Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The war in Iran has continued this weekend with more U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country
“and so far there's no sign of it coming to an end.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke this weekend and said Israel has many more targets and surprises in store. And we saw one of those surprises this weekend.
Israel targeted Iranian oil facilities for the very first time in the war.
Netanyahu asked Iran has named "Motaba Hamanai" as the successor to the country's Supreme Leader, who was killed early in the fighting, he's the former leader's son. As the fighting continues, in Iran, the State Department is telling all family members of government employees at the embassy in Saudi Arabia to leave that country. Non-emergency government employees are also being asked to leave.
A State Department spokesperson says the decision came after a regular security review. The leading investigative group says new video shows a U.S. missile hidden or area around an Iranian school that started the U.S. Israeli war in Iran. Iranian authorities say 175 people were killed and most of them were schoolgirls. As NPR's Janner Afraports, the U.S. is denied hitting the 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 geolocated 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. Ukraine, Iraq and Pyrenees, Sulemania in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Wall Street is on edge as U.S. futures contracts are sharply lower.
Crewed oil has also passed $110 a barrel as the war in Iran continues to affect oil production and shipping in the Persian Gulf. MPR's Maria Aspen reports. U.S. investors and consumers are worried about the surging price of oil after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.
It means that rely on oil, including airlines and cruise ships, have seen their shares tumble amid the wider stock market volatility. Meanwhile, inflation-weary consumers are seeing the price of gasoline spike. And if disruptions to the oil supply go much longer, the higher cost of shipping and trucking will likely raise prices for goods of all kinds.
Investors are also anxious about the underlying strength of the U.S. economy, especially after a surprisingly bad jobs report showed that employers cut 92,000 jobs last month.
“Key inflation data this week will show us how much more prices are increasing.”
Maria Aspen and PR news. And you're listening to NPR news. The federal government released new dietary guidelines in January that turned the food pyramid on its head as NPR's Kaden Mills reports. Those guidelines are also used to set school nutrition standards, which means those standards
may be changing soon as well. The new guidelines encourage Americans to consume more animal products like red meat and full-fat dairy. They also push for fewer processed foods. But many school cafeterias around the country rely on heavily processed heat and serve meals.
Moving away from those foods would likely require schools to do more scratch cooking. Diane Pratt Havner is a spokesperson for the school nutrition association. They simply do not have the money, the staff, the equipment to be able to prepare all of their meals from scratch. She said schools would quote "absolutely need more funding."
“Should the federal government propose stricter school nutrition standards?”
Kaden Mills and PR news. Third tier Port Vale has pulled off a massive FA Cup super-opsets Sunday by beating Premier League's "Sunderland One Nill" and moving into the quarter-finals. A first half header by Ben Wayne sealed the win. Port Vale sits 57 places below "Sunderland", also on Sunday, Southampton, Upset, Fulham,
also "One Nill". Disney and Pixar's latest film Hoppers is off to a strong start at broad in $46 million in North American movie theaters in its debut weekend. Globally its total is reached $88 million.
In its second weekend, the horror movie screen added $17.3 million to its hall, while
the Warner Bros. flick the bride finished in third with $7.3 million in ticket sales. I'm Dale Wilman and PR news.
