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throughout Iran overnight in 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 future attacks on its neighbors, and PR's carry con reports from Tel Aviv." 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, Bezish Gianz said Iran would only attack its neighbors if "an attack on Iran originates from those countries." A Gulf official speaking to MP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized

to speak publicly said quote, "We will only believe it if we see it."

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.

"Seven big tech companies are pledging to keep energy cost down and did the AI data

center boom." The critics say the agreement with the Trump administration is non-binding. Tamersbock 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

to not pass on cost to households, a big concern for voters.

Energy Justice Program Director at the Center for Biological Diversity, Gene Sue, says it's good the Trump administration is acknowledging the affordability problem. But there is no actual guarantee, no enforcement mechanism to actually make sure that big tech follows through 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 Merzbock, in Jackson, Wyoming. The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is nearing a month and TSA officers across the country continue to work without pay. In Boise, community members are collecting food donations to help struggling workers and

their families. Cameron Co-Chums, the TSA employee and union leader in Idaho, says Merrell is plummeting among his co-workers right now. People are struggling because they're worried about when their next paycheck is going to be.

They know during the last shutdown that we were kind of forefront to everything, but now there's so many more different things going on in the world. So people are having to, you know, drive Uber after work. Congress remains deadlocked over funding for the agency. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Strict new voting-brie-quirements backed by President Trump have stalled in the U.S. Senate but similar measures are moving ahead in several states, South Dakota and Utah approve bills requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The similar proposal passed the Florida House and supporters in Michigan submitted hundreds of thousands of signatures to place the issue on the November ballot.

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising over its artificial intelligence glasses. NPR's Bobby Allen reports the suit claims Meta has misled consumers about the product's privacy protections. Meta has promised users of its Ray-Band Meta glasses that what's being recorded is not

viewable by the company, but a Swedish newspaper investigation found that subcontractors for Meta were able to watch footage taken with the glasses of intimate material, including bathroom visits and sexual encounters. Now a new lawsuit alleges that Meta failed to disclose how the glasses can be used as a

secret surveillance tool with footage being sent to AI data collection centers.

Meta says whatever is recorded is intended to stay on a user's device, but that occasionally the smart glasses can share footage with contractors. The lawsuit says contractors have at times viewed credit card numbers, nudity, and identifiable faces. Bobby Allen and PR news.

The Labor Department says employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, economists had been expecting a 60,000 increase. The surprisingly weak numbers adds to the economic uncertainty over the war with their run, which has caused oil prices to surge.

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