>> Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder, the FBI is praising a group of ROTC ...
bringing a classroom shooting at Virginia's old Dominion University to an end at the
FBI Special Agent Dominique Evans.
“>> The brave ROTC members in that room, subdued him, and if not for them, I'm not sure what”
else he may have done, but that's exactly, they confronted him and they subdued him and he was no longer able to conduct any further attack. >> Yeah, the FBI has identified the government as a convicted Islamic state supporter who was once a member of the Virginia Army National Guard. The ROTC students killed him after he fatally shot one person and injured two others.
The FBI says it's also investigating Thursday's attack on a synagogue outside Detroit as a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community, a suspect crashed as truck into the synagogue at burst into flames after security guards fired on at the suspect was killed. Dozens of Senate Democrats are demanding answers about a strike to a girl's school in
Iran that left at least 165 people dead.
MPR's Jeff Brumfield reports that appears at the U.S. was responsible. >> In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth, Democratic Senators demanded answers about the strike.
“They wanted to know how the school came to be targeted, what weapon systems were used, and”
whether artificial intelligence played a role in choosing targets in Iran. The letter comes a day after the news of preliminary assessment by the Pentagon found the U.S. was responsible for hitting the school. Iranian state media has published images showing parts from a U.S. made Tomahawk missile. It says was used in the strike.
Jeff Brumfield and PR news. >> A rescue operation is ongoing and Western Iraq, the U.S. military says a refueling aircraft
went down Thursday, saying an establishment that a second aircraft that was involved was
able to land safely. U.S. Central Command says the incident was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. Trump administration moving to try to ease oil supply concerns, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says the U.S. is lifting sanctions for 30 days on Russian oil and petroleum products stranded at sea.
And MPR's Danielle Kurtzlaven reports a White House is considering waving a century-old shipping law. The operation may wave the Jones Act, part of the Merchett Marine Act of 1920. The Jones Act requires ships moving between U.S. ports to be made and operated by the U.S.
In a statement, press Secretary Caroline Levitt said the administration is considering waving the act, "for a limited period of time to ensure vital energy products and agricultural necessities are flowing freely to U.S. ports." The act has been waived before, after natural disasters and during international conflicts. In 2011, amid conflict in Libya, President Obama waived the Jones Act to allow foreign
ships to transport oil from the U.S. strategic petroleum reserve. "You're listening to NPR news. Your on's new supreme leader is vowing to fight on and to keep the strategic straight of Hormuz shutdown. A message attributed to Mistava Manay was read Thursday by a television presenter as both
sides, straight air strikes as Rayleigh Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israeli attacks are creating conditions for the Iranian people to topple the government. NASA has cleared its Artemis mood rocket for launch early next month. Mismanagers made the call Thursday of Florida's Kennedy Space Center, saying NASA is aiming for a launch attempt as early as April 1st with four astronauts.
The Artemis crew should have blasted off earlier this year, but few leaks and other problems got in the way. To California men banned from all-bass pro-shops in the U.S. while awaiting trial for allegedly breaking a mammoth tusk fossil in Missouri. Naminoji Yadina, a member stationed in K.C. U.R. and Kansas City reports.
Taney County Court has charged Todd Asyvado and Brett Howard with one count of felony property damage each. The men are accused of breaking a $200,000 fossilized mammoth tusk at the top of the rock, a resort in Branson, Missouri. According to court documents Asyvado allegedly asked Howard to get on his shoulders, so Howard
could hang from the task of a woolly mammoth fossil. When Howard allegedly grabbed the tusk, it shattered and fell on the floor. As a condition of their bond release, Asyvado and Howard are banned from all-bass pro-shops in the United States. That's because the shop's owner also started the Missouri lodge where the mammoth may
have it took place. The men face up to four years in prison and a $10,000 fine. For NPR News, I'm Nominoji Yadina in Kansas City. This week on Consider This, warn Ron and a new front in Lebanon.
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