"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Iranian State TV has now confirmed the assassinations of two of its highest-level officials
“since Ayatollah Hamani was killed at the start of the war.”
Israel says it launched targeted strikes over night, killing Iran's security and paramilitary chiefs, and Piers Caricon has more." Israel's defense minister May the announcement saying both men were killed overnight and he's instructed the military to continue "hunting the leadership." Israel's military confirmed it had killed Golum Resa Solamani, the leader of the
besieged paramilitary forces, responsible for violently suppressing street protests against Fiorani and government earlier this year, and that an Israeli air strike killed Al-Alan Janine, who it says had been in charge of directing Iran's military effort since Israel killed the Supreme Leader in the beginning of the war.
The UAE Defense Ministry says it has, quote, "engaged 10 ballistic missiles and 45 drones
just in the early Tuesday hours." Caricon and PR News to live. On a frigid day in Chicago, voters are out at the polls after months of a high stakes Illinois primary election season.
“This year's ballots include an open U.S. Senate seat and four Chicago area house seats.”
Esther Yoon-Gi-Kong has a king-rather from member-station WBEZ, spoke with Democratic primary voters this morning. Tiffany Shockley brought her young son with her to vote. Top of mind is one issue. "Prices, and yes, food prices, I have like one income, I have a son, I cannot, I cannot
live like that." Edward Ellis says he's fed up with the tariffs, the wars, and what he calls the dysfunction of both political parties. He almost didn't come today. "But then when you think about what people have been through to vote, I just feel
that is my duty to vote." The Democratic candidates span three generations from Jen X to Jen Z, and the outcome may indicate how far left the party's voters are looking to go.
“For NPR News, I'm Esther Yoon-Gi-Kong in Chicago.”
Acting TOA Administrator, Adam Stahl, says they may have to close some security lands and possibly some smaller airports around the country, if the partial government shut down continues. Some 50,000 TSA officers are working without pay, and Stahl tells Fox News, the call-out rate is growing every day, and when at Wade has been a TSA agent for 18 years and is a union
representative. "It's just unreasonable to expect anybody to continue going to work for such long periods of time without receiving any pay." This is the sale made over funding for the Department of Homeland Security continues over immigration tactics, including the killing of two U.S. citizens protesting in Minnesota
earlier this year. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Many Americans who use marijuana say they do so for mental health conditions, like anxiety and depression. But a major review of the evidence published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry concludes
there is little to no evidence that it actually works, and here's Will Stone has more. This is the largest effort to date to pull together all the data from high-quality trials on cannabis and mental health. The researchers at the University of Sydney concluded there was no indication cannabis is effective for anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other conditions.
It found limited support for a few areas like insomnia, autism, and Tourette syndrome. Ziva Cooper is a cannabis researcher at UCLA who was not involved in the new paper. "I would say that there are significant limitations with these types of studies." "She says yes, there is a need for more well-controlled trials on cannabis, but the new review excluded other evidence that does show certain compounds in the plant can be beneficial
for anxiety and other symptoms." Will Stone and PR News The Post-Bester General says without an influx of cash from Congress, the U.S. Postal Service will run out of money for its workers and vendors in about a year. David Steiner told lawmakers on Capitol Hill today that the Post Office, which doesn't
get taxed dollars to operate, and to fiscal year 2025 with a net loss of $9 billion.
Mail Service continues though because the Post Office borrowed money from the U.S. Treasury while halting payments to some pension obligations over the years. It's the latest in a long-standing money problem at the Post Office. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. Alex Rosenthal has a Fantasia, meaning he can't visualize things like...
"Fraction of a microsecond, and then it's gone. And for some people, it's just total blank slate." That's on the Ted Radio Hour podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
