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keep the U.S. military station in the Middle East until Iran fully complies with this
week's truth."
“The shaky ceasefire comes as Israel continues to attack his Bola militants in Lebanon.”
Iran has insisted the ceasefire applies to Lebanon, both Israel and the U.S. reject this. And bears long-frayer reports from Beirut, Lebanese officials say 250 people were killed yesterday in Israeli attacks. Church bells have told a cross-beirut on this national day of mourning, even as warplanes still tear across the sky, people are still missing, still under the rubble.
I heard more booms overnight, Israel says it hit another bridge in southern Lebanon. After that wave of attacks, yesterday, in which Israel says it hit Beirut a hundred times in ten minutes, killing the nephew of his Bola's leader.
Has Bola for its part held its fire yesterday, says it viewed the ceasefire as including
Lebanon. The day says it has fired rockets into northern Israel and air-read sirens have gone off there. And Beirut's lorn frayer reporting.
“I mean, while Pakistan is getting ready to host talks this week in between Iranian and”
U.S. officials, the White House says, "Bized President Vance will lead the delegation." Stocks open lower this morning as gas prices hold steady. And Beirut got horsely reports, the Dow Jones industrial average slipped more than 30 points in early trading. "Cruit oil prices rose as a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran failed to provide
much relief for bottleneck tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Triple A says retail gasoline prices showed little change overnight, hovering around $4.16 since the gallon. Diesel prices rose, about two cents a gallon. High gasoline prices are expected to push the government's cost-deliving measure up when
March inflation numbers are released tomorrow, even before the war prices were climbing faster than the Federal Reserve would like. The Commerce Department says the U.S. economy grew more slowly than the final months
“of 2025 than earlier reports had indicated.”
A final Tally says GDP grew at an annual rate of just half a percent in October, November, and December. It's got horsely impure news, Washington. Voters are continuing to swing their support toward Democrats' e-n-races held since the 2024 presidential election.
That includes contests this week in Wisconsin and Georgia.
NPR-Steven Fellert has this analysis, President Trump won Wisconsin by less than 1 percent
in 2024, but this week the liberal candidate flipped a state Supreme Court seat and won by more than 20 percent. In Georgia's 14th congressional district, where Marjorie Taylor Greene won by a 30-point margin in 2024, the Republican replacing her won by just 12 percent. It's not just special in off-year elections with lower turnout where Democratic candidates
are doing better, polling also finds more voters say they preferred Democrats to control Congress in November, and Democratic voters have higher enthusiasm for voting in the midterms. Steven Valer, NPR News, Atlanta. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The U.S. Postal Service says it is going to suspend its contribution payments to its
workers' pension programs. That's effective tomorrow, officials from the U.S. Post Office told the federal government they will run out of cash by early next year, unless there are reforms. U.S. P.S. officials say withholding the payment should not hurt current or future retirees if this suspension is temporary.
U.S. Postmaster General David Steiner issued a blunt warning to Congress last month to act quickly. A Los Angeles woman has been sentenced for illegally selling the fatal dose of ketamine to act or Matthew Perry, he died in 2023. Before the sentence was announced, the judge heard from Matthew Perry's family.
His stepfather Keith Morrison described what he called "the daily grinding sadness." Prosecutors asked for a 20-year sentence, "Defense attorneys asked for time served." The judge ruled that sangus should serve 15 years in prison. "I feel bad for the family of the perpetrator here as well. Nobody wanted it."
Two more defendants in the case still need to be sentenced, including Matthew Perry's personal assistant who injected him with the fatal dose. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. NASA says the crew aboard the Artemis Lunar Mission is preparing to return to Earth. The crew is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego tomorrow around
5 p.m. Pacific Time. This is NPR.
