Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Iran State News Agency says Israeli and U.S. forces have hit a uranium enrichment facility
“in Central Iran, as MPR's Emily Fang reports Israel and the U.S. say Iran's enrichment”
capabilities have now been severely degraded. On Friday, Netanyahu said this, Iran, and the U.S., Iran, and the U.S., Iran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles. Iran's 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 NPR 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 that it detected no increase in off-site radiation levels
today after Iran's report of a second strike.
Emily Fang and Pyrnews, Van Turkey. Iran struck two communities near Israel's main nuclear research center late Saturday. The attack destroyed some of the buildings and seriously injured at least seven people. It was the first time Israel's nuclear research center has been targeted in the fighting.
“The attack came after Iran's main nuclear enrichment site was hit in that it was really”
attack. President Trump says he'll order federal immigration officers to help out with their port security as early as Monday unless the bill to fund homeland security is passed by Congress. TSA officers have been working without pace since the partial government shutdown began
five weeks ago and that's led to sometimes hours long delays and security lines at some airports. And our request passing through Atlanta's airport where lines at one point were two hours long, she says they don't blame the TSA agents for the slowdowns. We're federal workers ourselves.
We went through this last fall not getting paid, but TSA workers have been so wonderful and compassionate and kind and positive in spite of their circumstance.
A powerful storm continues to move across Hawaii this weekend and the entire state remains
under a flood watch.
“Hawaii Public Radio's billed dormant has our reports.”
Hawaii Governor Josh Green calls it the worst flooding in 20 years to hit the state. And estimates damages already around a billion dollars in counting. The storm system slammed Oahu Friday night and Saturday swamping houses, cars and power lines and forcing the evacuation of more than 5,000 people. Now the flash flooding and the evacuations are moving east across the island chain to Maui.
Power is out to more than 8,000 customers across the islands. The vast majority of them on the most populous island of Oahu for NPR News. I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. Fighting is continuing in Ukraine this weekend. Officials say a Russian drone hit a homensaparisia Saturday.
Two people were killed in that strike. Russian attacks also knocked out power across the northern portion of Ukraine. Ukrainian forces also shell the Belgorod border area officials. They're say two women were killed in that attack. You're listening to NPR News.
At least 64 people have been killed including at least 13 children. After a strike hit a hospital in Sudan's Darfur region this weekend. The World Health Organization says the attack also left the hospital non-functional. The rapid support forces are blaming the Sudanese military for the attack. The military says they targeted a police station nearby.
The UN says fighting in Sudan has killed more than 40,000 people in April of 2023. New research out to this month says President Trump has damaged American democracy at remarkable speed. And they say he's pushed the U.S. closer to authoritarianism. MPR's Frank Langford has more in that story.
Brightline Watch, which surveys more than 500 U.S. scholars, finds that through tactics such as a massing executive power and attacking the media, Trump has pushed the U.S. system to a point nearly midway between the World Democracy and dictatorship. Dartmouth's Brent and Nihand co-directs the survey. I would say the goal is to govern as an authoritarian.
Another report out by Sweden's VDEM Institute found America's democracy ranking plunged last year from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries. A sign it said that U.S. democracy is being dismantled at an unprecedented pace. The White House dismissed the findings calling it, quote, "a ridiculous claim made by an irrelevant, blatantly biased organization."
Trump has repeatedly said he's no dictator. Frank Langford and P.R. News, Washington. "Cube is there once again living without power after that country's electricity grid collapsed
for the third time this month, the state-owned Cuban Electric Union reported the outage,
but gave no cost. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
