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The Pentagon sends a U.S. service member, Died last night, from injuries received during

Iran's initial attacks in the Middle East.

This is the seventh U.S. death of the war.

Israel has attacked a civilian oil facility in Iran for the first time in the war.

Since the war began, the price of gasoline has soared, and oil tankered traffic through the straight-of-war moves is disrupted. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Michael Woltz says today, the U.S. military is ready to help. "Our Navy is prepared to start escorting, if necessary, pipelines, new pipelines are

coming online that will move some of the oil and gas around the streets of our moves. But this is precisely the problem, Iran has been threatening to do this, holding the regime hostage for many, many decades, and we are now eliminating their ability to do so." It was interviewed on ABCs this week.

In Israel, public opinion polls show high support for the Iran war.

But a small group of demonstrators protested the war until a V yesterday until the police

broke it up. NPR's Daniel Estron was there.

"We spoke to a person of the police, it's pushing me away, it doesn't want to speak.

Police just announced that in two minutes they're going to be breaking up this protest, they say it isn't illegal protest. The policeman on the last paper just said, "We do not want any kind of unnecessary provocations. This is an anti war protest.

There are only maybe 50, maybe 100 people here, not a large protest at all. What's your name?" "Won Ginton."

"This war has no concrete and a realistic purpose is, I do not trust, but that we are where

this is going to go." Daniel Estron, NPR News, Tel Aviv President Trump says he won't sign any bills until law until Congress passes the Save America Act, which requires proof of citizenship for voter registration. NPR's Luke Garrett has more on the story.

In a social media post Sunday, Trump pushed the GOP controlled Senate to skirt its 60-vote

threshold to move most legislation. It's a requirement that necessitates some democratic buy-in. He won Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota to sidestepped democratic opposition to pass the Save America Act by simple majority. The bill would require voter identification and proof of citizenship for voting.

Most states already require some form of ID. But Thune has said setting aside this 60-vote threshold doesn't have support in the GOP conference. Trump has long railed baselessly against corrupt U.S. elections. voter fraud in the U.S. is extremely rare, and states run elections.

In 2020, Trump attempted to overturn his election loss, courts rejected every effort to challenge the results. Luke Garrett and P.R. News, Washington. You're listening to NPR News in Washington. Voting rights supporters are marking bloody Sunday.

The day in 1965, when Alabama State Troopers beat civil rights marchers on a bridge in Selma, Natasha Harris runs a print shop in downtown Selma. She says it's important to remember. My husband's family is rooted here in Selma, and so his dad was actually one of the people who crossed the bridge.

So it's near and dear to our hearts, and we do shirts commemorate in the bridge crossing for the last, about 10, 15 years. The violence on the bridge horrified the nation and energized the civil rights movement. They lied saving time started today and last for eight months. One Canadian province is making it permanent, and P.R. is a retootchattergy reports.

The change means DACA mornings and brighter evenings throughout the year in British Columbia. Public health researchers say daylight saving time is linked to more car accidents, more strokes, hotstacks, and obesity cases each year. Because the latest start to the day means more people waking up in the dark and going to bed later, which affects our biological clocks and our overall health.

So just say a permanent shift to daylight saving would also be bad for health. But David E.B. the premier of British Columbia says the clock shift is supported by the vast majority of residents. In British Columbia, we tend to wake up in the dark, take our kids to school in the dark in the winter.

We're on the very western edge of the time zone, and so we have dark mornings anyway. People really want that hour at the end of the day. Free to chat with you and P.R. News. Pressing your country, Joe McDonald has died at the age of 84, it was a long time supporter of veterans rights.

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