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As bombing continues in Iran, President Trump seems to be sending mixed signals about how long the fighting will continue.
“He posted on social media Friday that he's considering winding down the fighting, but at”
the same time, the military is deploying more ships, along with another 2,500 marines to the region. And as the war continues, NPR's Dominican Montenegro says Trump is also struggling to find allies to support the war efforts. This is a president who really believes in domination, not collaboration.
And it turns out that talking badly about allies over a long period of time, not making a moral case before getting into the Iran war, and not having leverage might mean that people aren't going to go along with what you want. I mean, tariffs are really a big factor here.
You know, he's been threatening tariffs since the beginning of his second term in office,
but those threats don't carry the same weight since the Supreme Court made it harder for him to use them whenever and however he wants. That's in Piers, Dominican Montenegro. President Trump called NATO allies cowards on social media Friday.
“He said they don't want to help open the straight of Hormuz to oil tankers threatened”
by the Iran war. Tehran has been striking energy infrastructure across the region. Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, say they've deployed an anti-drone units to several Middle Eastern countries. And Piers, to run a kick-assist reports from Kiev.
Ukrainian security chief, who stem a mayor of visited five Middle Eastern countries in the past week to talk about countering grown attacks. Writing on social media, Umeraf said Ukrainian specialists had been sent to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan. The main focus is intercepting Shahet attack drones, which Iran has launched on Gulf
Nations hosting American bases. The U.S. and Israel initiated the war on Iran. Shahet drones resemble small jets and carry explosives. Russia makes its own Shahetz and has used more than 57,000 of these drones on Ukraine. Johanna Kikisis and PR News, Kiev.
Heavy rains continue across Hawaii.
“The system has expected the linger over the islands through the weekend as Hawaii public”
radios build dormant reports. The evacuation sirens pierced the usual quiet of the North Shore of the island of Oahu Friday. Unity's known for surfing spots and tourist stops have been inundated with fast-moving flash floods.
The water has lingered. Houses have been knocked off their foundations. Cars swept away because of earlier storms, some have been without electricity for days. One local concern in Earth and Dam dating back to the days of sugar plantations in the early 1900s.
The Wahyawid Dam has been teetering on the brink of overflow, threatening some 2500 residents enforcing the evacuation of the towns of Haleva and Waalua for NPR News. I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu and you're listening to NPR News. The K-pop boy group BTS will be hitting the stage in Seoul, South Korea in just a few hours for their first concert in more than three years.
Police have closed down the city center for the expected crowd of more than 200,000 people hoping to attend the live event.
The band has also released a new album that sold almost 4 million copies in its first
day of sales. A new survey finds most Americans don't see gambling on sports as a moral issue, that's 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 wagering 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. Half states 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. President Trump has issued an executive order that aims to prevent the college football playoff and other postseason games from airing during the annual Army Navy game.
That game has held on the second Saturday of December, the NCAA is considering an expansion
of the playoffs they would require the games to begin earlier. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
