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Israel's military says it's struck a large square in Iran's capital as thousands gathered
“for an annual rally in support of Palestinians, and here's Kerry Con reports."”
Israel's military says it sent out a warning to Iranians to avoid the area where it said it was destroying military infrastructure. The warning went out on the Israeli military's farcee social media accounts. It's unlikely many saw the notice as the internet is difficult to access in Iran and often blocked by the government.
Captured live on Iranian State TV, the blast occurred close to the huge pro-government rally as a reporter was interviewing a top Iranian official.
Immediately after the blast, the official raised his fist to finally vowing never to surrender.
Videos captured. The crowd burning U.S. and Israeli flags. Israel says its Air Force hit more than 200 Iranian targets in the last 24 hours. Kerry Con and PR News, Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, President Trump says the U.S. military "totally obliterated every military target
in Iran's crown jewel, Harg Island, and that he didn't wipe out the oil infrastructure
“there but that he would, if anyone interferes with ships in the state of Hormuz.”
And PR has learned around 2,200 Marines are heading to the Middle East to bore the U.S. Tripoli joining an amada of ships taking part in Iran's war. A federal judge is put the brakes on a criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve and PR Scott Horsley reports.
The Justice Department subpoena the Federal Reserve back in January,
not ostensibly to learn more about cost overruns on the Central Bank's headquarters renovation. But federal judge James Bozberg says that's a mere pretext. In a newly unsealed opinion, Bozberg says the Justice Department offered no evidence that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell had committed a crime other than displeasing the president by not moving more aggressively to lower interest rates.
At the same time, the judge says there's a abundant evidence that the purpose of the criminal probe was to harass and pressure the Fed Chairman. The cases become a test of the Fed's ability to set interest rates without political interference from the White House.
“Republic and Senator Tom Tillis, who's defended the Fed, says the ruling confirms how”
weak and frivolous the government's investigation was.
Scott Horsley, in PR News, Washington.
The Senate advanced a sweeping housing bill and appears Jennifer Ludden has more. Battery-built homes have long been zoned out of cities and suburbs, but more places are relaxing those restrictions to use them for badly-needed affordable housing. In Petersburg, Virginia, City Councilman Howard Myers says dozens of such homes are filling vacant lots in an area hit hard by job loss.
This neighborhood has transformed. Manufactured housing is faster than building on site and nearly half the cost per square foot. That makes a difference for residents like Kinesha, Missouri. Save and definitely save and it makes my life a little easier. The housing-building Congress would allow manufactured homes in more places and make it cheaper to build
them, Jennifer Ludden and Pierre News. Wall Street, lower by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump says Matt Flaka will be the new CEO and executive director of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He's been serving as VP of operations and he will replace current president Richard Grenell.
Trump also appointed. Last month, Trump announced he would close the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations calling the building to "lapidated." Though the scope of the renovations hasn't been released. Evidence of free industrial pollution has been found in the ice that caps a mountain in the
Alps. As impairs no green filled voice reports, the historical record is disappearing as the ice melts. This particular glacier lies near the border between Italy and Austria. Researchers drilled down through more than nine meters of it, then analyzed this ice-coars layers, which hold chemical clues about past events. Azura Spagnazi is a climatologist at Kafosgari University of Venice.
She says this ice record spans 6,000 years. Layers from medieval times had spikes of lead, copper, and silver, likely from air pollution created by increased mining of metals. Ice layers from other periods showed pollution from massive fires, maybe due to lands being cleared for farming.
A report on the findings appears in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, Nell Greenfield Boys and PR News. Wall Street lower by the close, the Dowdown 119 points the NASDAQ down 206 has to be 500 down 40. You're listening to NPR News. This is Azura Glass of the American Life.
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