"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronin.
The Lebanese Army says three more soldiers were killed today by Israeli air strikes.
“Lebanon's government says more than 900 people have been killed since the war in Iran”
began. From Beirut, NPR's Hadeel Al-Shashi reports." While the Lebanese Army said two soldiers were killed, the Israeli military said it was aware of reports that Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon were injured, due to an Israeli strike, and it was investigating the case.
The Lebanese Army has withdrawn from some of its positions in the south, as Israeli troops started to ground incursion this week. They called it a "limited and targeted ground operation against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah." Troops are going deeper into parts of southern Lebanon.
Lebanese President Josef Aun has been calling for direct talks with Israel to end the war. And on the international community to bolster the Lebanese Army to help it disarm Hezbollah, Hadeel Al-Shashi and PR News Beirut.
“A state of Iranian news agency confirms his really strikes have killed two of the country's”
top security officials. One was Iran's security chief. NPR's Emily Fang has more. The news agency for Iran's judiciary has now confirmed the death of Al-Ili al-Ajjani. He'd been Iran's security chief and also a nuclear negotiator, who've been trying to negotiate
with the US just weeks before the joint strikes with Israel killed Iran's top leadership. Also killed.
Ghulam Resa Salamani, the commander of a powerful paramilitary group which operates under the
ages of Iran's Supreme Leader. American and European officials say Salamani was responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians during anti-government protests earlier this year. Israel has also said that in the past day it is hit more than 10 outposts run by the same paramilitary group.
Emily Fang and PR News is done.
“Flight cancellations and delays are stacking up and security lines that airports are getting”
longer as TSA agents have been working without pay for more than a month because of the partial government shutdown. Christopher Sinunu is among those demanding that TSA agents get paid. He's the former Republican governor of New Hampshire now president and CEO of the airline group Airlines for America.
Sunday he sent an open letter to Congress along with nine airline and shipping leaders asking leaders to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The system's gotten crisis. Well, that's the good news that it is being mitigated but boy, it is a complete unnecessary hassle for the American public and completely unfair and completely unnecessary to not pay
your own employees on behalf of the federal government. The flight tracking service flight aware said Tuesday that more than 1,100 flights were canceled and another 7,300 were delayed mostly because of weather related issues. From Washington, you're listening to NPR News. The terror threat level at Tampa's McDill Air Force base, the home of the U.S. Central
Command, was elevated Tuesday night to what's called Charley level, which means a terrorist action targeting personnel or facilities could be likely. Charley is the second highest to five levels of terrorism threats. Progress is slowed when it comes to reducing child mortality and that's before taking into account all of the foreign aid cuts over the past year. NPR's Gabrielle Emmanuel reports on the latest
United Nations Global Data.
In 2024, 4.9 million children under five died, almost half of those deaths occurred in the first
month of life, and Sub-Saharan Africa had the highest under five mortality rates. These numbers have dropped by more than 50% since 2000. But the rate of decline from 2016 to 2024 has significantly reduced. Kate Strong is with the World Health Organization. We know how to prevent, we know how to treat these conditions that are causing death.
But that's not the problem. The problem she says is that local health systems need bolstering and financing for global health initiatives needs to be increased. Gabrielle Emmanuel and PR News. The Women's National Basketball Association and its Players Association
have reached a verbal agreement on a new tentative collective bargaining agreement. The agreement is expected to reflect the skyrocketing growth of the league. I'm Dan Roman and PR News in Washington, support for it. Alex Rosenthal has a fanteja 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.
