"Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Iran State News Agency says Israel and the U.S. struck a uranium enrichment facility in Central
Iran.
“Israel's military says it's not aware of any such strikes.”
ZimPier's Emily Fang reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Israeli strikes had ensured Iran no longer has the ability to enrich uranium." In Friday, Netanyahu said this, "Ranna Longer has the capacity to enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles. Iran State News Agency said joint U.S. and Israeli strikes began hitting the Natan's
uranium enrichment facility the next day, early Saturday morning. Israel's military denied such strikes telling an impure and a statement it was not aware of them. The Natan's facility was already struck by Israel on March 2. The United Nations nuclear watchdogs had edited no increase in off-site radiation
levels today after Iran's report of a second strike.
Emily Fang and Pyrnews, then Turkey." Former FBI director and special counsel in the Trump-Russia-Election interference probe Robert Mueller has died. He was 81 years old. His family says he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2021.
Mueller led the FBI for 12 years, starting right before the 9/11 attacks. His investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia produced
“mixed results, uncovering secret high-level contacts between the campaign and the Kremlin”
despite denials from both sides. But Mueller did not establish the Trump campaign conspired with Russia and decided not to recommend charging Trump with obstruction. Here's Mueller and AP archived tape from Capitol Hill testimony in 2019. " Based on Justice Department policy and principles of fairness, we decided we would
not make a determination as to whether the President committed a crime." That was our decision, then, and it remains our decision today." Trump posted on social media, "Good, I'm glad he's dead. Now he can no longer hurt innocent people." Partial government shutdown continues after five weeks, meaning longer lines at airports
and Pyrnews' mat boom has more. Major airports issued fresh warnings ahead of the weekend to expect more long lines.
“The Atlanta's airport urged travelers to arrive at least three hours early.”
At Hollywood Burbank Airport, Emily Alexis brought canned goods to contribute to a food driver TSA agents who worked without pay for several weeks. "I would like to swim there for them, but we know they have families and everything, and I just don't like what's going on." In New Orleans, mass agent callouts this month led to huge lines that stretched into the
airport's parking garage. Leaders on social media said that staffing remains a fluid situation. In wait times, may fluctuate from 15 minutes to up to two hours, mat boom and PR news. "You're listening to NPR news." Majorian San Francisco found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving
down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 20-22 acquisition
of the social media company for $44 billion, but it absorbed him of some fraud allegations
by the Musk didn't scheme to mislead investors. The civil trial centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed "X." People who are a self-employed and make too much money for federal help with health insurance premiums or facing some tough choices.
And if you're Selena Simmons' Duffin reports, premium costs for affordable care act plans have doubled this year. Ken Warner and Parvine Vora are in their mid-50s and live in Manchester, Connecticut. They're self-employed and used the ACA for health coverage. Last year, they had to drain one of their two small retirement accounts.
"It's a pay for the hip surgery and the eye surgery and the roof went." "We need to get a new roof and a new boiler at the same year in the surgery, so yeah." Now they're wondering how they can pay for surgery on Vora's other eye and Warner's other hip and eyeing the retirement account that's left. "And this is supposed to be meant for our '60s or '70s or '80s."
They say they feel stuck in a broken system with healthcare premiums and out-of-pocket costs only getting more expensive each year. Selena Simmons' Duffin and Parvine Vora News And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
