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Gloria Steinem, a trailblazing journalist and leading voice of the modern women's movement has died.
“Steinem spent decades fighting for women's equality at home in the workplace and across American society.”
Her death was announced this morning in a social media post, Steinem was 92. People across Iran are assessing the damage from a heavy wave of U.S. air strikes. Tehran is reporting military and civilian casualties while the U.S. says its forces struck Iranian military targets, and PR's a deal-out-shout-cheap reports. The U.S. military said its recent wave of strikes were in response to recent Iranian attempts
to attack commercial shipping in the straight of Hormuz and against American service members
based in the region. According to a statement released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's
Corps, four members of their aerospace division were killed in U.S. strikes on Tuesday. The Iranian Ministry of Health said that four people were killed during a U.S. strike on a wedding in southern Iran. The U.S. military did not comment on that particular incident, but a U.S. central command
“spokesperson acknowledged there were reports of civilian casualties during Tuesday's attacks.”
On retaliated on Tuesday by targeting the Gulf and Jordan, early Wednesday morning, Kuwaiti Armed Forces said it was intercepting missile and drone attacks coming from Iran. Hadil al-Shalchye and PR news Istanbul. Billions of dollars in taxes went uncollected last year after the IRS cut thousands of
staffers, and PR's got horsely reports on the new findings.
Revenue from tax audits plunged 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. It's got horsely and PR news Washington. The Trump administration's oil agreements with Venezuela are raising new questions about the country's political and economic future. The deal's deep in Washington's ties with acting president El C. Rodriguez following
the U.S. capture of her predecessor, Nicholas Maduro. And PR's John Otis reports on how Venezuelans are responding. With people now, it's really quite jarring to see their current president co-zying up to Trump and to Chevron. Now critics claim that new oil deals are the result of Trump's gunboat diplomacy after
removing Maduro and are therefore unconstitutional. And PR's John Otis. This is NPR. New York City has announced that its banning generative AI in elementary and middle school classrooms. The one-year moratorium will apply from pre-K through eighth grade, including classroom tools that use the technology. Mayor Zoran Mamdoni says the city will use the next year to study AI's impact on children.
High school students will still be allowed to use the technology, but will have to complete AI literacy training twice a year. Federal judge has ruled that Google does not need to break up its advertising business. It will, however, have to make changes to benefit competitors. NPR's John Roach reports a court will last year that Google's ad business was an illegal
monopoly. The vast majority of Google's revenue comes from ads and, in a case brought by the Justice Department, a judge ruled last April that Google's ad business amounted to a monopoly. The DOJ sought the break-up of parts of Google's ad tech business, but now the judge has rejected that idea. The parties are instead ordered to jointly propose a final judgment
within 30 days, including changes to Google's ad business that address the monopoly concerns. Google has lost at least two other recent anti-trust cases, but judges have rejected restructuring as a remedy, and outcome that analysts say is a win for the company. Roach NPR News Uber is cutting about 3300 jobs in its largest round of layoffs since the pandemic. The company says it's trying to reduce management layers and free up
money for growth, including a major push into Robo Taxis. This is NPR News Canada and Tariffs Venezuela and Oil, the war in Iran, these are big complicated stories and they're changing fast. To stay ahead, start your day with up first from NPR. New episodes are available each week day when you wake up, so when news shifts
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