Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
A U.S. official says one crew member has been rescued from an F-15 jet shot down over
“Iran, and the search for a second crew member continues.”
This is Iran put out a televised call for people in the area to search for foreign pilots and detain them. The White House says President Trump has been brief though he hasn't spoken about the situation yet.
This is the first time America has lost a military aircraft in Iranian territory during
this war that started more than five weeks ago. And President Trump says the U.S. has destroyed one of Iran's largest bridges, and here's Emily Feng has more. The B-1 bridge west of the capital to Iran connecting it to the city of Karaj was under construction when it was hit in the attack that Iran's IRGC security forces set killed
eight people. The IRGC threatened to hit major bridges in the Middle East in retaliation.
“Trump has threatened the U.S. will hit more civilian infrastructure including power plants”
in Iran by next week, if Iran does not open the straight of her moves. And here's Emily Feng reporting.
Republican Congresswoman Nancy May says former attorney general Pam Bondi still has to
testify before the House oversit committee later this month over how she handled files related to the late convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not going to have my arm twisted on this. She was subpoenaed. She is required by law to show up to the oversight committee.
And I will do everything that I can to work behind the scenes to ensure that that happens just because she's fired doesn't mean this goes away. Speaking there to NPR's here and now, President Trump removed Bondi from her job yesterday and his former personal lawyer Todd Blanch has been named as acting attorney general.
“He says she's also concerned about comments Blanch made two Fox news saying the Epstein”
files shouldn't be part of anything going forward. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order to pay all DHS employees as Congress remains deadlocked over funding the agency. And here's Windsor Johnston reports. Airline analysts say wait times have improved since Trump took executive action to begin
paying TSA agents after more than a month. The recovery is uneven, hundreds of officers resigned during the partial shutdown and it can take months to train replacements. Airline analysts Henry Hartfeld says that uncertainty could quickly affect operations. This is a day to day situation.
If the back pay isn't fully repaid and if the TSA workers are concerned that they won't be paid for what they do now, that we're going to start seeing absenteeism increasingly. Back can lead to inconsistent staffing levels at airports making wait times harder to predict. Windsor Johnston and PR News, Washington. Wall Street's close today in observance of the Good Friday holiday.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts fired their engines and they're headed toward the moon. The trans lunar ignition comes 25 hours after lift off, putting the three Americans and one Canadian on course for a lunar fly around early next week. There are Ryan capsule bolted out of orbit around Earth and it's now on its way to the moon,
which is nearly 250,000 miles away.
It's the first engine firing for a moon crew since Apollo 17 set out on that era's final
moon shot in 1972. NASA had the Artemis 2 crew test their capsule's life support systems before clearing them for a lunar departure. Texas on sugary drinks are defective in reducing consumption in fast food restaurants, according to a new study in the journal "Plus Medicine" impures Allison Aubrey reports, researchers
analyze data from a major Taco Bell fast food locations. Researchers studied several years of transactions from Taco Bells, including from drive throughs in Chicago, Oakland, California, Philadelphia, and Seattle. These are all places that had adopted soda taxes aimed at reducing sugar consumption and encouraging healthier habits.
But the study finds that the small tax on soda did not appear to influence decision-making. Other studies show that a soda tax can lead to decreased sales in grocery stores, but this doesn't seem to be the case in fast food. Researchers say it's possible the taxes too low for consumers to notice, Allison Aubrey and PR news.
And I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
