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The U.S. and Israel continue to strike targets across Iran.
“Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett says Iran's Navy has been destroyed, and senior military”
leaders have been killed. NPR's Greg Myri reports, Tehran, is still launching retaliatory attacks across parts of the Middle East, but its ability to strike back appears to be weakening. When they say those capabilities are being degraded by the day, now Heggsett acknowledged that Iran will still be able to shoot missiles that's been targeting U.S. embassies and
civilians throughout the region, but thousands and missiles and drones have been shot down by the U.S. forces and other countries in the region. So there's this significant reduction in Iranian fire. NPR's Greg Myri reporting. Turkey says a ballistic munition that was headed toward its airspace from Iran has been shot down.
Officials say there were no injuries.
“As Dory B. Scaron reports, it's a sign that Turkey could be drawn into the growing conflict.”
The munition traveled from Iran over Iraqi and Syrian airspace, before being shot down by a NATO missile defense system, according to a statement from the Turkish Ministry of National Defense, fragments from the interceptor landed in the southern province of Haltai, about an hour's drive from the U.S. and Julek Air Force base. The Defense Ministry says it continues to reserve the right to respond to any hostile act
against the country, and that it will continue consultations with NATO and its allies. NATO spokesperson Alison Hart condemned the attack and said that NATO stands firmly with all allies, including Turkey. For NPR News, I'm Dory B. Scaron, as Dumbledore. As Senate is expected to vote later today on a war power's resolution that would limit
President Trump's ability to continue military action against Iran, the measure would require congressional approval for further U.S. involvement in the conflict. The race for control of Congress is starting to take shape, and PR's Domenico Montenaro reports voters in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas help the first primaries of the mid-term season yesterday.
It's a former Trump Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Wattley against former Governor Roy Cooper.
“Cooper has seen as a big get for Democrats, but remember, this is a state that Trump won”
three times, which may be why Cooper kept his distance from his party referring to himself as someone who would be a "independent senator." In Texas, James Talarico won the Democratic primary, but he's going to have to wait a little
longer to find out who his Republican opponent is, no candidate got 50 percent in the
bitter primary between Senator John Corne and State Attorney General Ken Paxton. So the winner will be decided in a May 26 runoff, Domenico Montenaro and PR News, Washington. This is NPR. Some of the most prominent figures and autism research have created a group to counter ideas coming from the Trump administration, and PR's John Hamilton has more.
It's called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee. It was formed just weeks after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced every member of a similar committee that advises the federal government on autism research priorities. The new group plans to offer alternative guidance. It includes two former directors of the National Institute of Mental Health, leading academic
scientists and doctors of former congressmen and members of advocacy organizations. Most of them have criticized Kennedy's efforts to link vaccines and autism, as well as his support for ideas about the condition that lack credible scientific backing.
The Independent Committee plans to hold its first public meeting on March 19 in Washington.
John Hamilton and PR News. For the first time anthropics chatbot Claude has surpassed a chatGPT in phone-up downloads in the U.S. and will say the surge may reflect growing public support for the company after its recent stand-off with the Pentagon over the use of AI. While some experts have praised anthropics' dances at the goal, Kurt Exe, the industry,
has spent years lobbying to deploy AI in sensitive, high-stake settings, a push that's drawing new scrutiny. Stokes are trading higher at the Sour on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial averages up 325 points, than as a composite up 323 the S&P up 60 points. This is NPR News in Washington.
