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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. The Pentagon says another U.S. military service member has died from wounds sustained during Iran's initial rather counterattack a week ago. That brings the number of U.S. troops killed in action so far in the war with Iran to seven. Senkhan says the service member was seriously wounded in the attack on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and idlesnite. Yesterday, a dignified transfer of the other six service members
was held at over Air Force Base in Delaware. In Iran, a panel of senior clerics has named a new supreme leader to lead the country and appears Jackie Northam reports the choice signals continuity for Iran's hard-line regime. A panel of 88 clerics chose overwhelmingly to make most of a hamanayi Iran's new supreme leader. He's a 56-year-old son of the former supreme leader
“Ayatollah Ali hamanayi, who was killed in an Israeli air strike at the start of the war.”
The younger hamanayi is considered a hard-liner who is closely associated with a violent crackdown on protesters during the 2009 so-called green revolution. Hamanei is close with
a powerful Iranian revolutionary guard corps. It has pledged its support for the new supreme
leader. Pro-Rajim State TV showed images of large crowds celebrating the news. Last week President Trump said Hamanei was a lightweight and an unacceptable choice to lead Iran. Israel has vowed to target him. Jackie Northam in PR news. This is the war now in its second week, widens in the Middle East. The U.S. has struck Iran again today. Israel hit an oil storage facility while Iran hit a desalination plant in Bahrain. President Trump is facing a lot of
economic headwinds as the 2026 midterm election year gets underway. crude oil prices are trading
“over $100 a barrel today as the war in Iran impacts oil production and distribution and U.S.”
futures contracts are down sharply. If here is moralized and 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. Mara Lyasin, NPR News.
crude oil prices up 20 points at $109.90 cents. Dow futures are down almost 2 percent. Asian
markets are also trading lower than UK and Japan down 6 percent. You're listening to NPR News. A federal judge in Oregon has dismissed the last of two civil lawsuits against J. H. Baxter, a company that ran out would treatment plant in Eugene. For member station KLCC, Brian Bull has more. Late plaintiff Miles Hart filed suit against his former employer in 2021, alleging the company violated environmental practices leading to complaints about toxic fumes.
But with J. H. Baxter largely in solvent, Hart says there's nothing the game. It would just beat in the dead horse, you know, it just was going nowhere. Company President George A. Baxter crowd served 90 days last year for violating the federal clean air act and the resource conservation and recovery act, then lying about it to regulators. She and the company paid a $1.5 million fine. The other lawsuit ended with four plaintiffs
getting $200,000, the Baxter plant is now a super fun site. For NPR News, I'm Brian Bull, in Eugene. Performed at Woodstock, leading a crowd of some $400,000 through a satirical cheer before singing his satirical anti-war song, I feel like I'm fixing to die. Country Joe and the fish was one of the first bands to rise from the psychedelic rock scene in the Bay Area in California after the
band broke up in 1970. He had a long solo career. His family says he died from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 84 years old. I'm Jeanine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This message comes from wise. The app for international people using money around the globe.
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