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is in serious talks with a new Iranian regime, he calls "more reasonable," writing
“online this morning, Trump says if no deal is reached, and the state of Hormuz is not”
open immediately. The U.S. will blow up all of Iran's electric generating plants, oil wells, and carg Island. Trump is also threatening to possibly blow up all of Iran's desalination plants. It will cut off water to millions of Iranians civilians, but NPR's Emily Fang says Iran does not appear to be capitulating.
The thrilling and all of this is that Iran's leaders are feeling confident enough that even after weeks of heavy U.S. and Israeli bombing, they're still negotiating aggressively with the U.S. and they've also threatened deadly force if the U.S. deploys troops on the ground in Iran. NPR's Emily Fang reporting.
Israel says its widening its invasion of southern Lebanon and striking has below infrastructure in Beirut. Lebanon's officials say at least 49 people were killed in Israeli attacks yesterday.
“A UN peacekeeper was also killed, but NPR's law and fray are says it is unclear by whom.”
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 Bala 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's 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. Lauren Frayer and PR News Bay Route. This week, TSA agents at U.S. airports across the country are expected to receive their
first paychecks in more than a month.
“NPR's Windsor-Johnston reports it could take a while before airline passengers stop waiting”
in long lines to clear security. Hasengers have been facing long and unpredictable weights at security checkpoints with some lines stretching into airport parking lots. The delays have been driven in part by TSA officers working with our pay since mid-February, leading to staffing shortages and hundreds of resignations.
Johnny Jones is with the Union representing TSA agents. "Even though they're going to get paid, this is not going to make them whole because many of my colleagues are deep in the hole, and so we're advocating for $10,000 for all TSA officers." President Trump signed an executive action allowing the government to resume pay for roughly $50,000 TSA workers.
And so officials warned that it could take time for staffing levels that airports to recover when Sir Johnston and PR News Washington. "You're listening to NPR News."
The Bank of America has agreed to pay more than $72 million to survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's
sex trafficking ring. The civil lawsuit alleged the bank enabled and profited from his crimes. The Bank of America does not admit wrongdoing in this case, and insists it did not facilitate sex trafficking crimes. But officials say the settlement will provide closure for victims.
Millions of people turned out on Saturday for the no-kings protests across the country, St. Louis Public Radio's Brian Monius was at the rally in that Missouri city. "This is for my name and to a lot this time." Thousands of St. Louis members gathered outside of the Union station down for the third no-kings protest of President Donald Trump's second term.
A choir of demonstrators stand shoulder to shoulder while seeing songs to crying federal immigration enforcement in the Trump administration. Mary Ann Merris lives in nearby university city and is a member of the choir. "I got to find a way to express myself, you know, I had to be a part of the movement, it's energizing, it kind of keeps me doing the real little bit I can to change things."
The 62-year-old Merris, as she remains hopeful, Democrats can take back seats during the upcoming midterm elections. Brian Piano's "I'm Brian Monius" in St. Louis. NASA is preparing for a launch attempt on Wednesday of the Artemis-2 mission. The four-member crew is set to launch into space.
There's been 10 days on a journey that will take them around the moon and back to Earth.
This is expected to be the first time that astronauts have flown around the moon since
the 1970s. I'm Corva Coleman and PR News in Washington.
