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Civilians may be among the casualties in the latest wave of strikes in the Persian Gulf
in the U.S. Iran War.
“U.S. Central Command says American forces never target civilians, but that it's aware”
that the Iranian state media reports. And Pizarre Batrari has more." Iran's foreign ministry says strappin'l from a U.S. attack in Hormuzgan province along the state of Hormuz hit a wedding, killing and wounding people. Iranian officials say communication towers in the area were also knocked out.
Iran's state TV, quoting a local official, reports most of those wounded are women in children who were transferred to a hospital in Minab, the same city where Iran says a U.S. strike in February, killed at least 120 school children. The Pentagon is still investigating that attack. President Trump says the latest U.S. strikes are in retaliation for Iran's "failed attempt
at adding sea mines in the state of Hormuz. He warned a further strikes if Iran responds. But Iran immediately fired back at U.S. troops in the region with Jordan and Kuwait reporting Iranian missile attacks, A. Abatrari and Pyrnus, Dubai." Another immigrant in custody of U.S. immigration's and customs enforcement has died,
“just hours after he was taken into detention.”
And here's Vanessa Romall has more. The death of a Chinese man in U.S. territory marks the 57th death of an immigrant
U.T.E., held in the care of the government since the start of President Trump's second
term. 24 of those have occurred since January 1st. U.S. immigration in customs enforcement says Lianyang way was arrested by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety on August 21st, after allegedly attacking a family in their home.
A day later, way, whose legal immigration status ended in 2019 was taken into ice custody. But before any legal action could be taken, the 51-year-old was found unresponsive by a corrections officer during morning checks, just hours later, ways official cause of death remains under investigation, Vanessa Romall and Pyrnus. Billions of dollars in taxes went uncollected last year after the IRS cut thousands of
staffers.
“If your Scott Horsley reports on new findings from the Treasury Department's Inspector”
General. Have a new from tax audit's plunge 35% last year, as the Trump administration laid off thousands of IRS auditors. Any savings from the staff cuts were dwarfed by the drop in tax collections. The Inspector General says the fallout could be even larger if more people conclude they
can avoid paying taxes without the risk of getting caught. Natasha Seren, who is a counselor on tax policy in the Biden administration, says money spent policing the tax code pays off many times over. You're less likely to speed when you know that there is a cop on the beat. More than 25,000 IRS employees were laid off for took early retirement last year, including
about 3,600 tax examiners, Scott Horsley and Pyrnus Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. The judge of Massachusetts has sent the jury home, telling them to come back tomorrow for a six-day of deliberation after they told him they are deadlocked and can't reach a unanimous decision on whether to convict Lindsay Clancy of murdering her three children
in 2023. It's the second time they've told Judge William Sullivan they couldn't come to a verdict. Clancy's lawyers say she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. If the jury still can't come to a decision, Sullivan could declare a mistrial. As kids go back to school in France this week, class rooms are shrinking.
If his owner beersley reports, there are around 160,000 fewer students compared to last year, a sign of Europe's demographic decline due to falling birth rates.
The French Education Ministry says by 2035 schools will have 1.7 million fewer students,
a 14% decrease. The decline is expected to first affect preschools and elementary schools before extending to middle and high schools. The impact is likely to be strongest in Paris where primary school enrollment could fall by as much as 29%.
Sorbonne University Professor Gaboya Latanzio called the decline a tragedy on news channel France 24. It is a concern for how you will organize this school. Of course, we'll have to close down a number of them in some regions of the country. France's Education Ministry says the country's school system will have to be completely revised.
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