Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, President Trump is again t...
to blow up Iran's electricity plants, oil wells, and possibly desalination plants.
“Those provide water to tens of millions of Iranians civilians.”
Trump says Iran needs to reopen the straight of Hormus to oil tankers, but he also says his team is talking with the new Iranian regime he finds reasonable. However, Trump is still sending U.S. troops to the mid-East, and Pierre's Greg Myri says about 50,000 U.S. troops will be there. This expanding force gives President Trump additional options, but these are still relatively
small numbers. They could carry out specific limited operations, but it's not nearly enough for a major, sustained ground invasion. And neither Trump nor the Pentagon has hinted at the mission, but clearly the most urgent
issue is the straight of Hormus, so their speculation that the troops may be part of an
effort to try to open the straight for oil tankers. And Pierre's Greg Myri reporting, TSA agents have now gone without pay for more than 40 days.
“That's triggered historic wait times and airport security checkpoints, but as NPR's Joe Hernandez”
reports, the Trump administration says TSA workers could be paid as early as today. The Trump administration says it's using funding within the Department of Homeland Security budget to pay TSA workers, that's after Congress failed to reach a deal to fund DHS. lawmakers have disagreed over calls for tighter restrictions on immigration enforcement. It's unclear exactly how the Trump administration's funding plan for TSA will work.
The agency is seeing its longest wait times in history, with some travelers stuck four hours or more in airport security lines. Meanwhile White House borders our Tom Homan told multiple media outlets, ICE agents sent to airports could stay there even after TSA officers are paid. Joe Hernandez and PR news.
The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on Wednesday that could narrow or end birthright citizenship in the United States.
“And Pierre's Jnaki Method reports on how this could change the lives of students with disabilities.”
Medicaid is best known for health insurance, but the program is also among the largest funding sources for K-12 schools, sending billions of dollars each year to help student learning and development. That includes paying for things like occupational therapy and speech therapy for students with disabilities, but to qualify for Medicaid, a student must typically have legal status.
If birthright citizenship is narrowed or ended altogether, hundreds of thousands of children each year may no longer qualify for Medicaid. Schools are still required to serve children with disabilities though, so ending birthright citizenship could shift the financial burden of serving those students to schools, which are already stretched thin.
Jnaki Method and Pierre News. On Wall Street, the Dow's up 400 points. This is NPR News. Russian-controlled news media say that a Russian oil tanker has arrived in Cuba. The Trump administration essentially imposed a fuel blockade on Cuba in January.
Cuba is now in the throes of an energy crisis, there have been island-wide blackouts. Yesterday President Trump said he had no problem with the arrival of the Russian oil tanker. NASA officials say preparations are going smoothly for a Wednesday-launched tent for the Artemis-2 mission.
As NPR's no Greenfield Boys reports, its goal is to send astronauts around the moon
for the first time since the 1970s.
The four-person crew was in quarantine at Kennedy Space Center where a 322-foot tall rocket is being readied at the launch pad. The crew includes a few firsts for a moon mission, the first person of color, the first woman, and the first non-American, a Canadian space agency astronaut named Jeremy Hanson. At a press briefing, Hanson said their flight is actually a collaboration with lots of
international partners. "It's not just three Americans in a Canadian, it is people literally around the world and it's a beautiful thing." Their space journey is expected to last about 10 days. They'll test out their capsule systems close to Earth, and if all looks good, they'll
go on a looping trip around the moon and back. NL Greenfield Boys and PR News. Theves in Italy of stolen three famous paintings, thereby sizan, matiz, and ren-war, local Italian media say that thieves needed about three minutes last week to grab the artworks from a private museum near Parma.
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