"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm no arom.
Israel says that struck multiple sites throughout Iran overnight into this morning, targeting
“infrastructure used by Iran's revolutionary guard.”
Meanwhile, the Iranian president apologized for targeting Gulf countries with drones and missiles, but stopped short of pledging against future attacks on its neighbors. MPR's carry-con reports." Israel's military says more than 80 fighter jets struck targets across Iran and the capital
Tehran, including what it says was the revolutionary guard's main military university,
which it claims "stores war assets." In a televised address Saturday on state media, President Masood Bezishkian said Iran would only attack its neighbors, if "an attack on Iran originates from those countries." A Gulf official speaking to MPR in condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said "We will only believe it if we see it."
A Saturday morning alerts went off in multiple countries in the Gulf, flights were delayed at the Dubai airport after the UAE said air defenses intercepted Iranian missiles and drones. Terry Con and PR News Tel Aviv.
“"Questions are being raised about the cost of the war.”
The think tank, the center-force strategic and international studies estimates the first 100
hours of the war caused $3.7 billion, or nearly $900 million a day.
The war in Iran is affecting energy markets, ship traffic for the straight-of-war moves is Donald, prices are higher for oil, natural gas, and gasoline, and PR's Camilla Dominozki has more. The global benchmark for crude closed for the weekend at a little under $93 a barrel that's up from 70 before the attack, and these higher crude prices have pushed up gasoline more
than 14 percent, which is a bigger week on week jump than we saw after Russia invaded Ukraine." NPR's Camilla Dominozki, seven big tech companies are pledging to keep energy costs down amid the AI data center boom. But critics say the agreement with the administration is non-binding.
“Hanah Merzbach from Mountain West News reports.”
"Amazon Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and XAI all took the right-payer protection pledge. They promised to pay for the energy infrastructure needed to power their data centers, but not pass on cost to households, but big concern for voters. Energy Justice Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, Gene Sue, says
it's good that Trump administration is acknowledging the affordability problem. But there is no actual guarantee, no enforcement mechanism to actually make sure that big tech follows the rule on those promises. Sue says she wants to see rate-payer protections mandated by law. Along with limits on data center carbon emissions.
For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach, and Jackson Wyoming." "This is NPR News."
Powerful storms including tornadoes hit the nation's mid-section yesterday, levelling
homes and bringing down power lines. Officials say four people died in Michigan and two people died in Oklahoma. The National Weather Service says the risk of severe weather continues today from Texas to the Great Lakes. The daylight saving time begins tomorrow.
Most Americans set their clocks ahead one hour. This can mess with one sleep schedule temporarily. A new report suggests that teenagers may be facing a more permanent sleep problem. Areodangular reports. Researchers analyzed a national survey of tens of thousands of American students, roughly
three out of four adolescents across all demographics reported insufficient sleep in 2023. In 2007, that's less than eight hours per night, and the rise didn't appear to depend on certain risk behaviors, like substance use or screen time. Tanner Blumersbach is a psychiatrist at the University of Wisconsin. "It really raises concern about what downstream effects that's having on teenagers mental
health are ability to engage in school." To help, teens might try adopting a consistent sleep schedule, dimming the lights before bed, and sleeping in a place that's cool, dark, and quiet. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. At the Paralympics in Italy, Alexander Masters is the most decorated American winter
per Olympian, one another gold medal today, her 20th. She won the Women's Sprint Sitting Discipline in Parabeyathlon. She'd overcome a series of set-packs this season, including surgery and a concussion. I'm Nora Rom, NPR News, in Washington.
