Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump is again threatening Iran, saying on social media today, "It has 48
“hours left to open the Strait of Hormuz," or, quote, "all hell will rain down and glory”
be to God." He's already to laid that threat twice. This is the U.S. and Israel continue to pound Iran. Meanwhile, U.S. rescue teams are still searching for a U.S. airman from one of two
planes shot down yesterday in Iran, that's the first time in this war.
And here's Greg Myri Hezmour. An F-15, which is a very good fighter jet, was struck by Iranian fire and western Iran. And this set off an urgent rescue operation by U.S. forces for the two crew members, a pilot and a weapons officer. One was rescued.
We still don't know the fate of the other. The rescue operation is still ongoing. This is coming from a U.S. official, not authorized to speak publicly. And here's Greg Myri, reporting.
“In Lebanon, at least 23 people were killed in Israeli air strikes yesterday, about a”
third of the country's population as Christian, but the lead up to Easter has been subdued this year.
And here's Lauren Freyer, has more from Beirut.
Holy Week services are mixed with funerals on the sound of explosions. Israel's military says it's striking Hezbollah's infrastructure after killing a thousand of its members. Three United Nations peacekeepers have been wounded at their base in the south. The UN says it doesn't know the origin of the explosion.
Israel says it was a Hezbollah rocket. Three UN peacekeepers were also killed there last week. Meanwhile, as the U.S. and Israel attack Iran and Iran retaliates against U.S. allies in the Gulf, Lebanon has not been hit by Iranian fire. But the U.S. embassy in Beirut says Iran may now target U.S. universities in Lebanon.
“The American University of Beirut has shifted some classes online.”
The embassy is also up to its overall warning telling U.S. citizens to leave Lebanon now. Lauren Freyer and Pierre-Newspirut. The attorneys' general of California, New York and Massachusetts say they have concerns about the Trump administration's treatment of unaccompanied migrant girls who are pregnant. They've outlined their concerns on a letter, Mark Bettencourt with the California Newsroom
has more. The letter was sent by California Attorney General Rob Bonta in the wake of a six-month investigation by NPR member stations. This story exposed a federal directive to send pregnant migrant children to a single group home in South Texas, beginning last July.
Child welfare advocates say the move was intended to detain the pregnant girls in a state where abortion is illegal. A Biden-era role requires the government to provide unaccompanied children access to abortion services, but the administration is currently trying to remove that role. The attorneys' general say the policy change could keep the girls from getting "life or
health-saving" abortion care. For NPR News, I'm Mark Bettencourt. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. In Afghanistan, more than 70 people are dead dozens injured after heavy rain and storms across the country triggered lightning, flooding, and landslides over the past week and
a half. More rain is forecast in the coming days and officials are warning people to stay away from river banks. Three-and-a-half years after Bison were reintroduced into Britain, conservation is say the herd is already having an impact on the woodlands where they roam.
The keeperker has more from London. It's been at least 6,000 years since wild Bison last roamed what is now Britain. The can't wild-life trust Allison Reuter told the BBC the small herd of European Bison was introduced to a woodland sanctuary in Kent because the habits of these massive lumbering animals help restore complex habitats that other bovine species cannot.
They come in, they change habitats, they mess things up, they knock things over, they dig things up, they turn things around and lots lots of water, I've really, really benefited from that.
With the herd now growing, the trust is opening so-called Bison bridges, ultimately allowing
them to roam and reshape 500 acres of English woodland. For NPR News, I'm Figgy Barker, in London In college basketball, tonight in men's final four play, Yukon takes on Illinois and then Michigan plays Arizona. The winners of each game will meet in the finals on Monday. Meanwhile for the women, South Carolina plays UCLA for the NCAA title both winning their
semi-final matches last night, the women's final takes place tomorrow afternoon. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News.
