait. U.S. officials are telling Americans Kuwait to remain indoors. The Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon has been firing rockets and drones at northern Israel according to the Israeli military.
Israel is firing back throughout Lebanon, and at least 31 people have been killed. And piers Daniel Esteran reports from Tel Aviv. "The Iranian-backed militia has bala, says it's retaliating against the killing of Iran's supreme leader, and responding to Israeli strikes on his bala over the last 15 months.
Israel says his bala is firing rockets and drones toward Israel's north and near the city of
Haifa. Israel's military has decided not to evacuate Israeli residents from the north, and
“his beefing up troops along the border with Lebanon.”
Israel has ordered Lebanese civilians to evacuate southern Lebanon near Israel's border, and his targeting senior has bala figures. Israeli attacks on Iran, and Iranian attacks on Israel continue. Daniel Esteran NPR News, Tel Aviv." President Trump released a video on his social media account yesterday.
He says three U.S. troops were killed in the attacks this weekend, and five others seriously wounded.
We pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude
to the families of the fallen, and sadly, they will likely be more. Before it ends, that's the way it is." Trump spent the weekend at his Florida estate before returning to Washington yesterday. He's released two videos online, but has not spoken live to the American people about the war. The attacks on Iran over the weekend marked a new phase in relations between
Tehran and Washington. But as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, it's the latest in a long line of clashes between Iran and the U.S. Back in 1953, the U.S. and Great Britain helped orchestrate a coup against Iran's prime minister after he nationalized the country's oil sector.
Two and a half decades later, the Iranian Revolution saw a new theocratic government take power. The same year, a group of Iranian students took 66 Americans hostage in Tehran. Then during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, there was the Iran contra-affaire. More recently, President Trump has taken an aggressive stance toward Iran in both of his terms.
In 2020, the U.S. military launched a drone strike that killed major general Khasim Solamani, who led Iran's elite Cuds Force. And last year, American and Israeli forces bombed several Iranian nuclear sites, an escalation of the years-long campaign to deter the country from pursuing a nuclear weapon. Joe Hernandez NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Police in Austin, Texas, have identified this weekend shooter at a local bar. It's a 53-year-old man, and Diyaga Diakne. He is suspected of killing two people before he was shot to death by police. Diakne is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Senegal. FBI officials say this is being
investigated as a potential act of terrorism.
“The Supreme Court here's arguments today in an important gun case testing a federal law.”
It makes it a crime. For drug users to possess a firearm, it's the same law used to prosecute President Biden's son Hunter. NPR's Nina Tottenberg reports. The law has been on the book since 1968, and has often been used as a work around to prosecute
individual suspected of other crimes. It was the law used to prosecute President Biden's son Hunter for illegal possession during the time he admitted he was a drug addict. In today's case, the government describes the defendant as a drug dealer with ties to terrorists, but he's not been charged with being a terrorist or a drug dealer.
When his home was searched, however, he did admit to recreational use of marijuana, an admission that led to his prosecution for what the government calls persistent drug use of marijuana while in possession of a gun. Nina Tottenberg and PR News, Washington. The Screen Actors Guild Actors Awards were presented last night. It was a big evening for the horror film Centers by Director Ryan Cougler, Centers
won best cast an emotion picture. Many NPR employees are members of the SAG after Union. you're listening to NPR.
