"Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
More than two weeks into the U.S.
Israel wore against Iran, Iran reports at least 1,300 deaths, Lebanon where Iran backed his boulevarders are engaged in conflict with Israel, says that at least 880 people have been killed on its soil, Israel is reporting 12 deaths, and the United States has at least 13 American service members have been killed, including six in a plane crash in Iraq last week.
President Trump is pressuring other nations to send warships to help keep open the
“straight-of-war moves, a crucial oil-shipping route from the Persian Gulf to the rest”
of the world. The level of enthusiasm and matters to me. We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers, great soldiers, protecting them
from harm's way, and we have done a great job, and when we want to know, do you have any
mineswippers? Well, it would rather not get involved, sir. I said, for you mean, for 40 years, we're protecting you, and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor." Trump declined to name the country's skeptical of committing warships.
The United Kingdom's Prime Minister rebuffed Trump's demands on sending warships. We have more on that from NPR's "Lorn for Air." U.K. Prime Minister Kier Stommer says he's working with allies on a plan to reopen the straight-of-war moves. He told reporters, "It will not be a NATO mission," and says the U.K.
“"You'll not be drawn into the wide-of-war."”
Stommer has given the U.S. only limited access to British military bases for what he calls defensive operations only. Trump has reacted with personal insults against Stommer. "But at every stage, I've stood by my principles." Most Britain's oppose the war and Stommer, a human rights lawyer, by training, said
his relations with Trump are still good. He told reporters the U.K. is evacuating Britain's from the Gulf, supporting them in Lebanon, and introducing price caps for heating bills inside the U.K. "Lorn for Air and Piano's London." White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer
according to an announcement from President Trump today. And Piano's deep-ish Iran reports Trump's as well as intense a stay on in her role while undergoing treatment.
“Trump posted the news on social media and called Wiles' prognosis "excellent," and said”
she'll be spending, quote, virtually full time at the White House during her treatment. At an event with the board of the Kennedy Center, Trump said Wiles already started her treatment and called her a fighter. "She's going to take care of it immediately, as opposed to waiting." He said, "Let's do it now."
I said, "Do it immediately," because that particular element, the faster the better. Wiles has been serving as Chief of Staff since the beginning of Trump's second term and she's the first woman to hold the position. Great-ish Iran and Piano's the White House. The Dow is up 359 points, you're listening to and Piano's.
A line of powerful storms is moving across the eastern half of the U.S., a major snowstorm
hit the upper Midwest over the weekend, string of thunderstorms threaten a broad swath of the East Coast today, potentially spawning tornadoes, and Piano's Rebecca Hirsch reports to severe weather's drawing attention to the federal government's hobbled emergency agency. The federal emergency management agency is supposed to help respond to weather disasters, including assisting with search and rescue operations and debris removal.
But the agency is struggling to get disaster assistance money out the door, with millions of dollars in promised disaster funding delayed. That includes large grants that local governments rely on to pay emergency officials and local first responders. FEMA has lost thousands of workers since the Trump administration began, including nearly
five hundred in January alone. FEMA did not respond to questions about its readiness to respond to the latest storms. Rebecca Hirsch and Piano's. Two members of the Iranian women soccer team are staying behind in Australia where a top government official says, "They've been relocated to an undisclosed safe location, five
other players, and a support staff member had dropped their bid for asylum, as of Monday night, were flying to Oman and possibly back to Iran. Concerns have been raised about the women's safety back in Iran." U.S. stocks are trading higher this hour with the Dow Jones industrial average up 353 points or roughly three quarters of a percent.
The S&P 500 and the NASDAQ are both up more than one percent. I'm Lakshmi Singh, and PR News.
