"Live from NPR News in Washington," Ancorva Coleman, the war against Iran con...
The Pentagon says U.S. forces are destroying Iranian naval targets that threaten international shipping.
“That includes the very narrow, straight-of-horse moves, but Iran is continuing to attack”
neighboring Arab countries, officials in Kuwait, say Iranian drones hid one of their oil refineries today sparking a fire.
Iran says the top spokesman for its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC,
was killed today in a strike. Meanwhile, and Beers Emily Fang is on Turkey's border with Iran, speaking to Iranians who say they have mixed feelings about joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on their country. An estimated hundreds of Iranians are crossing to Turkey each day, some to escape bombing others simply to connect to internet, which the government has blocked in Iran.
This man's being on condition of anonymity for fear of being arrested said people are trying to live normally in Iran, despite the bombing. He says he hopes the strikes can topple his government, but he warns for the civilians killed in the strike. Israel said it had killed the IRGC's top spokesperson, Ali Muhammad, 90 overnight in
“an air strike, and joint U.S. and Israeli strikes also killed the senior commander in”
the IRGC, as well as Iran's security chief, Ali Lerajani this week. Emily Fang and Pernus Van Turkey. The Trump administration is giving the go ahead for local TV station owner Nextar to purchase stations from its rival, Tegna. But a Beers David Folk conflict reports a group of state attorneys general is suing to block
the deal. "If consummate in Nextar would own 259 stations and 44 states in the District of Columbia, the Federal Communications Commission waived its rules to allow Nextar reach 80% of U.S. households more than doubling the Colonel out figure. The Commission didn't even have a public debate or a vote. It's a loan Democrat condemned
the decision." FCC chair Brendan Carr argues the move will ensure the viability of local stations. Carr City wants to strengthen the hand of local station owners against national networks.
“As it saw to prove, Nextar backed Carr's attacks on the ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel”
and mocked CNN in an ad campaign. The Justice Department also signed off on the deal, David Folk conflict, and PR News. The Trump administration has sued Harvard University again, this time over alleged failures to protect Jewish and Israeli students. This lawsuit is demanding that Harvard returned billions of dollars of taxpayer money.
The Trump administration has already filed other lawsuits against Harvard for alleged wrongdoing. Action star Chuck Norris has died at the age of 86, according to an online statement from his family. Norris was hospitalized yesterday in Hawaii for an undetermined issue.
He began his career as a martial arts instructor.
Norris went on to make action films that grossed more than half a billion dollars.
He once appeared in an action film, opposing legendary late Bruce Lee. He later moved to the series Walker, Texas Ranger. This is NPR. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings for the Hawaiian island of Oahu, officials in Honolulu County are telling people in the northern part of Oahu
to get to higher ground now. The New Survey finds most Americans do not see gambling on sports as a moral issue. That is in sharp contrast to people in other countries, as Fiona Murphy with the Religion News Service reports. Sports betting has taken off across the U.S.
With Americans waging about $170 billion in 2025. This week, as college basketball fans placed their bets on March Madness, a new survey from the Pew Research Center finds that just three in 10 Americans say gambling is morally wrong. The staff say it's not a moral issue at all.
The survey asked about attitudes towards gambling generally and did not distinguish between compulsive and casual gambling. Still, that's a sharp contrast from countries like Indonesia, India, and Italy were more than 70% of people view gambling as a moral. Of the 25 countries surveyed, only Canadians were more accepting of gambling than Americans.
American men and women are equally likely to say gambling is wrong. For NPR News, I'm Fiona Murphy in New York. 16 more games get underway next hour in the NCAA Men's Division I basketball tournament.
Several teams are seeking their first ever win in tournament history, including the University
of Akron, who faced Texas Tech today. Yesterday, the University of Nebraska defeated Troy University, 76-47, for its school's first ever tournament win. They had previously been in the tournament eight times. on Core of a Coleman and PR News in Washington.
