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U.S. officials are providing more details about Saturday's rescue of an American airman who was shot down by Iran Friday.
“The other pilot onboard the F-15 was safely recovered Friday.”
The CIA reportedly launched a deception campaign to spread the word "the second pilot out already" been found. NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman explains, "Un Friday this F-15 war plane was shot down likely by anti-aircraft guns, some 150 miles inside Iran. Pilot was quickly recovered, but his weapons officer are curled.
It's been again two days evading Iranian militia and revolutionary guard forces.
He was eventually plucked from a crevasse and a mountain of some 7,000 feet high. I'm told by a U.S. official, he's in stable condition, though no detail on his wounds he was flown by helicopter to Kuwait. One day, President Trump issued new threats against Iran's infrastructure and a deadline if the straight-of-horn moods is not reopened.
Israeli attacks have killed at least 39 people across Lebanon today, according to the
“health officials there, NPR's "Lorn Freyer" reports one of the biggest attacks targeted”
"Beirut's southern suburbs where Iranian-backed Hesbuba has its offices." "Residence posted this video to social media showing people covered in gray dust, fearing the wounded out of a collapsed building on slings made of blankets.
Israel often issues evacuation orders, but this attack in Beirut's coastal area of
Genach came without warning, hitting a dense residential area near a public hospital. Health officials say a four-year-old girl was among those killed in another Israeli air strike near the coastal city of Siden, which has absorbed thousands of displaced people from farther south, Israel had warned her entire village to flee. The Vatican-led aid convoy was canceled on Easter Sunday for security reasons.
It was trying to bring aid to Christian villages under siege in southern Lebanon, where fighting between his Bola and Israeli ground troops is heaviest. Lauren Freyer and PR News Beirut."
“With online gaming and sports betting now legal in many states, ads are everywhere”
it seems, NPR Sequoia Corrillo reports. A recent national survey from Common Sense Media, the nonprofit group that focuses on kids and concerns about media, found that 36% of boys aged 11 to 17 and the U.S. have gambled in the past year.
"It's a lot of kids, like a third of kids is a lot of kids."
Michael Rob is Common Sense Media's head of research. He notes that playing fantasy football with friends or making a march madness bracket may be harmless for kids and can help strengthen male-friend groups, but for a small subset of boys, things can get out of control, Sequoia Corrillo and PR News. "Can etiquette plays Michigan tonight in the finals of the NCAA.
This is NPR." Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelensky says he's concerned that a prolonged U.S. is really war against Iran could damage American support for his countries now four-year fight against Russia. Speaking in Istanbul, Turkey after meeting with that country's leadership, Zelensky said,
Ukraine urgently needs additional their defenses, including the Patriot missile system to stop Russia's ongoing aerial attacks. Zelensky says he fears some of those weapons could instead be sent to the Middle East. He has offered Ukraine's expertise to counter Iranian drone attacks and offered defense cooperation with Gulf Arab states who are being targeted by Iran.
The Union representing the screen in television writers announced a tentative deal with the Hollywood Studios' Saturday and PR's net at Urlebe has more. The last time the writer's guild of America negotiated with Hollywood Studios in 2023, it went on a strike that lasted for months. This time, the Union posted an announcement on his website saying it had reached a tentative
agreement after just a few weeks of negotiations, and weeks before the current contract expires. Details have yet to be revealed, but they are expected to include health benefit protections and new rules about the use of artificial intelligence. The announcement comes as the writer's guild of America West can tense with its own internal
strike by dozens of its own workers, who alleged issues with unfair labor practices and union-busting activities. Netto Libby and PR news. At the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Sunday, UCLA defeated South Carolina. This is NPR.
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