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destroyed one of Iran's largest bridges.
“This is after he threatened to send Iran back to, quote, "the Stone Ages," and Pierce”
Emily Fang reports there are reports of several air strikes across Iran. The B-1 bridge west of the Capitol to Iran connecting it to the city of Karaj was under construction when it was hit in the tack that Iran's IRGC Security Forces said killed eight people. The IRGC also threatened to hit major bridges in the Middle East in retaliation.
People in Iran reported strikes all across the country overnight, and a spokesperson for one of Iran's biggest steel companies says it will take at least half a year to repair damage from strikes on industrial factories starting last month. 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, a threat that's been criticized by many Iranians
who oppose Iran's current regime, including opposition figure Reza Pachlavi, the son of the former Shah. Emily Fang and Pernus Istanbul.
“U.S. attorney Pam Bondi is out of her job after President Trump announced that online”
yesterday afternoon. The attorney general had been criticized for mishandling files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She had not succeeded in President Trump's demand to legally target his perceived political foes and Pierre's carry Johnson says Bondi has changed the federal agency in other ways.
She presided over a massive exodus at the Justice Department. Hundreds of prosecutors and FBI agents now gone reshaping the institution. Judges, of course, have criticized the Department for blowing off orders. Great.
Sure, he's pretty frequently declined to bring indictments, which almost never happened
before last year. And some of the top leaders in the FBI who were fired last year have sued, they say they were ousted for political reasons because they were not sufficiently loyal to Donald
“Trump and Pierre's carry Johnson reporting.”
The Trump administration is suing the states of Illinois, Connecticut, and Arizona. The administration claimed it holds the exclusive right to regulate prediction markets. And Pierre's Bobby Allen reports recent moves in the prediction market industry have set off debates about profiting off war and insider trading. The commodity futures trading commission has taken the rare step of launching lawsuits
against three states. It argues sites like Calshy and Polly Market should not be regulated as gambling businesses. The question of whether prediction market sites are gambling or what's known as a futures contract has set off more than two dozen lawsuits pitting state gaming officials against the Trump administration.
It's the latest legal development over an issue expected to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Lawmakers in Washington have been expressing alarm over the sites where people can bet thousands of dollars on military strikes in Iran, the extent of famine in Gaza and what Trump officials will leave the White House next.
Donald Trump Jr. is an adviser to both Calshy and Polly Market, Bobby Allen and PR News. This is NPR. The Cuban government says it will release more than 2,000 prisoners in connection with the Christian Holy Week. Cuban officials say the detainees include both foreigners and Cuban citizens, including
women and young people. The news comes as the Trump administration has put an oil embargo on the island, cutting vital energy supplies to Cuba. The crew of the Artemis 2 mission is herdling toward the moon, they'll fly by in a few days and then circle back to Earth.
One topic of discussion, what do astronauts eat? NASA says they have dozens of items from which to choose, from central Florida public media, Marianne Somerol explains. The menu includes a wide variety of foods with things like spicy green beans, tropical fruit, salad, and maple cream cookies.
In a NASA video about eating in space, astronaut Christina Cook says foods you wouldn't even imagine being rehydrated are actually good. NASA's Norm Night, the director of the flight operations directorate says NASA tracks each meal to ensure the crew's health. We have a food lab and we have folks at the Johnson Space Center tracking what they eat,
the nutrition, the calories, it makes a difference. Each crew member was able to help sample and craft their own menu preferences before launch. From PR News, I'm Marianne Somerol in Orlando. Forecasters say late winter storm is bringing heavy snow, sleet and ice to the upper mid-west
and great lakes today, northern Michigan and Wisconsin could see up to a half inch of ice. I'm Kurva Coleman and PR News.
