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As the U.S. is real war against Iran, rages, more American troops have died.
“U.S. central command says six troops died when their military refueling plane crashed”
in western Iraq. General Dan Cain, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this morning it happened in friendly airspace, but was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
U.S. on com says a second plane involved in the encounter landed safely.
The latest fatalities bring to at least 11 the number of U.S. troops killed since the start of the war two weeks ago. NPR has confirmed that a Japan-based Marine unit is heading to the Middle East. A source not authorizes to be publicly says about 2,200 service members from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Okinawa, aboard the U.S. as Tripoli, will join in our
modda of ships taking part in the Iran war. No word on what role the Marines will play. The deployment was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. NPR's learned that the man who attacked a synagogue outside Detroit yesterday was a naturalized
“U.S. citizen who lost two brothers as well as the young niece and nephew in and is really”
strike in Moshgarra Lebanon last week according to the town's mayor. In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer addressed the public as the FBI investigates the synagogue attack as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community. We will call it out. We must lower the rhetoric in the state and in this country, especially at this moment
or we have seen such a rise in anti-Semitism and more attacks on the Jewish community. Authorities say the assailant identified as 41-year-old Aiman Muhammad Ghazali was killed by Temple Israel's security after he drove into the synagogue in West Plumfield Township and the vehicle caught fire. Cuba says it is in the middle of negotiations with United States and Piers' Aida
Peralta reports this comes in mid-A US blockade of oil.
During an address on state television, Cuban President Miguel Diascalnele admitted for the first
time that the Cuban government was in direct negotiations with the US government. Diascalnele said the talks were at the initial stages. He said Cuba was taking a peaceful approach toward finding solutions of, quote, "I lateral differences." He did not give any details on the substance of the negotiations.
Cuba hasn't received any oil for three months now. It means the island has experienced rolling blackouts, leaving hospitals and other public institutions on the brink of collapse. President Trump has said he expects the Cuban government to collapse or negotiate a transition like the one in Venezuela.
U.S. stocks are trading lower this hour. The Dow is down 10 points. The S&P has fallen 23 points and the Nasdaq is down 171 points. From Washington, this is NPR News. Researchers in California say an outbreak of the bird flu affecting elephant seals in the
state has now spread to other marine mammals. The bird flu was first detected in elephant seals on California's coast in late February. The flu known as H5N1 has decimated some elephant seal populations in the southern hemisphere. But so far, wildlife officials say the new outbreak in California seems limited in scale, with all of the known infections occurring at or near a state park north of Santa Cruz.
To be safe, though, they're conducting tests along other parts of the coast and our urging people and pets to stay away from any wildlife carcasses they might find on the state's beaches. Nate Rodt and PR News. A news study from Rutgers and Northwestern universities finds cleaning staff and higher
care givers in California are on average collectively underpaid, worth $280 million a
year. KQED's Frieda Javala Romero reports. The researchers analyzed 10 years worth of federal government survey data and found that 67,000 domestic workers in California or one in five were paid less than the required state minimum wage.
Jake Barnes is a co-author of the report. A lot of ways California is really leader when it comes to securing rights for domestic work and domestic workers. But it's a whole nother ball game to make sure that those rights are actually being abided by.
The domestic workers' rate of underpayment is much higher than for other California workers. Barnes hopes the findings encourage state leaders to strengthen enforcement of minimum wage and other labor laws. That's for Rida Javala Romero reporting. It's NPR News.
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