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day President Trump says he was justified in launching strikes against Iran this past
weekend, speaking at the White House Wednesday, Trump said the U.S. needed to act before Iran did.
“I think we have great support, and I think if we didn't do it first, they would have”
done it too, Israel, and give us a shot of that was possible. The Trump administration has been criticized for giving conflicting reasons for military action against Iran, and Democrats accuse the President of launching a war of choice. But they failed to push to a war-power's resolution in the Senate Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked the measure in a largely party-line vote.
The House is expected to take up its own war-power's resolution on Thursday.
In Texas, the Austenary Lawmaker, James Talerego, one Tuesday's Democratic Senate primary,
that went partly fuel by Latino voters. But as MPR has actually low-peas reports, this growing part of the state is not particularly aligned with either party. Counties along Texas's Southern border, which have very large Latino populations, were a key part of James Talerego's defeat of Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket.
Early turnout figures show he won about two-thirds of the vote in those South Texas counties. He also garnered significant support among Latinos in metropolitan areas. These could be a worry for Texas Republicans who saw significant gains among those voters in 2024, and redrew congressional lines in their favor last year with the expectation that most of these voters would continue to support the party.
“A fortability was a key part of Talerego's campaign, which is historically one of the most”
important issues for Latinos. Ashley Lopez and B.R. News.
Montana Republican Senator Steve Dane dropping his bid for reelection to a third term,
means with through his name Wednesday, just minutes before Montana's deadline for candidates to file for the November mid-term election. Shortly before the deadline, Montana's Republican U.S. Attorney Kurt all may filed for Dane's seat and was quickly endorsed by President Trump. A report released Wednesday by the Rhode Island Attorney General documents decades of
sexual abuse and the diocese of Providence from Ocean State Media David Wright reports. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Narona's 300-page report documents in all two familiar pattern, priests accused of abuse, shuffled from parish to parish by local bishops. Bishops knew, bishops knew, and did nothing, worse than nothing, they transferred priests.
“According to the report compiled from church records dating back to 1950, the diocese transferred”
31 priests to new jobs, at least five times each. In response, the bishop of Providence said that the diocese adopted new safeguards decades ago, and that there are no credibly accused clergy in active ministry. For NPR News, I'm David Wright, in Providence. And you're listening to NPR News.
The Pentagon has identified the final two of the six U.S. soldiers who were killed a day after the U.S. and Israel launched their attacks against Iran. The defense department says 55-year-old chief warrant officer Robert Marzan of Sacramento. And 45-year-old Major Jeffrey O'Brien were killed Sunday when a drone hit their command center in Kuwait.
The four others killed were identified on Tuesday. They include a Polk County Florida native central Florida Public Media's Marion Summerall reports on the Army Reserve captain. Captain Cody A. Kork was a U.S. Army Reserve soldier who was killed in a drone attack on March 1st in Kuwait, according to the Army Reserve.
The city of Winterhaven says Kork grew up there, attending Lake Region High School and continuing his education at Florida Southern College. Winterhaven's mayor Brian Yates said, quote, "Our community is proud of the life he lived and the service he gave." Captain Cody A. Kork was 35 years old.
From here news, I'm Marion Summerall in Orlando. A federal judge in New York has dealt a setback to the Trump administration, the judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday that companies that paid terrorist that were struck down last month by the Supreme Court are due refunds. Judge Richard Eaton ordered those refunds to be made with interest.
In a set of Friday hearing for an update on how customs and border protection will carry out the refunds. I'm Giles Snyder. This is MPR News.
