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NPR has confirmed video that shows what appears to be a U.S. missile slamming into a compound
“in Iran, where a girl's school was struck killing over 100 people.”
NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports President Trump is blaming the Iranians. The seven-second video was posted by Mohr News, a semi-efficient Iranian news agency. It shows what experts told NPR's likely a U.S. tomahawk cruise missiles that slams into
an Iranian Revolutionary Guard compound, a school that was one part of that compound was
also struck, killing around 175 students and staff. Speaking on Air Force One Saturday, President Trump said he believed Iran was behind the school blast. "They're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever, who's done by Iran."
NPR analysis suggests a highly accurate strike hit seven buildings on the compound, including the school. The Pentagon says the investigation continues. Jeff Brumfield and PR News
“The U.S. Army confirms the seventh U.S. service member killed in action in the Middle”
East is 26-year-old Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington. In a statement today, the Defense Department says Pennington died yesterday from wounds
he sustained during an Iranian attack on a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia on the first day
of the U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran. The Army says the Kentucky native was assigned to the first space brigade. He will be posthumously promoted to staff sergeant. There remains of six Americans killed in the Middle East, where flown home over the weekend. The war in Iran's created a major bottleneck in the straight of Hormuz and PR's Jackie
Northam has more. There are roughly 120 cargo ships in limbo at ports in the Gulf region, and not surprisingly shipping companies are not accepting new bookings because, you know, we've got all this fresh food and the other things, sitting there and they have no idea that companies how long the conflict's going to last.
NPR's Jackie Northam reporting.
“U.S. air travelers could see long, wait times at security checkpoints this week.”
NPR's Joel Rose reports passengers waited for hours at several major airports over the weekend. Security lines snaked out of the terminal and into the parking garage. Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans. At Houston's hobby airport passengers waited three hours or more at security checkpoints on Sunday, Austin Quayar was trying to get home to Chicago.
We were going to try to look at getting earlier flights, but we came and get up to ask him at this point. The Department of Homeland Security blamed the long lines on the partial government shutdown. Workers at the TSA, the transportation security administration have been working without pay for more than three weeks.
Later lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on changes to how immigration officers operate. Joel Rose and PR news, Washington. The Dow Jones industrial averages down 341 points are roughly three quarters of a percent. It's NPR news.
The day after topping $100 a barrel for the first time in four years, Brent Crewd's hovering a row, $93 a shower. Meanwhile, AAA says an actual average for regular gas has jumped again and is now three 48 a gallon. The Department of Justice says it has reached a settlement with ticket master and parent
company live nation entertainment to settle in anti-trust lawsuit. Under the agreement, live nation sells 13 amphitheaters and allows rivals to play a role in ticket sales. However, more than 2 dozen states are offering to continue with a trial in New York Federal Court.
Pixar's animated film "Hoppers" is at the top of the box office, charts and PR's Bob Mondello. The computer-animated beavers in Pixar's latest family comedy have opened the flood gates when it comes to ticket sales.
"Hoppers" is expected to take in $46 million by the end of the weekend.
That beats the opening of every original animated film since Cocoal almost a decade ago, though a couple of animated sequels have done better. Credit a story that's easy to understand. You created a fake animal, which makes the other animals think you're an animal. It also continues a hot streak for Hollywood generally, with each week putting a little more
distance between this year's totals and the lackluster early ticket sales in 2025, 26 is now up almost 10%. Bob Mondello and PR news. The Dow is down 334 points, says some piece off 20, and the NASDAQ is up 14 points. This is NPR News.
