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service person has died of wounds from attacks by Iran.
“Three other U.S. military personnel were killed over the weekend.”
This news comes as the U.S. and Israel continue to attack Iran for a third day. President Trump says the strikes will continue at full force in the mid-East until U.S. objectives are met. Benabira's Franco-Ordonia's reports Trump is not articulated what those objectives are.
President Trump says hundreds of targets in Iran have been hit, including revolutionary
guard facilities in Iranian air to fence systems. He's boasting that Iranians around the world are cheering the death of Iran's Supreme leader, Ali Hamanai. This wretched and violent man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all
across many countries. He has told some media outlets that the offensive could last four weeks, but except for
“those brief phone calls, it's been a very controlled message.”
And without knowing what those objectives are, it's hard to decipher what comes next. Franco, Ordonia's, NPR News.
Meanwhile, Iran continues to fire on its neighboring states that host U.S. military bases
that include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, and Oman. And beer's A.A. Batroni has more. If Gulf Arab states continue to get hit, they have said that they reserve the right to strike back to defend their national security. So that could happen, and that would obviously widen the scope of this war dramatically.
So we've heard the U.K. France in Germany saying they will take steps to defend their interests and those of their allies in the region, and some of those interests are about oil. Saudi Arabia says one of its largest oil refineries was targeted today by Iranian drones
“sparking a fire in temporarily shutting down production there.”
And beer's A.A. Batroni reporting. The FBI's investigating a weekend shooting in Austin as a potential act of terrorism. Two people were killed in 14 others were wounded. From member station KUT, Katie McAfee reports. The Austin Police Department confirmed the suspect as the 53-year-old Indiyaga Diakna, who was fatally shot by police.
Several state lawmakers say he was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal who was wearing a sweatshirt that said "Property of Allah." Austin Police chief Lisa Davis says the suspect opened fire after circling around a popular entertainment district in downtown Austin several times in an SUV. At one point he put its flashers on, rolled down his window, and began using a pistol shooting
out of his car windows. The shooting is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism by a joint task force, which includes members of the FBI, state law enforcement, and APD. For NPR News, I'm Katie McAfee, and Austin. You're listening to NPR News.
Just Lady Melania Trump is scheduled to present over a meeting of the United Nations Security Council today.
The U.N. says it's the first time, a first lady or a first gentleman has done this.
This comes as the U.S. takes the rotating presidency of the Security Council for the month of March. Mrs. Trump is expected to discuss the role of education in advancing world peace. Her U.N. visit comes as the Trump administration is attacking Iran. Today the U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge to a long-established gun law, NPR's
Nina Tottenberg reports the law makes it a crime for a drug user to possess a firearm. The law has been on the books since 1968 and has often been used as a workaround to prosecute individual's 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 "Cinners" by Director Ryan Kougler. It won best cast in a motion picture. Many NPR employees are members of the SAG after Union.
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