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President Trump says the U.S. has bombed military targets in an island off the coast of Iran. NPRs are zoo-reads-vani reports Trump is also warning that oil facilities there could be next.
"Hark Island sits 15 miles off Iran's coast and is critical to Iran's oil infrastructure
and the country's economy, roughly 90 percent of Iran's export crude oil passes through the island. In a truth-social post on Friday, President Trump said that while the U.S. had hit military targets, he had "chosen not to wipe out the oil infrastructure." Trump added that he'd reconsider that decision if Iran continues interfering with ships
passing through the state of Hormuz. In response, Iran's military has threatened to turn oil and energy firms in the region that work with the U.S. into, quote, "a pile of ashes." Oil prices have jumped more than 40 percent since the start of the war.
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The investigation continues into an attack on a synagogue in Michigan this week.
Federal authorities say the suspect died by suicide after ramming a truck into temple
Israel in West Bloomfield on Thursday. Jennifer Runyon is special agent and charge of the FBI's Detroit field office. She says the suspect has been identified as a U.S. citizen from Lebanon. The FBI has forensically confirmed that the "assailant responsible for carrying out this attack" was Ayman Mohamed Ghazali, aged 41, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan.
He has no previous criminal history and no registered weapons. The officials say the suspect had recently lost family members in Lebanon. They were killed after Israel carried out a drone strike on a Hezbollah rocket unit. The FBI says the attack on the synagogue was a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.
An emergency declaration has been issued for the entire state of Hawaii.
Forcaster say a powerful storm is moving across the islands, bringing high winds and
torrential rain.
“Bill Dorman from Hawaii Public Radio reports more than 100,000 people are without power this”
morning. Electricity has been knocked down to customers across Hawaii, mainly on the state's most popular island of Oahu, parts of the islands nor a shore were evacuated due to flash flooding. Hawaii's governor Josh Drain says parts of the state could get as much as a foot and
a half of rain before the storms end. His main concern, the Wahua dam in central Oahu, and its neighboring communities. The Honolulu Department of Emergency Management says a failure of the dam could cause what it calls catastrophic flooding. The National Weather Services, the storm system could also lead to 12 to 18 inches of snow
on the Hawaii Island summits of Monikaia and Monalua. For NPR News, I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. This is NPR News in Washington. Stokes on Wall Street fell this week as the war in Iran continues to rattle energy markets across the globe, and PR Scott Horsley reports investors also received new readings on inflation.
Brutal traffic in the straight-of-four moves remains at a near-stand still two weeks after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. That's pushed oil prices to around $100 a barrel, retail gasoline prices have also jumped sharply. If pump prices remain high, shoppers may have to cut back elsewhere.
The wartime spike in energy prices was not reflected in February's cost to living index, which came out on Wednesday. It showed prices up by a relatively modest 2.4% over the last year, given the jump in gas prices however, the March inflation rate is likely to look worse. For the week, the NASDAQ lost one and a quarter percent, the S&P 500 index fell 1.6% and
the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2%. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. The head of the Kennedy Center has announced his resignation, Richard Grenell, stepped down from his leadership role on Friday, and opposed on social media, Trump said his departure comes as, and will be replaced by Matt Floka as the center's vice president of facilities
operations. His departure comes as President Trump moves ahead with plans to reshape the institution, including installing a new board and naming himself Chairman. The changes have prompted criticism from some artists and led several performers to cancel appearances at the venue.
The building is set to close for two years, beginning in July, to undergo renovations ordered by the Trump administration. I'm Mr. Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from 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.
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