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President Trump's taken to social media to express joy at killing Iranian leaders and
“seem to say the conflict in Iran could go on significantly longer.”
NPR's Daniel Kurtz-Labin reports Trump also previewed what is said to be a day of heavy strikes. Trump said the U.S. has, quote, "Unlimited ammunition and plenty of time." Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today, unquote. This morning defense secretary Pete Higgs-Eth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Cain said today will be the heaviest day of strikes on Iran.
President Trump added, quote, "They've been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th president of the United States of America, am killing them." What a great honor it is to do so, unquote. This week, a preliminary assessment found that the U.S. was likely at fault for a
missile strike on an Iranian girl's school. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR News. In addition, six American troops were killed this week when a re-fueling aircraft crashed. The FBI's investigating yesterday's synagogue attack outside Detroit, Michigan, as a targeted
“act of violence against the Jewish community.”
It was carried out by naturalized citizen from Lebanon, where a local mayor told an NPR producer that the suspect was related to several people killed in and is really strike last week. The Michigan attack occurred with an hours of a deadly shooting on the Virginia campus of Old Dominique University.
Julia Kayem is the faculty chair of the Homeland Security Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and spoke to NPR about the two attacks. The evidence right now shows that they are likely unconnected, and the FBI has not said that they're treating them as similar, obviously, to terror-related events will be careful about motivation at this stage occurred on the same day, and so they will look at any
connection. But the modes of attack are different, the histories of the attackers are different. Julia Kayem on NPR's morning edition. Austin, Texas has announced new policies for how local police interact with federal immigration agents.
Most Michelle of my dissertation KUT reports a guidelines highlight the difficulties blue cities in red states are having and responding to the illegal immigration crackdown. Austin political leaders don't want city police doing immigration enforcement, but Texas law stops them from telling officers they can't report people to ICE. So the new rules here prohibit city police officers from holding someone solely on suspicion
of immigration violations, and tell them they must alert their higher ups if they planned to report someone. Kristen Eder is with the Texas Immigration Law Council. She says in Texas, "It's safe to assume that anytime law enforcement is involved, there is a risk of immigration detention."
Texas is one of many states with laws encouraging or even mandating cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration agents. For MPR News, I'm Mosbushal in Austin. It's NPR. New federal drought data show, much of the Western U.S. is experiencing its lowest snowpack
in history. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports this comes as record heat is expected to bear down on the region next week. March is typically the snowiest month of the year in Colorado, but this year the state is reporting its lowest snow totals on record.
The cascades in Oregon and Washington are in a similar dire state. According to new data from NOAA's drought monitor, in California, warm temperatures have already caused rapid snow melt and an early spring runoff.
Every single river basin in the West has experienced its warmest or second warmest winter
on record. Snow is the West's primary water storage and tens of millions of people rely on it for drinking water, food, and power. The federal Bureau of Reclamation now predicts the water level in Lake Powell may drop so low that the Glen Canyon dam will cease producing power by December.
Kirk Sigler in PR News, Boseman, Montana. High-level U.S. China talks on trade or set this weekend ahead of President Trump's travel to Beijing March 31st. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson and his Chinese counterpart are due to meet in Paris to lay the groundwork for Trump State visit.
Trump and China's Xi Jinping represent the world's two biggest economies. The countries have long had competing, economic, and security interests as they each attempt
to expand their respective footprints and matters of critical minerals, technology, and military
influence around the globe. U.S. stocks trading lower with the Dow down 37 points, its NPR News. On NPR's wildcard podcast, comedian Chris Fleming, on his obsession with public radio's
“own Terry Gross, I think there are very few mystical beings left in this world,”
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