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Live from MPR News on trial Snyder, Israel says it has struck a major petroch...

in Iran, the latest and a wave of new attacks occured more than 25 people.

Iran has vowed to continue striking back at Israel and U.S. allies in the region for

people were killed in Israel from a Iranian missile. The escalation in strikes comes as President Trump's deadline looms to bomb Iran's bridges and power plants. If Iran does not allow ships to pass through the straight-of-for-moods, here's Imperial Scary Khan. Defense Minister Israel Kat says Israeli strikes on major petrochemical sites have taken out of production 85% of Iran's major revenue generating

facilities. Israel also says it killed a military leader and the intelligence chief

of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran has confirmed that. The intelligence

chief had only recently been appointed. The previous intelligence chief and his deputy were also killed by Israel. Defense Minister Kat said Israel would continue to quote "hunt down" Iran's leaders. Iran is sent a barrage of missiles towards Israel and Gulf States Monday. Iran's military

spokesman said if attacks on civilian targets continue, retaliation will be "carried

out much more crushingly and extensively." "Cherry Khan and PR News Tel Aviv." Boys, President J.D. Vance is on his way to Hungary ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections. "We're looking forward to seeing my good friend Victor and we'll talk about any number of things related to the U.S. on-grid relationship. Obviously, I'm sure Europe and Ukraine and

all the other stuff will be great and pretty prominently." Fans briefly speaking to reporters as he boarded a plane in Maryland referring to Hungary's prime minister, Victor Orbont. Orbont has been in power for 16 years, but he is facing a tough reelection bid in most independent polls. Orbont trails has made opposition challenger. Orbont was the first European leader to endorse President Trump during the 2016

campaign, Trump returned the favor last month.

The federal agency that runs Medicare told health insurance companies Monday they would get

a 2.5% rate increase from Medicare Advantage plans in 2027. And piercingly to some of his death and reports on the reversal from a plan to keep the rate flat." A 2.5% increase for companies that run private Medicare Advantage plans is a smaller bump than the last few years, but it's much more than what the Center for Medicare and Medicaid

services proposed in January. 0.09%. That sent health insurance stocks down. Companies lobbied for a bigger increase pointing to rising health costs. The lobbying and market reaction seemed to have made an impact.

Medicare official Chris Clamp spoke to reporters on Monday. "We are balancing our stewardship, both in new terms, stability and launchers, sustainability while trying to send the light signals to the market."

The Trump administration has been critical of Medicare Advantage because it costs taxpayers

more per in-worldly than traditional Medicare. "You're listening to MPR news." British government is under pressure to bar Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as the headliner for London's wireless festival of rap and hip-hop music that set for July.

Now known as EA, he has drawn widespread condemnation in recent years for anti-Semitic remarks, notably sponsors Pepsi and Diaggio have withdrawn from the festival its organizer is standing by. The Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the physical world, now a new rule where require public institutions to do the same for the digital world, as MPR's Genaquimeta

reports. Miranda Lisey and Harold Rogers have been friends since undergrad, where as wine students they had a positive experience with their education. They went to grad school with that same expectation, but instead faced major challenges getting learning materials that worked with their assistive technology.

"We are ready fight to be in the room every day of our lives and then we go into a graduate program where we have to fight five times as hard as just no acceptable."

The ADA has always required web accessibility, it just lacked specific technical standards,

which made it hard to hold institutions responsible, but that's about to change. On April 24, large public institutions, including universities, will be required by regulation in the ADA to create digital materials excessively from the Gecko. "Mishigan is celebrating the school's second men's basketball national title in the first since 1989, the Wolverines holding off UConn Monday, 1969 to 63."

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