>> Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, Oklahoma Republican Sen...
Wayne Mullin is at his Senate confirmation hearing to be Homeland Security Secretary.
“The DHS has partially shut down over Democratic concerns about federal immigration agents'”
operations. Do you have your Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan pointed to the killing of Minneapolis protest or Alex Prety in January? Mullin, respond to it. >> I don't get to choose the laws that I enforce.
You guys pass the laws. >> I enforce those laws.
>> And the reason we haven't been shooting a protestor who is exercising his First Amendment
speech and carrying a lawfully licensed gun is not a lawful behavior. >> Mullin also says 280,000 DHS employees have gone a month without pay. That includes TSA agents at airport security, one airport in Houston says half of its TSA agents have called out this week. Israel and Iran have traded air strikes today as the war in the Middle East continues
“Iran's President confirms Israel killed Tehran's intelligence minister Esmail Kateev”
overnight. Yesterday, Israel killed another top Iranian leader, the man widely believed to be running Iran, Ali Larrashani. Iran is retaliated, firing at Gulf countries, and it is real, and bears Daniel Esther reports from Tel Aviv.
>> After Israel's killing of top Iranian leader, Ali Larrashani, Iran says it targeted
the Tel Aviv area with multiple warhead missiles, also known as cluster munitions. A man and woman were killed in their apartment in Ramad Ghan, a suburb of Tel Aviv. The Iranian missile attack also caused damage and other parts of Central Israel, including a train station in Tel Aviv. Iran's missile attacks across the region have been the most lethal in Israel, where at least
14 people have been killed since the war started. Israel's military says that struck air defense systems in Tehran and has Bala rocket launchers in Lebanon on Tuesday, and has Bala fired more rockets into northern Israel Tuesday. Daniel Esther and PR news, Tel Aviv.
>> President Trump continues to raise the idea of the U.S. taking over Cuba. And Piers Freiko Ordonius reports Trump says he expects to announce something soon. >> Trump's threats come as the 10-year anniversary of former President Barack Obama's visit to Avanna approaches when he celebrated his own agreement, creating business opportunities with the island nation, Mark Firesstein who served in the Obama White House sees the possibility
of a similar Obama 2.0 deal.
“>> The contours of an agreement, I think, looked a lot like what Obama and the Cubans agreed”
to 10 years ago, which was basically the Cuban Zobanip economy, releasing political prisoners
pledging to ease oppression and in turn, you know, United States lifting sanctions. >> But Trump rescinded that deal, and his team has signaled their looking for leadership changes as well as economic changes, Franco, Ordonius, and PR news. >> They're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump has waived a century-old maritime law in an effort to lower gasoline prices.
The law is called the Jones Act when it's enforced. It requires all goods that are shipped between U.S. ports be transported on U.S. billed and U.S. flagged vessels, but Trump is waived this law. That means foreign vessels can now do this. That could possibly cut fuel costs and speed up deliveries.
Many Americans who use marijuana say they do so for mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression. And PR's Will Stone reports on a major review published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry. >> 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. >> Venezuela defeated the United States last night through to two in the championship game
of the world baseball classic. Venezuela's Eugenio Suarez hit the go ahead double in the ninth inning to clinched the win for Venezuela. I'm Corva Coleman and PR news in Washington.
