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Iran now confirms that it's top security official, Ari Largidali, and one or the leader
“were killed during it as where the air strike on Tuesday.”
NPR's Kerry Khan and Tel Aviv reports he was believed to be directing Iran's effort in
the war since Israel assassinated the Iranian Supreme Leader in the first hours of the war.
His name is Ali Lorajani, and he is a long career in the Iranian political upper echelons. He was the speaker of the parliament among other appointments, and was a top adviser to the assassinated Supreme Leader. And after Israel killed the leader, it was widely believed that Larajani was running Iran. He was also involved in talks with the Trump administration before the war.
Iran has been hitting back today, sending missiles and drones to both Israel and the neighboring Gulf states. In a speech today at the United Kingdom's Parliament, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky issued a clear message to President Trump. The U.S. he said needs Ukraine to help fight the war in the Middle East, and P.R.s.
Lorne Freyer reports from London.
“The UK Parliament speaker, Lindsay Hoyl, introduced Zelensky with a phrase that means "glory”
to Ukraine." "Slowly Ukraine, Mr. President, the floor is yours." Zelensky told members of parliament that Russia and Iran are collaborating on drone technology. "The regime's in Russia and Iran are brothers in hatred. And that is why their brothers in weapons."
Zelensky said Ukraine is capable of producing 2,000 interceptor drones per day, and can supply half that amount to its allies. His UK visit comes amid fears that the Iran war is boosting Russia's economy with oil revenue, and diverting global attention and resources away from Ukraine's defense. Lorne Freyer and P.R. News London.
The head of the U.S. Postal Service says that agency is on track to run out of money in less than a year, and may have to stop delivering the mail. As NPR's Hansi Lowang reports, the Postmaster General is asking Congress for help.
“Ten to millions of households and businesses rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail”
packages six days a week to every address in the country, but the federal agency generally receives no tax dollars to keep running, relies instead on stamps and service fees. With fewer people relying on U.S.P.S. then in past decades, Postmaster General David Steiner is telling a house oversight subcommittee that U.S.P.S. is on track to run out of cash to pay its workers and vendors in about a year.
So far, mail deliveries have not stopped because U.S.P.S. has been able to borrow $15 billion
from the U.S. Treasury, and hold off on paying some pension obligations. There is asking Congress to change laws to allow the Postal Service to borrow more money and reform how it pays for retirement benefits for Postal Workers on Zilawang and Pernus. On Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow was up the NASDAQ was down.
The S&P was flat. You're listening to NPR news. The terror threat at Tampa's McDill Air Force Base, the home of U.S. Central Command, was elevated toose denite to what's called Charlie Level, which means the terrorist action targeting personnel or facilities could be likely.
On the basis, fake Facebook page, it said Israel said that its level was raised, so the military could implement deliberate security measures proactively. While historic storms dropped, feet of snow over the upper Midwest, people in the southwest are preparing for record-breaking heat. Daniel Montoio, from a conversation KU and M. reports, the New Mexico Department of Health
is issued a heat illness advisory in response to an unprecedented heat wave. The temperature in Albuquerque is expected to go from 76 degrees on Monday to 91 by Saturday,
almost two months earlier than the typical first 90 degree day.
That's Clay Anderson, a senior forecaster at the National Weather Service. Even though the highs or numbers New Mexicans are used to seeing every summer, Anderson says temperatures that get this high this quickly, especially this early in the year, could catch people off guard before the body has had time to become acclimated to the heat. For NPR News, I'm Daniel Montoio, in Albuquerque.
Flight cancellations and delays are stacking up in security lines at airports you're getting longer. This is TSA agents have not been paid and are working without pay for more than a month because of the partial government shutdown. Within a thousand one hundred flights were canceled on Tuesday, 87 hundred were delayed.
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