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Federal prosecutors say two Pennsylvania men are now charged with trying to provide material

support to Islamic State when they lobbed explosive devices during a protest outside the

New York City Mayor's residence Saturday. At the time, a far-right influencer was leading a protest which drew a larger counter-protest. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisha dressed the public during a news conference a short time ago about the suspects, 18-year-old and Mayor Bollot, and 19-year-old Abraham Kiyumi. After being advised at his Miranda Rights and waving those rights, Kiyumi said in recorded

poster-rest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on his phone and that his actions that day were partly inspired by ISIS. The police commissioner said the two explosive devices hurled near-gracing mansion over the weekend did not detonate. The army has released the name of the 7th U.S. soldier killed in the war against Iran, and

8th soldier has also died from non-combat-related causes, and Piers Quill Lawrence has an update.

The army says 26-year-old Sergeant Benjamin and Pennington died over the weekend of wounds

sustained on the first day of the U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran.

Pennington was deployed with the first space brigade to print Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia, and the base came under Iranian drone attack on March 1. Pennington was from Glendale, Kentucky, and joined the army in 2017. The army said he'll be posthumously promoted to staff sergeant. The bodies of six Americans killed an action where flown home over the weekend and received

in a ceremony attended by President Trump. The New York Army National Guard has identified a soldier who died of non-combat-related causes in Kuwait on March 6th, major sorefully-davius of Queen's New York was 46 years old. As the U.S. is a war against Iran, escalates in its second week the price of oil continued to climb, Brent Crew, the global oil benchmarked surge past $100 a barrel yesterday for

the first time in four years. Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is suing the Trump administration for designating the company a supply chain risk, and Piers Bobby Allen reports Anthropic says the government is illegally retaliating against the company. Anthropic filed two lawsuits alleging that Trump officials broke the law by placing the company

on a contractor blacklist.

The company says it came after Anthropic said its powerful AI programs could not be used

in lethal autonomous weapons, nor to spy on American citizens. After that, the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, a label typically used against foreign adversaries like China. The suits say Trump officials violated the company's free speech and exceeded the laws authority on supply chain rules.

The Pentagon would not comment on the suit. As Anthropic said, he will order all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's AI tool, Claude, Bobby Allen, and PR news. This is NPR. Arizona's state Senate president says he has complied with the subpoena he received last

week, seeking records from a flawed review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. Republican Warren Peterson wrote on X, the FBI has the records. NPR has reached out to the FBI seeking comment. Both the Maricopa County recorders office and Board of Supervisors told conversation KJZZ. They had not received subpoenas.

The widely discredited GOP led review, which was launched by the previous state Senate

president and followed baseless fraud claims in the crucial swing county, confirmed President

Trump's 2020 election loss there. People who take hormone therapy to treat symptoms of menopause are experiencing delays when they go to pick up their prescriptions. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports some manufacturers of estrogen patches acknowledge shortages. After the FDA removed warning labels from estrogen, more women are asking about hormone

therapy. Dr. Nora Lance and the chief medical officer of Elector Health says menopause hormone therapy has grown steadily over the last several years, and many women now use estrogen patches, which deliver the hormone through the skin, instead of taking oral estrogen pills.

This transdermal version of estrogen dial is a really much safer option, and that's why

there's been such demand. CVS says manufacturers have been unable to provide sufficient supplies of estrogen patches, and some manufacturer is acknowledged shortages, but do not provide a reason. Allison Aubrey and PR news. The Dow Jones industrial average is down 330 points, it's NPR news.

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