"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton, and Iranian missile hit...
in Saudi Arabia, injuring a number of U.S. troops as NPR's Greg Myri reports Iran has
“been striking bases with U.S. forces over the last month."”
The Iranian missile slammed into the Prince Sultan Air Base, a military facility shared by Saudi and U.S. forces outside the capital Riyadh. This comes from a U.S. official, speaking to NPR, who was not authorized to comment publicly. The official said U.S. service members were wounded, and some aircraft were apparently damaged as well.
The Wall Street Journal reported that 10 Americans were hurt in the strike too seriously. Iran is targeted U.S. bases throughout the region since the war began a month ago. Overall, the Pentagon has put the U.S. casualty toll at 13 killed and more than 300 injured. Greg Myri, NPR news, Washington.
Travelers are facing the longest wait times in TSA history, because TSA agents have been required to work without pay during the government's shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
“Employees at some airports are calling out of work at rates of 40 to 50 percent, Ricky Smith”
is the general manager of the world's busiest airport at Lannis Hartzfield Jackson International. During the previous shutdown, it was a full government shutdown, and so TSA employees did not necessarily feel isolated or under-appreciated relative to other federal government employees. This time, that was a factor, right? They seem like TSA employees are the ones who are carrying the brunt of this shutdown.
The House today rejected a bill to fund most of DHS that passed out of the Senate, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says that's because it wouldn't have funded ice and border patrol. Johnson says the House will vote on a bill to fund the entire agency later tonight, but some senators have already left Washington for spring break.
Ten people have filed claims in federal court against the Department of Homeland Security saying the agency violated their constitutional rights, as NPR's Meg Anderson reports the claims
“originate from President Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement campaign in Minnesota”
earlier this year.
The people who filed these federal tort claims alleged their first amendment rights
were violated, while protesting the ice surge in Minnesota. Had a press conference civil rights attorney John Burris detailed some of what they say they experienced. "We have people who are like dragged out of the car and were being tazard, who have been punched, who have been hit, pushed against the sidewalk, kicked in various times.
Those are unconstitutional use of forces." Burris, who represented Rodney King against the LAPD in the early 90s, says he expects more people to come forward. The federal government must now respond to or deny the federal court claims. Meg Anderson and Pair News.
U.S. stocks deepened their drops today as Wall Street finished off at 5th Strait losing week. It's longest such streak in nearly four years, the S&P 500 fell more than one and a half percent. This is NPR.
Minnesota will be the flagship of the No King's protests tomorrow. Emotions are still raw over President Trump's immigration crackdown of the killing of two protesters by federal agents there, more than 3,000 events are planned in communities across the country, rallies are also planned in more than a dozen other countries.
The Catholic diocese of Albany, New York, has reached a $148 million settlement with hundreds
of people who say they were sexually abused, Miriam Ahmed from Member Station WAMC reports. The diocese settled with a committee representing more than 400 victims. The settlement comes after New York child abuse survivors were allowed to file lawsuits as part of a lookback window created under state law in 2019. Albany Bishop Mark O'Connell says $50 million will be paid from parish assets.
There is no amount of money that can erase the pain. So we paid from our heart, from our sacrifice, but there's no way that this is like perfect amount that everyone's happy. The diocese across the country have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy as a result of sexual abuse settlements.
For NPR News, I'm Muddy Ahmed in Albany.
The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuation earlier this year says doctors
still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station 59-year-old Mike Finch said in an interview with the associated press that he was eating dinner when he went into distress. He couldn't talk and remembers no pain, think his log more than 549 days in space. This is NPR News.
