"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, President Trump says he's...
about seizing Iran's main oil terminal on Carg Island.
“He gave an interview to the financial times yesterday where he said maybe the U.S. would”
take Carg Island or maybe it wouldn't, and that he had a lot of options." Trump flew back to Washington yesterday aboard Air Force One. He told reporters, "Then Iran has decided to allow some oil tankers to sail through the Strait of Hormuz last week, and will allow a few more to pass." He says the tankers are, quote, "sign of respect."
But Iran says it is not holding direct talks with the U.S., meanwhile Pakistan says it will host talks between the U.S. and Iran in coming days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is widening his country's invasion of southern Lebanon, calling it a security buffer zone. It's intended to stop Hezbollah militants from firing rockets into Israel.
“And Pierre's law and frayer has more from Beirut."”
First Israeli officials said they'd take Lebanese territory up to the Latani river, 10 to 20
miles north of the current border. Then they ordered residents out of a zone, 10 miles beyond that. That's the principle of a school housing displaced people on the boundary of that zone, where the roar of Israeli warplanes interrupted our interview. Residents are fleeing north and waves, she says, and her shelter is now full.
Israel has been striking homes, bridges, highways, and fuel stations, forcing people from homes that, in some cases, had only just been repaired from the last Israeli invasion in 2024. 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. Federal officials say some airports have had more than 40% of TSA workers call out during
the lapse and funding. Meanwhile White House borders are a 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 conservative political action conference or CPAC has concluded its annual conference
near Dallas, about 1,600 attendees cast votes in a straw presidential poll.
The winner was Vice President Vance, with about 53%, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was second
with 35% but that's a huge jump from last year when Rubio pulled at just 3% at CPAC. A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder says there is less ice in the ocean than ever before recorded. The researchers say, "C" ice is disappearing because of global warming. NASA officials say preparations are going smoothly for a Wednesday launch attempt for the
Artemis 2 mission. As NPR's NL Greenfield Boys reports, its goal is to send astronauts around the moon for the first time since the 1970s. The four-person crew is 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. This is NPR.
