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has chosen a new leader. The hard-line "Mushtaba Hamanahi," the 56-year-old son of the slain
“Supreme Leader. He has closed ties with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard and his”
appointment signals a continuation of his father's rule and hard-bind stance. President Trump has said "Hamanahi's son would be an unacceptable choice and Israel's military has vowed to target any new Supreme Leader of Iran." A leading investigative group says new video shows the U.S. missile hit an area around an Iranian school at the start of the U.S. Israeli war in Iran. Iranian authorities say 175
people were killed most of them school girls. If his Janoraph reports the U.S. had denied hitting that school. "Felling cat, based in the Netherlands, says newly available video, shows a U.S. Tomahawk
missile hitting a compound of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps where the elementary
“school was located. The investigative organization said it "Geo located," the footage”
released by an Iranian news agency of a strike in Minab and Southern Iran on February 28th. The finding appears to contradict President Donald Trump's claim that Iran itself hit the school. "Felling cat, noted the U.S. is the only country attacking Iran that is known to use Tomahawk missiles. Israel is not believed to have the weapon." Jane Arraf and Pyrenees, Sulemania in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
President Trump is facing a lot of economic headwinds as the 2026 mid-term election year gets underway and appears moralizing has more.
Despite President Trump's claims that the U.S. economy is roaring like it's never roared before,
job creation is down. The February jobs report showed that the U.S. economy shed 92,000 jobs last month. Oil prices are up, the stock market is down, and in special elections this cycle so far, democratic candidates keep winning despite their parties historic unpopularity. Still, the President continues to take big risks, including pursuing a war that majorities of American voters oppose. Less than 40 percent of Americans tell pollsters they
approve of the war in Iran. Denying President Trump, the rally around the flag effect, President's usually enjoy at the beginning of military conflicts. Maralayan NPR News. "Foting where its 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 Selma. She says it's important to remember." "My husband's family is rooted here in Selma”
and so his dad was actually wanted to people who cross the bridge so his near and dear to our hearts." The violence energized the nation and led to the civil rights movement. You're listening to NPR News. Louisiana's crawfish industry is facing a shortage of workers just as the season gets underway. As male bridges with member-station WWNO reports, the student of the Trump administration's changes in federal work visa policy. Louisiana Agricultural Commissioner Mike Strain explained
to state legislators that the issue isn't a lack of eligible workers. Crawfish peeling plants remain under staffed even with an expanded number of H2B visas. "They simply cannot get their workers and so some of the plants that normally get a hundred hundred and thirty-five workers have gotten zero." The visas allow U.S. companies to hire foreign workers for seasonal agricultural jobs. While the administration recently lifted the cap on visas by an additional 35,000,
the extra visas were distributed via lottery system and only through early February three months after crawfish season began leaving many peeling plants at diminished capacity. Strain says if the crawfish go unpeeled though either go unconsumed or be shipped to Mexico for peeling. For NPR News, I'm Mel Bridges in New Orleans. "At the weekend box office, Disney and Pixar's animated and environmental adventure hoppers debuted in the top spot with an estimated $46 million
in ticket sales. The film has made $88 million globally that against a $150 million production budget.
In second place, Paramount's Scream 7 was $17 million in third place Warner Bros. the bride.
It's struggled debuting with just $7 million that film cost and reported $80 million to produce. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
