"Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
troops anywhere, but seemed to leave the door open to using ground troops in Iran. Or, if necessary, your MPR's mirrored lies in reporting." President Trump said that the U.S. will do whatever is necessary in the war and Iran, but he told reporters that if he was going to commit ground troops, quote, "I certainly wouldn't tell you."
All show committing ground troops would be extremely unpopular on top of a war that most Americans already oppose.
The President also addressed reports of a potential $200 billion funding request for the
war in Iran, Trump called that a small price to pay. But Congress has not voted to approve the war and many Republicans could find it hard to justify spending the equivalent of a quarter of the Pentagon's annual budget at a time when gas and other prices are rising because of the war. Our Eliason and PR News, the White House is a really prime minister of Benjamin Netanyows,
“as Israel will hold off on more strikes on a key Iranian natural gas field, speaking”
to reporters in Jerusalem Netanyows confirmed that President Trump made the request and that Israel acted alone in attacking Iran's South Park gas field. The Senate wants to have closer to confirming President Trump's choice to run the homeland security department, Oklahoma Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullett, here's
him appears a little more.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee has voted to advance Mullins nomination with eight lawmakers voting for and seven against Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote yes. And the only Republican on the panel to vote no, committee chairman, Rand Paul of Kentucky. During Mullins' committee hearing on Wednesday, Paul questioned whether he was the right
person to lead DHS, zeroing in on Mullins' temperament and frequent use of violent rhetoric. Mullins walked some of that rhetoric back and distanced himself from the administration
“on some hard-line immigration enforcement policies.”
Mullins' nomination now proceeds to the Senate floor for vote, but it's unclear when that will happen. Elena Moore and PR News. The Trump administration announced today that it will move significant management of the nation's federal student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, continuing President
and Trump's efforts to eventually shutter the education department in PR's Sequoia Carillo reports. In the administration's latest move to shift responsibilities away from the Department of Education, management of much of the country's student loan portfolio worth nearly $1.7 trillion will be phased over to the Treasury Department.
The administration says Treasury is better equipped to manage the program. Loans in default will move over first followed by loans that are in good standing.
“And in the final phase, Treasury will take over the free application for federal student”
aid or FAFSA.
More than 40 million borrowers hold federal student loans while about 12 million of them
are either in default or on their way there. Sequoia Carillo and Karen is. This is in PR. California Governor Gavin Newsom is supporting your proposal to rename Caesar Chavez Day. Newsom said Thursday that he will move quickly on legislation state lawmakers are considering
they would rename March 31st as farm workers day leaders in other states and cities are considering similar moves following abuse allegations against the late Labor leader. LeBron James has added another MBA record to his name, James Tide, the career mark for games played when he started for the Los Angeles slakers in Thursday night's game against in Miami Heat.
James has now played in 1,611 regular season MBA games, time at tying rubber perishes markets stood for nearly 30 years. Researchers believe Python's may contain clues to help treat a range of human ailments from heart disease to muscle atrophy or adenial reports. A Python can go months without feeding.
When it does eat, its body undergoes a dramatic transformation, reversibly enlarging its heart and other organs. Plus digestion dumps all sorts of molecules into the bloodstream. The team of researchers found one molecule in particular that surged a thousand times after a Python consumed a meal.
It appears to act as an appetite suppressing by targeting the hypothalamus in the brain. Jack Google is a molecular biologist at the University of Colorado Boulder. When we give this molecule to obese mice, they eat less and they lose weight. Suggesting that it could be a strong candidate for a new weight loss drug, the team's now founded a company to look into it.
For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel.
