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President Trump, Vice President Vance and Defense Secretary Hegsev, were among the leaders
“who attended the dignified transfer of six U.S. soldiers killed less Sunday in Kuwait.”
In Piers' Tamariki reports, they were the first American service members killed in the
U.S. war with Iran. At Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, President Trump saluted the fallen, wearing a white U.S. baseball cap and bright red tie. Trump and the other dignitaries stood on the tarmac in silence as the six flag draped transfer cases were carried from a military aircraft to waiting vans.
The soldiers were all killed in Kuwait a day after Operation Epic Fury began. Their family members were on hand and hidden from view for the solemn event as the remains of their loved ones were brought back to U.S. soil. Earlier, Trump described them as heroes. He said these losses are the way it is in war, but "we're going to keep it to a minimum."
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“Iran backed militias in Iraq fired rockets at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad today, according”
to Iraqi security forces.
There were no immediate reports of casualties. The Iran-linked militias also targeted the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq as empires Jane Iraq reports. This was the sound of a rocket being intercepted above the American embassy in Baghdad. The video taken by a resident of an apartment complex across the street from the U.S. mission.
The rockets were launched from Baghdad in Iraqi security official told in PR. He asked her and made anonymous because he was not authorized to speak publicly. Iraq's Prime Minister ordered security forces to find and arrest those responsible for the attack. In the Kurdish capital, Erbil, three drones were intercepted with no casualties or significant
damage.
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Deadly storms moved across the Midwest in Great Plains last night, spotting more than a dozen reported tornadoes. The storms left at least four dead in Michigan and two in Oklahoma with more than a dozen people injured. This and wheel are with member station KOSU reports on the situation in Oklahoma.
Oak Mulgi County Emergency Management Officials say power crews and other responders weren't able to do their work in that area Saturday morning because so many people were trying to see the damage. These storms came just a day after a mother and daughter died in their car in Western Oklahoma. Emergency Management Officials say they were struck by an unconfirmed tornado.
Governor Kevin Stit has declared a state of emergency for eight counties in Northeast Oklahoma. Across the state, four Western counties are still under a state of emergency after wildfires devastated hundreds of thousands of acres in late February. For MPR News, I'm Grayson Lealer in Oklahoma City. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
The Broadway Leagues says nearly 20% of theater tickets are being snapped up by people attending musicals and plays on their own. That's a double what it was a couple of years ago. And here's Chloe Velton reports, a theater operator is now taking steps to actively encourage audience members to fly solo.
60 people signed up for live theater operator ATG Entertainment's inaugural solo seats event in San Francisco recently. The tickets included a discounted orchestra seat for the Broadway musical The Notebook on tour, a pre-show mixer with other solo seats and a free drink.
There to go on Maria Saqada says this is her first time seeing a live show on her own.
Social psychologist Bella De Paolo says solo leisure is booming, allowing to rising economic independence and longer life-expectancies. ATG says it plans to expand solo seats nationwide, Chloe Velton MP on news. National Symphony Orchestra's executive director is quitting. Gene Davidson had planned to stay until the group, which is the last classical music
organization still at the Kennedy Center, hit its 100th birthday in 2031. But now she says she's leaving to take a job at the Wallace Annemberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. This after several prominent artists who are collaborating with the NSA so said they would no longer work with the Kennedy Center including composer Philip Glass and soprano
Renee Fleming. I'm Gene Inherbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
