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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from limiting reporters' access to the Pentagon.
“U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman and Washington DC sided with the New York Times and”
ruled that the Pentagon policy illegally restricts the credentials of reporters, including NPRs, who walked out of the building rather than agreed to the new rules last year. The Times sued the Pentagon and Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth in December, claiming the credentialing policy violates the journalist's constitutional rights to free speech and do process.
Kuwait Petroleum says drones targeted one of its oil refineries today, setting different parts of it on fire, and his oil and gas prices continued to soar from the U.S. is rarely wore on Iran, and PRs A.A. Batrally has the latest. The state-owned Qatar energy gave a detailed breakdown of the damage. To its rustle-fanned complex from Iran's missile attack Wednesday night, the company says the
attack slashed its capacity to export liquefied natural gas by some 17 percent, and says
it will take up to five years to repair the damage. Qatar says this will impact supplies to China, South Korea, Italy, and Belgium. And Qatar says a facility operated by shell that converts natural gas into fuels for engine oil and lubricants was also struck that night, and will be offline for at least a year.
Iran attacked these vital Qatar eat sites in response to an Israeli attack on Iran's most
“important gas facility. Qatar and Iran share the world's biggest gas reserve in the”
Persian Gulf. A.A. Batrally and Pyrenees, Dubai. Cuban doctors working abroad are a major source of money for the Cuban government, but more than a half a dozen countries have started sending those doctors home or phasing out the arrangement, as NPRs at Gabriela Emmanuel reports this comes as a result of U.S. pressure.
For more than 60 years, Cuba has sent doctors and other medical professionals abroad to work in underserved communities. The Cuban government is often paid a hefty sum, and the doctors make a small fraction of that. Stephanie Panachele Bataya is at the University of Warwick in the UK.
It is the highest income of foreign funds for Cuba, so it's a huge support to the Cuban economy. The U.S. calls the system human trafficking, and it has threatened to cut off U.S. assistance to countries that participate.
“Now, Guatemala, Jamaica, Guyana, Honduras, and others are bowing out of their arrangements”
with Cuba, or are trying to pay the doctors directly. Gabriela Emmanuel and PR news. A federal judge has ruled that the government overreached when it declared certain types of gender affirming care unsafe for young people. The ruling's part of a multi-state lawsuit filed against health secretary Robert
F. Kennedy Jr. The judge says Kennedy did not follow administrative procedures when he issued the declaration in December. The declaration warns doctors that they could be excluded from federal health programs if they provide treatment such as gender affirming surgery and puberty blockers. U.S. stocks sank again today, the S&P 500 fell one and a half percent.
This is NPR news. After nearly a hundred years on the air, CBS radio will end broadcasting in May, according to an internal CBS memo obtained by NPR. CBS news radio is heard on roughly 700 affiliates.
The cuts affect about 6 percent of CBS's workforce. The memo calls this a necessary decision
stemming from a shift in station programming strategies in challenging economic realities. Doctors without borders, or M.S. F. warns that those displaced by fighting in parts of South Sudan, require urgent support. Michael Coloki has more. The humanitarian organization said yesterday that an escalation of violence between South Sudan's
military and opposition groups in the northeast of the country had forced thousands of people to flee their homes. M.S. have warned that without sustained humanitarian support further displacement of people, coupled by the risk of disease outbreaks, could result in a catastrophe. The aid group added that a number of remote communities in South Sudan remain without
lifesaving assistance. Last month the United Nations Security Council expressed grave concern over escalating violence in parts of South Sudan and called on all the warning parties to seize hostilities, adding that the fighting was undermining the country's stability for NPR news of Michael Coloki in Nairobi.
NASA's moon rocket is back at the launch pad following hanger repairs. The 322-foot rocket made the slow, four-mile trek today at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. It could blast off in early April with four astronauts.
The first to fly to the moon in more than half a century.
The fly around the moon in their capsule and then come straight home without stopping. This is NPR News from Washington.
