Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
A U.S. official tells NPR a second U.S. Air Force combat playing crashed today near
“the straight-up or moves, and that it had one crew member on board who was rescued.”
Meanwhile, one U.S. service member of a two-person crew on an F-15E fighter jet that was shot down over Iran has been rescued, the search for the second crew member continues. Several videos on social media appear to show these rescue efforts, including two American helicopters and a refueling aircraft flying low over the country. Iranian state media posted several photos of debris from a U.S. 15 jet, along with what
looks like an empty ejection seat and televised a call out asking for pneumatic tribes and local villagers to target any foreign pilots in the area. The White House is asking Congress for the largest defense budget of modern U.S. history, one and a half trillion dollars. The spending boost comes amid the U.S. is more than two a month long, more, with Iran,
and Pierce Daniel Kurtzleben has more.
This spending boost would be paired with a requested 73 billion in cuts to domestic spending,
according to a budget summary from the White House.
“The annual budget request represents a blueprint of the executive branch's priorities, though”
Congress ultimately sets spending levels. Some outlined his priorities during a closed press lunch this week with religious leaders. "It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things they can do it on the state basis. You can't do it on a federal.
We have to take care of one thing, military protection. We have to guard the country." The White House posted a video of the event before deleting it.
Daniel Kurtzleben and Pierre News, the White House.
The group of 24 states filed a lawsuit today to stop President Trump's latest executive border on voting from going into effect. And Pierre's Miles Parks reports the order attempts to add new restrictions on who can vote by mail.
“This suit filed by a group of democratic states is the third to be filed challenging the executive”
border. After the Democratic Party sued on Wednesday and a coalition of voting rights groups sued on Thursday, the Constitution is explicit in delegating power to run voting to the states, although Congress can step in to set national rules for federal elections as well. In a statement, New York Attorney General, Latisha James referenced all that, saying "no
president has the power to rewrite the rules on his own." Numerous legal experts said they expect court to swiftly block this order. As they did with Trump's order last March, which tried to add new restrictions to vote a registration. Miles Parks and Pierre News, Washington.
The job market picked up a bit last month. The Labor Department says employers added 178,000 jobs in March. But February's jobs were revised lower for a loss of 133,000 jobs compared to the initial estimate of 92,000 jobs lost. This is NPR.
Christian leaders in Jerusalem say their whole week's celebrations including on Easter's Sunday, as best they can, given wartime restrictions. Israeli police have strictly limited gatherings in the old city. They say for safety from incoming missile fire from Iran. Pierre's carry-con has more.
Catholic leaders help good Friday services inside the church of the Savior in Jerusalem's old city. That's instead of along the Via de la Rosa Street where the faithful usually re-enact, where Jesus is believed to have walked before his crucifixion. Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali says Jerusalem, without the usual tens of thousands of
religious pilgrims, is sad. "But we wait a bit of days and we pray for peace." Israeli police had stopped top Catholic officials from entering the church of the Holy Sepulchur on Palm Sunday. After worldwide criticism, a small group of religious leaders are now allowed to hold
Holy Week's services inside the church that dates back to the 4th century. Carry-con and PR news Jerusalem. In college basketball, the NCAA Women's Final Four takes place tonight with all four and number one seeds taking the court in Phoenix. South Carolina plays Connecticut and then Texas plays UCLA.
The men's Final Four takes place tomorrow night in Indianapolis with number three seed Illinois playing number two seed Connecticut, followed by Michigan playing Arizona. Both of those are number one seeds. The winner's advanced to Monday night's title game in Indianapolis. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
