"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Rumlin.
A day after the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Iraq renewed the level for security alert for Iraq,
“the Associated Press is reporting Iraqi security officials say a missile hit a helipad inside”
the perimeter of what is one of the U.S. largest diplomatic facilities in the world. Meanwhile, the Pentagon Friday Defense Secretary Pete Hegzett updated reporters on what he said was American and Israeli progress destroying Iran's military. Soon and very soon, all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed. For example, as of two days ago, Iran's entire ballistic missile production capacity.
Every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated destroyed. Friday President Trump said the U.S. military hit targets on Iran's car island, but only military sites at that location were struck, and the site's oil infrastructure was not hit. Since Israel and the U.S. launched the U.S. strike on Iran progress on President Trump's
ceasefire in Gaza has backslid. NPR's Avabatrani reports less humanitarian aid is now entering Gaza.
“Israel has sealed shut all but one of Gaza's crossings.”
That includes closure of the rough off crossing with Egypt that had just opened last month to allow some people to return and some wounded to leave. NPR's reporter in Gaza and Asbabah says people are feeling squeezed. "Prices are high, money is tight, and safety remains fragile.
The sky is never quiet, drones hum constantly, helicopters battle, and since the Iran
USA war began, we have seen the Iranian missiles pass through our atmosphere towards the living." and according to Israel's own count, some 200 trucks a day enter Gaza now through a single crossing. That is a fraction of what the U.S. has needed, and what mediators say was agreed on in the ceasefire.
Ayyabatrani, MPR News, Dubai Russia is welcoming a White House decision to temporarily lift sanctions on some of its oil exports for the next 30 days, the move, which impacts Russian oil shipments already at sea, compsens the Trump administration seeks to ease pressure on global energy markets, NPR's Charles Mayans reports. "Crimmen spokesman Demitri Peskov says U.S. and Russian interests are currently aligned
in stabilizing world energy markets, yet Peskov adds it would take significantly more Russian oil to secure global energy costs over the long term. Meanwhile, the Cremans envoy to the White House, Korea Demitriv, went a step further, writing on social media. Demitriv predicted additional U.S. sanctions relief looked increasingly inevitable.
The basics of the change in U.S. policy say it's provided the Cremment with a windfall for its war in Ukraine, at a moment when Russia's economic prospects looked grim. Charles Mayans and PPR News. The mayor of Amsterdam said there was an attack on a Jewish school in the Netherlands capital on Saturday.
It's NPR. South Korea now says that North Korea fired 10 ballistic missiles towards the sea of Japan, Japan's defense ministry, said the projectiles appeared to have fallen into the water. The launches on North Korea's first-since it fired two ballistic missiles, January 27. It also comes as South Korea's prime minister was in Washington, and President Trump said
he's opening to resuming a dialogue with President Kim Jong-un. Immigration and customs enforcement continues buying warehouses across the country to get new detention centers in place, from Member Station KUER, Macy Lipkin reports on a new ice facility in Salt Lake City.
Ice paid $145 million this week for a warehouse near Salt Lake City International Airport.
The agency confirmed that this is part of its detention expansion. Local Democratic leaders oppose the center, and some communities around the country have successfully blocked the projects. But in 2024, Republican Governor Spencer Cox said he would like the state to have one. Ice says their sights undergo community impact studies to make sure there's no hardship
on local infrastructure. But Salt Lake City Mayor Aaron Mendenhall says a detention center would be, quote, "Holy outside the scope of our available resources and zoning allowances." For NPR news, I'm Macy Lipkin in Ogden, Utah. Hawaii's governor is declared an emergency proclamation as the state is getting pounded
by heavy rains and high winds, which you've cut electric power to about 100,000 people. I'm Dan Roman, NPR News, Washington. It's tax season, and you might be tempted to use a tax hack that you see on social media, but not so fast. You watch it, you're like, "Oh, that seems interesting, right?"
“The first thing you need to do is just kind of slow down, take a breath.”
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