"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
Iran is threatening more strikes than the coming hours on U.S. Affiliated targets in the
“Middle East, and PR's "RZU" Resvani has the latest.”
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says that in the coming hours it will strike industries
across the region that are associated with the U.S. The group is urging workers to evacuate and civilians to avoid areas near production facilities. The message was first reported by Iran's Tasning News Agency, which is associated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Last week, the News Agency published a list of major U.S. companies in a social media post that included Amazon, Microsoft, and Palantir. The Revolutionary Guards thread came soon
after Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Aayahqi, called "on neighboring countries that host U.S. forces to clarify their positions on the war," adding that certain countries are "encouraging this slaughter. Arzur Azvani and PR News Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq." "Brent crude oil is hovering around $100 a barrel as President Trump urges U.S. allies
to help keep oil shipments moving through the straight-of-arm moves. "We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the straight far more than ours."
“However, European allies are reluctant to send warships without an idea of how long”
the conflict might last.
Extreme weather alerts spend the United States from near-record heat in the southwest to
twisters in the east and mid-Atlantic to blizzards in the Midwest. Rick Brewer of Memorization WCMU is in Michigan, where heavy ice and heavy snow have forced snowplows off some roads. "Arias of the Upper Peninsula have gotten up to three feet of snow, and snowfall records may be broken. Some parts of the region remain under a blizzard warning through Tuesday morning.
60 mile per hour winds along the Lake Superior shoreline closed a state highway. Dan Weingarten is with the Michigan Department of Transportation." "So if the plows aren't out and about, it's a good sign that the rest of us should stay home if we possibly can." Around 100,000 people in the northern Lower Peninsula are without power after heavy ice
consumed the area. Northern Michigan is still recovering from a devastating ice storm that hit nearly a year ago. For MPR News, on Rick Brewer." "We'll record setting heat was projected for portions of the Western U.S. and for one
Claire Monk California resident, Andrew Kapoor. The heat might have contributed to a very odd encounter in her kitchen with a bear." "They need interesting, that it wasn't in my kitchen. It was just more interesting than skiddy."
“Kapoor talking about the encounter recently. Now, why is this happening?”
Authorities and Bear Country say the animals are waking up from hibernation and searching for food. President Trump's issuing an executive order formally launching a task force on fraud. It'll be led by Vice President J.D. Vance. U.S. stocks have ended the day higher with the Dow closing up more than 400 points.
You're listening to NPR News." The Trump administration is lashing out at major news outlets over their coverage of the U.S. and Israel War against Iran. Relations chief federal broadcast regulator is even threatening to take away TV licenses over it.
NPR's David Folkham flick reports it's something of an empty threat, but there is a bigger matter of foot. President Trump expressed anger over coverage of the war from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegsev denounced CNN.
None of those outlets have TV licenses, not the newspapers, and not CNN, which is on cable, not broadcast. For that matter, the Federal Communications Commission and its chair, Brendan Carr, only licensed local TV stations, so on paper, that's a whole lot of posturing. But the Journal's owners, the Murdoch's own local Fox stations and the elephants, the likely
future owners of CNN, possess local CBS stations. On Sunday night, Trump egged on car, calling much of the media treasonous, all part of an effort to quail unwelcome questions about the war, from journalists and from their corporate owners. David Folkham flick and PR News.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear consolidated expedited arguments in two separate cases, involving the administration's decision to end a temporary protected status for citizens of Syria and Haiti.
The court said it would hear arguments in the case during the second week of the April
2026 oral argument calendar. Serients have qualified for TPS since 2012 due to the brutal crackdown by former President Bashar al-Assad however in September, the Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Nomanals she would revoke Serients TPS status. This is NPR News.
And the meanings of the narratives that led us here, and maybe had a head them off at the past. That's on the media specialty. I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media, listen wherever you get your podcasts.
