Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Three weeks into the U.S. is rarely war with Iran, more American Marines are on their
“weight to the Middle East, and PR's Quil Lawrence reports more than 2,000 Marines are being”
deployed. The USS Boxer Group of three ships carrying thousands of Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditioner Unit has left California, and will take about three weeks to reach the Gulf, according to two U.S. officials who were not authorized to speak publicly. But in addition to the USS Tripoli Group, with more than 2,000 Marines, expected to
arrive soon from Japan. Centcom would not comment on the deployment or its mission, but Marines are traditionally ground troops. Quil Lawrence and PR News. Stock market dropped again amid fears that the war in Iran is escalating, the Dow tumble
to another 443 points or 1 percent, as NPR's Raphael Nom reports investors are bracing for a longer conflict than they had anticipated. In the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran at the end of last month, investors crossed
“their fingers and hoped the war would end quickly.”
But three weeks later, investors are starting to get deeply concerned as the war rages on.
The straight of her moves remains virtually shut, which means that critical supplies of energy
and other vital shipments like fertilizer are not getting through. That's raising big concerns about inflation, and that the global economy is going to be hit by an energy crisis. All three major indexes dropped, and have now fallen for 4 consecutive weeks. Raphael Nom, NPR News.
The Justice Department is finally a new lawsuit against Harvard University, saying its leadership failed to address anti-Semitism on campus creating grounds for the government to freeze existing grants and seek repayment for grants already paid. At a federal judge in Oregon ruled against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. yesterday, in a case about gender affirming care for youth as NPR Salina Simmons' Duffin reports
at issue is a declaration Kennedy signed in December.
The declaration stated that treatments for transgender youth, like hormones, puberty blockers, and rarely surgery, are unsafe and ineffective and failed to meet quote standards of health care. That contradicts the position of major medical groups. A group of democratic state attorneys general sued, arguing that Kennedy can't unilatarily
change medical standards. On Thursday, a federal judge in Oregon ruled against Kennedy. The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to NPR's query. Kennedy also proposed that all Medicare and Medicaid funding could be withheld from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to youth.
Many hospitals have already shuddered their programs. Salina Simmons, Duffin, NPR News. Long wait times continue at some airports, as the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues to affect TSA agents who are required to work without pay. Officers are taking time off and officials say hundreds more have quit their jobs altogether.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The White House wants Congress to preempt state laws governing AI that it sees as too burdensome. It comes as state governments have forged ahead on their own regulations, civil liberties and consumer rights groups have lobbied for more regulations on AI, but the industry and the Trump administration says the patchwork of rules hurts growth.
A commission stacked with Trump allies has approved the design of a gold coin featuring
“President Trump, as NPR's tamer key reports living presidents aren't supposed to appear”
on coins, a principal dating back to the nation's founding, which threw off vestiges of monarchy. On the front of the coin, Trump stands with his fists on a desk in a serious look on his face. Members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved it, urging the gold coin be made
as large as possible. Donald Scarency is a member of a separate federal panel, which is supposed to review coins, but is being bypassed. This is more than a coin. This is a message to the world and a message to America that Donald Trump is a king or a dictator.
The U.S. treasurer said that for America's 250th birthday, there is no profile more emblematic to feature on coins than the current president, Tamer Keith and PR news. A real live fluffy possum was found among stuffed animals in an Australian airport gift shop, a browsing passenger for spotted the marsupial peering out from among the kangaroos on the display shelf.
The airport says it's still a mystery how the possum got into the store and how long it's spent in there. You're listening to NPR News.
