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Pakistan says it will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran, but Iran's Parliament
speaker says they are a cover for the 2500 U.S. marines that arrived in the middle least this weekend. And the speaker threatened that U.S. troops would be set on fire if they attempt to ground invasion. Israel, meanwhile, says it's not ready for the fighting to end just yet.
Israel wants this war to keep going. I spoke with a military official today who said Israel would still need weeks more and once weeks more to complete its military goals in Iran. Israel doesn't understand the momentum here as headed toward an negotiated end of the war. So Israel sped up attacks this weekend on Iran's military industry.
It's manufacturing sites.
That's in PR's, Daniel Esther and Jerusalem.
“The fighting between Iran and Israel is making religious activity difficult during an important”
time for both Christian and Jewish faith. Jerusalem's holiest places are sitting empty with both Passover and Easter just one week away. The Western Wall is also closed and officials say a key pass over blessing will take place with just a small number of people attending.
Ice officers could remain at airports even after TSA workers start getting paid again. That's according to White House borders are Tom Homan. As NPR's Jeff Brady reports, TSA paychecks could resume as early as later today, even though Congress has not allocated money for those payments. After lawmakers failed to pass a Department of Homeland Security budget last Friday,
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 Homan said ice officers might remain at airports. "Pen so 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. Democrats vowed to block THS funding without reforms after officers killed two US citizens and Minneapolis. Jeff Brady and PR news. It'll be a short week ahead on Wall Street and PR Scott Horsey reports that traders may
welcome the break after a big sell-off last week. All the major stock indexes fell last week as the US War with Iran continued to scramble
“energy markets, crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel and gasoline prices climbed to about”
$1 a gallon higher than they had been before the war. This coming week brings a fresh look at the US job market, we'll find out on Friday how any jobs employers added or subtracted in the month of March. The job market has shown little movement for the last six months, but at 4.4% the unemployment rate remains relatively low.
Traders will not get an immediate opportunity to react to the jobs report, the stock market will be closed that day for the good Friday holiday, Scott Horsey and PR news, Washington. And you're listening to NPR news. Stocks in Asia finished down on Monday, Malaysia's benchmark index fell one and a half percent while South Korea's market finished down 5.3% and Taiwan fell 2.4% - Jakarta stocks
are down 14% for the month. Project Hail Mary, a feel good movie about a space forage is still soaring at cinemas and PR's Bob Mondello has our details. Ryan Gosling's film about an alien encounter during a long shot effort to save Earth, no one has ever done this before, took off like a rocket last weekend, it is time go.
Thinking we can go time pal, and apparently the 85% of its audience that said in exit polls that they'd recommend Project Hail Mary to a friend actually recommended it to a friend. We're most blockbusters drop drastically after a big US opening.
Project Hail Mary will finish this second weekend with another $54 million in the till.
And it's holding even better overseas, so the worldwide 10 day total will top $300 million all before the start of next weekend's lucrative Easter holidays, Bob Mondello and PR news. Rayland Mollon sank a desperation three pointer at the buzzer Sunday to give UConn a thrilling win over tournament top seed Duke 73 to 72 with that win, UConn will now play Illinois next Saturday in the men's final four, well Michigan will take on Arizona.
All America forward, Sarah Strongman while scored 21 points as defending champion UConn rolled over noted Dame Sunday 70 to 52 in NCAA Women's Action, the Husky's now moving to the women's basketball tournament final four, UCLA also advancing after reading Duke 70 to 58. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
