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The Ron shot down two U.S. aircraft in separate attacks on Friday, making this the first
“time U.S. aircraft to have been taken down in the five-week-old war.”
One plane was a single seat aircraft, the A-10 known as the Warthog. The U.S. has the pilot was rescued. The second plane is an Air Force F-15E fighter that has two pilots. One pilot has been rescued as search is underway for the second airman. NPR Pentagon correspondent, Tom Bowman, says the attack show Iran's military is still
capable of fighting back." The challenge is getting to a point where Iran is no longer a military threat, but that seems elusive. The U.S. and Israel continued to bomb military sites in Iran. There's more than 17,000 targets have been hit to date, but the regime is still in place.
Despite the now nearly five weeks of attacks on the country. At this point in the war, 13 U.S. service members have been killed.
“The White House is asking Congress for the largest defense budget in modern U.S. history.”
One point five, Trigian dollars, it comes amid the more than month-long war with Iran. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports.
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. Trump 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.”
Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House. Unemployment drops slightly in March as businesses added more jobs than economists had expected. NPR Scott Horsley has the story. U.S. employers added 178,000 jobs in March, off-setting big job losses in February, health
care saw the biggest gains adding 76,000 jobs, about half of that reflects people who returned to work after a February strike. Construction companies, restaurants, and factories also added jobs in March, while the federal government continued to lose workers.
The revised figures for the two previous months were mixed, hiring was stronger than first
reported in January, but February's job losses were bigger as well. The unemployment rate inched down in March to 4.3%, that was largely because almost 400,000 people dropped out of the workforce. Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington. Amazon said Friday, it will add a 3.5% fuel and logistics search charge to sellers because
of higher fuel prices as a result of the war. It will take effect April 17, UPS FedEx and the Postal Service have also imposed search charges. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump Friday signed an executive order that the White House says is needed
to regulate college athletics. It puts limits on name, image, and licensing agreements for players. It also limits the number of times and undergraduate student athlete can enter the transfer portal. Perhaps the number of years of player can participate in college boards to five years
however the executive order is expected to be challenged in court. The BBC has released two long lost episodes of the Colt TV series, Dr. Who, NPR's Chloe Velkman reports the 1965 episodes were found in a private collection. In the nightmare begins, William Hartnol is the doctor, Gleefully incapacitates an uninvited guest on his spaceship, the TARDIS.
The series story arc focuses on the threat of the Daleks, terrifying robots, hellbent on conquering the universe. The non-profit group, film is fabulous found the episodes in a private collection late last year, the BBC archives then restored the reels. In the 1960s and 70s, broadcasters often deleted master tapes of shows to save storage space,
95 Doctor Who episodes are still missing today, Chloe Velkman and P.R. News. At the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, you see L.A. to play South Carolina for the championship, the Bruins defeated Texas, South Carolina defeated Yukon. This is NPR.
