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The Pentagon has confirmed that 140 troops have sustained wounds during the war with Iran,
“and Piers Quilorn supports the vast majority-were minor injuries.”
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell released a statement that, since the start of the bombardment by the U.S. and Israel on March 1, Iranian missiles and drones mostly aimed at U.S. bases in neighboring countries, have wounded approximately 140 U.S. troops. On 100-eight of those cases were minor enough that service members have already been able to return to duty.
Parnell said eight troops were severely injured and a receiving medical care. More than 12-hundred Iranians have died in the war, according to Iranian health officials, and it's unclear how many of those were civilians.
The Pentagon is investigating whether it was an American Tomahawk missile that killed about
175 people at an Iranian girl's school. Other than American troops have died so far from combat injuries, Quilorn sent PR news. President Trump insists that Democrats can only win elections if they cheat, but even some Republicans largely disagree, and Piers a frank length that reports. Patrick Basim is running for the York County Republican Committee, not particularly concerned
about voter fraud, the midterms. We don't expect them to cheat. Why not?
“I think there's been enough people that have seen what has happened over the last decade”
to make sure that it doesn't happen.
Basim is referring to the President's false claim that Democratic voter fraud robbed him of the 2020 election. The President's claims of voter fraud may no longer have as much influence as in the past. A recent survey by the University of California at San Diego found that most Republicans relied on sources other than Trump to determine whether elections are clean.
Frank Lankford N. Pure News, Harrisburg. Department of Justice files show that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein forged close ties with prominent scientists, and later used those connections to try to repair a public image tarnished by his conviction for sex crimes, and Piers Scott Newman reports. NPR spoke with three physicists to attend at a 2006 Epstein-funded conference, organized
by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. The gathering in the U.S. Virgin Islands drew three Nobel Prize winners as well as Stephen Hawking. The interviews and DOJ files NPR examined about the conference help paint a picture of Epstein as someone who was genuinely interested in science, but also in the reflected
“glow he enjoyed by rubbing shoulders with important scientists.”
Years later, Epstein would also use those connections to try to launder his public image, going so far as to list the 2006 conference as one of his top-fi accomplishments. Scott Newman, NPR News. Sales of previously occupied homes rose last month as home shoppers benefited from easing mortgage rates and a slight increase in properties on the market heading into the spring home buying season. The National Association of Realtors says existing
home sales increased 1.7% from January to February. It's NPR. Russia and Ukraine are making competing claims about who's gaining ground as Russian strikes keep hitting Ukrainian cities and peace talks were proved post-powned. A Ukrainian general says "Keep one pack parts of a southeastern region," Russia's leader says his army expanded gains in the Donbass. There was no independent verification of either sides claims.
A team from Johns Hopkins University shows the active ingredient in magic mushrooms still a siren could help smokers quit, and PPR's will stone has more. The study enrolled just over 80 current smokers who were randomly separated into two groups, one used a nicotine patch. The other ingested a relatively high dose of pure psilocybin, just one time. At the six month mark, the psilocybin group had more than six times greater
odds of being abstinent from cigarettes than their counterparts who had nicotine. Matthew Johnson at Johns Hopkins led the study. "I was surprised by the sheer magnitude of the effect. Everyone in the trial also underwent 13 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy. Recent interest in psychedelics has mostly focused on depression and other mental health conditions. psilocybin could be considered for drug
approval in the next few years. Will stone and PPR is?" A former deep sea treasure hunter who spent more than a decade in prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins is now free. Tommy Thompson made one of the great finds in American history in 1988 when he found what was known as the ship of gold off the coast of South Carolina. The record sat at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean for more
than 150 years, a dispute over 500 missing gold coins from the ship landed Thompson in prison. This is NPR News from Washington.
