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to open the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on civilian infrastructure as approaching
“and Pierce Franco-Ordonia's reports on Monday's White House press conference in which”
he repeated his threats. He also doubled down on some of those dramatic threats of strikes on power plants and bridges. If Iran doesn't meet a deadline Tuesday that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night. And he told reporters repeatedly that he is not worried about being accused of war crimes.
When asked specifically about hits to Iranian bridges and power plants, he said Iranians were, quote, willing to suffer of that in order to have freedom. With the Tuesday night deadline getting closer, Iranian officials are urging young people to form human chains around power plants across the country to protect them. Over the weekend, a commercial satellite company cut off access to imagery of the Middle East
in Pierce, Jeff Bromfield reports the announcement, makes it more difficult to see what's happening.
“The company, called Planet Settit, was withholding imagery of the mid-East and Iran indefinitely.”
Planet uses a fleet of around 150 satellites to scan Earth's land masses on a daily basis.
The images have been critical to verifying events on the ground in recent conflicts like
the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. In this latest war, journalists and independent experts looked at planet photos to better understand strikes by the U.S. and Iran. Without the images, it will be more difficult to check claims by all sides in the conflict. The company said the decision was voluntary and came at the request of the U.S. government.
Jeff Bromfield and PR news. The U.S. astronauts are making their way back to Earth following Mondays lunar flyby. The crew was the first to fly around the far side of the moon in more than 50 years, as impures no Greenfield-Boys reports. The first woman to fly close to the moon, NASA astronaut Christina Cook, was struck by the
“sight of small bright craters scattered all over.”
She said they didn't look like anything she'd seen in photos. And what it really looks like is like a lampshade with tiny pin prick holes and the light shining through. They're so bright compared to the rest of the man. The astronauts also described seeing colors, greens and browns as they took numerous photos.
The crew will return to Earth Friday and splash down off the coast of California. NASA says a landing on the lunar surface won't happen until 2028 at the earliest. Now Greenfield-Boys and PR news. The Michigan Wolverines are champions, Michigan won the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Monday night beating Yukon 69 to 63.
It's Michigan's second national title in the first since 1989.
This is in PR. A major black student government organization at the University of Missouri will be stripped of its title, Kat Rampcomar, a member station KPIA reports it for other identity-based organizations will also lose funding. The Legion of Black Collegion says it's the only black student government in the country
at a predominantly white university. It's one of four major identity-based organizations of the University of Missouri campus, alongside others serving Asian Latino and LGBTQ students. They are now recognized student organizations, sharing funding with 600 other student groups.
A Mayum Morgan is the president of the Legion of Black Collegions. We have regular meetings with the administration that they're required to have with us because we're a student government. The University of Missouri says it's complying with the federal memo, targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from last July.
For NPR News, I'm Kat Rampcomar and Columbia, Missouri. The U.S. Department of Education is rescending a handful of agreements at the Obama and Biden Administration centered into a school districts that were the subject of civil rights cases. The agreements were intended to expand civil rights protections to include students' gender identity.
The education department says it will no longer monitor or enforce the deals reach with a handful of school districts in one college. Oil prices are above $110 a barrel and stocks in Asia are mixed as President Trump's Tuesday night deadline approaches for Iran to reach a deal to open the Strait of Port Moos or face attacks on civilian infrastructure.
In Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea stocks are down. This is NPR News.
