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U.S. forces are searching for a missing service member after two American fighter jets were
“shot down over Iran on Friday, two crew members have been rescued.”
NPR's D. Parvez reports on how Iranian state media is covering the search. State media has televised a call-up, asking for nomadic tribes and local villagers to target any foreign pilots in the area. The announcement includes a monetary reward for any capture, a U.S. official confirmed to NPR that a search and rescue operation is in progress.
NPR's D. Parvez reporting is real says it's carried out a new wave of strikes on what it calls regime infrastructure in Tehran, the military says it had air defense sites and facilities tied to weapon storage and research. Iran continues to fire at neighboring countries, damaged a desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, but Iran state media have confirmed that one of its own plants is still
fully out of service. The government says it was hit by an air strike. NPR's Delhi Assignment reports experts say attacks on plants that create fresh water are increasingly becoming a weapon of war. Desalination is the process of using electricity to separate sea water into a salty solution
on one side and fresh water on the other. Across the Middle East, countries rely heavily on the process. Kothada and Bahrain get more than 90% of their drinking water from it.
“As climate change increases the severity of droughts, experts see desalination plants as a key”
adaptation tool. Since the recent war began, strikes have hit plants in Iran, as well as Kuwait and Bahrain. Earlier this week, President Trump wrote on social media that the US may strike more Iranian desalination plants, civilian infrastructure sites like water plants are banned as targets by international law, Julia Simon and Pair News.
The CDC is warning of an illicit drug that's often found alongside fentanyl in some parts of the country. NPR's ping-mong reports it can cause dangerous withdrawal symptoms. Dr. Michael Lynch is an ER physician based in Pittsburgh. He started seeing overdoses involving metatomidine some two years ago.
The powerful sedative is often mixed with fentanyl that fentanyl overdose drugs don't work
on it. So people would start breathing again, but they wouldn't wake up, even after people got in the locks on or not can't. Patients also came in delirious, agitated, with very high heart rates and not responding to typical medications.
So what we're seeing is 10 fold increases and people needing ICU care for withdrawal. According to the CDC, the drug is most prevalent in the Northeast US, though it's also showing it more in the Midwest and the South, ping-wong and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Amazon says it's adding a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to sellers because of higher
fuel prices amid the war in Iran. The online retailers says the added costs will take effect on April 17. The Trump administration is suing three states, Arizona, Illinois and Connecticut, arguing the prediction market industry should be federally regulated and not subject to the rules of state gambling commissions.
Some states have sued individual companies claiming they offer unregulated sports gambling. Good men with new Hampshire public radio reports. March man, this is one of the most widely bet on events of the year and for states, regulated
“sports gambling has become a key source of revenue.”
But prediction market companies have come seemingly out of nowhere, offering people the chance to win money on the outcome of games, but state governments don't get a cut. State Senator Tim Lang, a Republican, says new Hampshire could soon join other states that have filed lawsuits. They're welcome to apply for a license, right?
They're welcome to come to the state and work within our state regulations to make this happen. They should not be able to skirt our state laws. The prediction markets and the Trump administration say the federal government, not the states, should have oversight.
For NPR news, I'm Todd Bookman. Illinois will play UConn tonight in the NCAA Men's Final Four in Indianapolis.
Michigan will take on Arizona in the second matchup.
The two winners will advance to the championship game on Monday night. I'm Windsor-Johnston, and you're listening to NPR news from Washington.
