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out the possibility that President Trump could send ground troops into Iran.
“Speaking last hour at the Pentagon, Heggseth says the Trump administration is not going”
to reveal much about its war plans. "You can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do to include boots on the ground. Again, our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways we could come at them with boots on the ground.
And guess what? There are. So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the President of the United States and this department. Or maybe we don't have to use them at all.
Maybe negotiations work, or maybe there's a different approach, but point is to be unpredictable in that." Heggseth also would not say if there's any kind of timeline to end the war. Israel's military says it still has plenty of targets and ammunition left to hit in Iran.
“That was in response to questions about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks”
that Israel has passed the half way point in the war. And Pierre's carry-con reports. Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani says it's not up to Israel's military to decide how long troops continue, but he says they're prepared. "At the end of the day, the decision making on timing belongs to the political echelon
to leaders, we are prepared to keep operating for weeks to come. We have the targets for that, the munitions for that, the manpower for that." Netanyahu said in an interview, the war was "definitely beyond the half way mark in military terms," he later clarified. Netanyahu says he has ordered forces deeper into Lebanon, stoking fears of long-term
Israeli occupation, and has already displaced more than 1.2 million people, along with
the four Israeli soldiers than a separate incident to UN peacekeepers were killed Monday, carry-con and PR news to live. "The war against Iran is more than a month old, gas prices have soared. Triple A reports the average cost for a gallon of regular is now $4 dollars. That's a dollar more than what it was a month ago."
Federal prosecutors in New York are examining whether large payouts on prediction-market sites like Polly Market have violated insider trading laws, and PR's Bobby Allen reports. Polly Market betters earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on the timing of military strikes in Iran, and when Venezuela and Leader Nicolás Maduro was captured. Now prosecutors in the southern district of New York are investigating the trades, seeing
an end-first report of the probe. Both Polly Market and its main competitor, Calshy, say they ban insider trading, but policing is largely left up to the platforms themselves. Polly Market has had many markets on wars and military actions that operates in overseas exchange-based in Panama.
As spokesman for New York's US Attorney's Office said, "Prediction markets are not outside the scope of anti-money laundering and insider trading laws. Billions of dollars are bet every week on Polly Market in Calshy," Bobby Allen and PR news. This is NPR. T.S.A. agents who've lost pay for more than a month are now getting some of their back
paychecks, President Trump used an executive order to find funding for their wages, but the Department of Homeland Security is still partly shut down, the House and the Senate and Democrats and Republicans still disagree on funding. Now, so could launch its Artemis-2 mission tomorrow evening. The crew of four aims to fly around the moon and back.
From central Florida Public Media Brendan Burn reports the countdown is underway.
For the first time in more than 50 years, the clock at Kennedy Space Center has been turned
on for a crude lunar mission. Mission managers say that all the issues with the rocket, like it's leaking hydrogen and faulty helium system are fixed. Launch director Charlie Blackwell Thompson says they'll keep a close eye on the rocket and only launch one ready.
But certainly, all indications are right now. We are an excellent, excellent shape as we get into count. Once that count hit zero, NASA's massive SLS rocket will launch the Orion Space capsule and its crew for. Three US astronauts and one from Canada.
“The 10-day mission will test out key systems of the Orion vehicle as it travels around”
the moon and back, taking the crew farther into deep space than any other mission. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Burn in Orlando. The final four are set for the women's NCW basketball tournament, and it will be all four top seats going into the tournament. South Carolina will play Yukon, while Texas will face UCLA.
The final four games are at this Friday. The championship game is going to be held on Sunday. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, from Washington.
