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A U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed with NPR that the U.S. has
“determined with certainty that about one-third of Iran's missile arsenal has been destroyed.”
The story was first reported by Reuters. Since the start of the U.S. Israel led war against Iran, U.S. forces have struck more than 10,000 targets, targeting Iranian missile capabilities has been described as one of the main priorities by the Pentagon. Yesterday, President Trump publicly stated that Iran had, quote, "very few rockets left,"
after nearly a month at war with the U.S. and Israel. The U.S. Senate has agreed to fund nearly all of the Department of Homeland Security through
September, the exception's immigration customs enforcement which already got 75 billion last
year. NPR Sam Greenglass reports on where this leaves Democrats who have been holding out on reopening BHS until they secured specific changes in ICE tactics. "My northern leader Chuck Schumer said this morning that Democrats will keep pushing for reforms.
The White House has previously expressed a willingness to adopt some of Democrats demands,
“but not others, including non-agosibles for Democrats, like banning officers from wearing”
masks. And some Republicans are now indicating the window to negotiate is over." Well, TSA agents have been working weeks without pay in Atlanta, W.A.B.E.s. the Lee Oppenheimer, as an update, Atlanta Airport General Manager Ricky Smith says the
lines have calmed down compared to what they were last weekend, but TSA workers are still
calling out of work at high rates. "You haven't experienced, like, over the weekend, where you can not find floor space, because there's so many people just in the terminal. I mean, everywhere, the baggage claimaries taking a lot of the area and even the kerbsize. It was a standing."
And Smith says Saturday and Sunday lines are unpredictable. As Moore's Spring Break travel kicks in, he also predicts more kids and more families in line. With all the callouts, TSA union leaders have also expressed airport safety and national security concerns.
The Atlanta Airport website still recommends travelers arrive a minimum of four hours early. For NPR News, I'm the Lee Oppenheimer in Atlanta. NPR has confirmed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hague Seth intervened to stop the promotions of four Army officers, all black or female soldiers, on track to become one-star generals. That's according to a U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly on the story that was
first reported by the New York Times. A second U.S. official also not authorized to speak publicly confirmed that Hague Seth has been waiting out senior officers who are deemed ideologically incompatible. In a statement to NPR, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called the reporting quote "fake news from anonymous sources."
U.S. stocks trading lower with a down now down 670 points or nearly 1.5 percent.
This is NPR News. Two Chinese container ships attempted to cross the straight-of-war moves today and then turn back. Here's NPR Center for Park. The two ships, CSCL Indian Ocean and CSCL Arctic Ocean, try to exit the Persian Gulf, but
then made an abrupt u-turn near Iran. It's unusual given that the two ships had Hong Kong flags and signaled they were Chinese owned. China is a strategic ally of Iran and has condemned the U.S. and Israel for starting the war against Iran.
“Iran has retaliated by effectively closing the straight-of-war moves, a crucial waterway.”
But it says passage is allowed for friendly nations. While some Chinese ships have reportedly been able to pass through the straight, China's government has not confirmed this. A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Billionaire Elon Musk. He had claimed that advertisers on a social media platform ex had organized an illegal
boycott. Here's NPR as Bobby Allen. Back in 2023, Musk sent from the stage of a public event. If someone is going to blacklist me with advertising, then well, they can hit the road.
Except he used more graphic language. It was a reference to advertisers like Apple, Disney, IBM, and Comcast that had halted spending on X after concerns that anti-Semitism was spreading on the site unchecked. Musk sued over it, alleging a brand organized conspiracy against him. Now a federal judge in Texas has thrown the lawsuit out for a lack of merit.
The legal defeat comes days after a jury in San Francisco found Musk to fraud it investors in his purchase of the site once known as Twitter. Musk's lawyer has said the trial was corrupted by the judge's bias against Musk, Bobby Allen and PR news. I'm Lakshmi saying, "NPR News."
