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President Trump is threatening additional strikes on a key Iranian oil export hub, while
“urging U.S. allies to send their ships to secure the state of Hormuz.”
And here's Lauren Fraer reports Britain's Prime Minister spoke by phone to Trump today about the state. President Trump has already expressed anger at the UK for granting the U.S. only limited access to British military bases during this war. And only after Iran retaliated against British allies in the Gulf, did UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer allow the U.S. to use
British bases, but for defensive operations only. Now, Trump is demanding the UK and for other countries. China, Japan, South Korea, and France, send warships to the state of Hormuz. In response to the UK Ministry of Defense, as the British government is, quote, "discussing with our allies and partners a range of options to ensure the security of shipping in
the region, Lauren Fraer and PR News London." The Pentagon has identified the six American service members who died last week when their refueling plane crashed in Iraq, and here's Joe Hernandez has more.
“Three airmen who died were part of the 99th air refueling squadron at McDill Air Force”
Base in Tampa, 33-year-old John Clinter, 31-year-old Ariana Savino, and 34-year-old Ashley Pruitt. The three others who had been assigned to the Rick and Backer Air National Guard Base in Columbus, Ohio were 38-year-old Seth Kovall, 30-year-old Curtis Angst, and 28-year-old Tyler Simmons.
The Defense Department says it was neither hostile nor friendly fire, and that the incident is under investigation in Iranian proxy group has claimed responsibility. Of the 13 U.S. service members who've died during the war with Iran, seven have been killed by enemy fire. Eight others have been severely injured, Joe Hernandez and PR News.
Just a few weeks from a funding cliff, thousands of reproductive health clinics will get federal funding, after all. If you're a Selena Simmons stuff, it has more. Jesse Hitchens runs a clinic that receives Title X funding in rural Nebraska. Those funds allow them to provide free birth control, plus sexually transmitted infection
treatment and testing to people who are uninsured. The next year of funding starts April 1st, but grantees just got the applications they need, months later than usual. Now Hitchens says grantees will have to scramble to avoid a funding gap. This has bite-partisan support.
It has been approved in the budget for year five by both the House and the Senate. It just needs to be sent out to the recipients. The Department of Health and Human Services referred NPR to the Office of Management and Budget, which did not answer questions about the funding delay. Selena Simmons stuff in NPR News, Washington.
US Futures Contracts are trading higher at this hour, they're listening to NPR News. A study from Rutgers and Northwestern universities finds cleaning staff and hired caregivers
are on average, collectively underpaid, more than $280 million a year.
Farida Javfala Romero from Member Session KQED has more. 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.
In 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. 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. For NPR News, I'm Fadida Javfala Romero. At the weekend box office, Pixar's animated hoppers held onto the top spot with an estimated
$28 million in ticket sales in its second weekend.
The film is about a young woman who transforms into the body of a beaver to help defend a pond from development. In second place, Universal's reminders of him debuted with an estimated $18 million, the film which cost a reported $25 million to produce is about a woman attempting to rebuild her life after prison.
It's a third calling Hoover adaptation to reach the big screen following 2024's "It ends with us." This is NPR News.
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