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The government is expected to start paying TSA workers today, but the White House borders
“are, Tom Homes and suggests, immigration enforcement agents recently deployed airports and”
responses staffing shortages are not going anywhere just yet. NPR's Jeff Brady with new details? President Trump directed the transportation security administration to pay workers from existing funds. Immigration and Customs enforcement officers have been helping the TSA with checking
identification and other tasks. On CNN State of the Union, Tom Homes had ICE officers might remain at airports. "Pens, how many TSA agents come back to work? How many TSA agents have actually quit and have no plan coming back to work?" The TSA says hundreds of workers quit after going weeks without pay, that's increased security
wait times by hours at airports around the country. NPR's Jeff Brady reporting, President Trump's threatening to destroy Iran's energy resources. It's desalination, plants, and other vital infrastructure. If the Islamic Republic does not agree to a ceasefire plan, quote, "Shortly." In a social media post and remarks during a financial times interview, Trump suggested
U.S. troops could seize Iran's hard island, oil export hub.
“Iran has resisted direct negotiations, meanwhile the country struck a key water and electrical”
plant in Kuwait, also targeted an oil refinery in Israel. The U.S. War with Iran continues to rattle global energy markets, and PR Scott Horstley reports crude oil prices have resumed their upward climb. "Cruit oil prices in the U.S. jump back above $100 a barrel retail gasoline prices, or hovering just below $4 a gallon."
Traders are trying to sort through mixed signals about the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran. That country has retaliated with attacks on energy infrastructure in both Israel and Kuwait. Americans who the rebels also fired missiles at Israel raising concern the Iranian-back group might resume its attacks on commercial shipping traffic and the red sea that would
add another complication for global commerce already squeezed by Iran's chokehold on the straight of Hormuz. Scott Horstley and PR News Washington Israel says it's widening its invasion of southern Lebanon and also striking his Bola infrastructure in Beirut and PR's Lorne Faire has latest. Video posted to social media shows a UN helicopter landing in southern Lebanon to evacuate
the wounded from a peacekeeping base there. Indonesia says the peacekeeper killed was one of its citizens and that three others were wounded by indirect artillery fire. The UN says it doesn't know the origin of that fire, Israel or his Bola, and his investigating. UN troops have been stationed in southern Lebanon for decades to monitor cross border
conflict.
This month Israel invaded again, killing more than 1,200 people in displacing more than a million
according to Lebanon's government. The World Health Organization says a paramedic was also among those killed Sunday in a strike on an ambulance and that a medical warehouse was also destroyed. Lorne Faire and PR News Bay Route. This is NPR News.
Air China's running direct flights from Beijing to the North Korean capital Pionyang for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. This comes just weeks after China resumed passenger train services between the capals. In the wake of the outbreak, North Korea banned all foreign tourism, but it has begun relaxing its rules for travel.
As more coffee and food chains provide protein in their offerings in the U.S., there are conflicting interpretations of just how much protein the body needs. NPR is also an Aubrey reports on the science back strategies to cut through the politics and marketing height. Health Secretary Kennedy tells stake over cake and the new dietary guidelines recommend
a higher level of protein intake. But protein needs varied from person to person, since the human body is continuously breaking down old proteins and making new ones. It relies on the amino acids from the food we eat. And the amount we need depends on body weight, age, since protein needs increased with
age, and activity level. Exercise creates a stress on the body, explained Stewart Phillips, a researcher at McMaster University. When you eat more protein, you can take more up, you make more new muscle proteins.
“That's why if you exercise regularly, you may need to eat more protein.”
That was an Aubrey NPR news. NASA is making final preparations to send four astronauts on a historic lunar mission as early as this week.
The Artemis 2 crew will be the first to orbit the mood since the Apollo 17 and 1972.
Lift off a schedule this Wednesday night for about a 10 day trip around the moon. The Dow is up 310 points. It's NPR news.
