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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The Pentagon says six US Service members are dead after their US Military refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq as they supported the war in Iran. U.S. central Command says the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in, quote, friendly space and that the second plane landed safely. The cause of the crash is under investigation, though the US Military says it wasn't shot down. That brings the US Military death toll from the Israeli war in Iran to at least 13 US service members. Ukraine's President Zelensky says the Trump administration's decision to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil will only empower the Kremlin. NPR's Joanna Kakissis has more.
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The Trump administration says the temporary relief will last until April 11 and is supposed to cool oil prices which have shot up since the US And Israel began their war on Iran. The US Says it applies only to Russian oil already in China transit and will not help Russia much financially. Speaking to reporters in Paris, Zelensky said that's not the case. This single concession by the United States could provide Russia with approximately $10 billion to fund the war, Zelenskyy said this certainly does not bring us any closer to peace. Zelenskyy spoke alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, who said there is no justification for lifting these sanctions. Joanna Kakissis, NPR News.
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K. An official in Lebanon says the armed man who crashed his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue yesterday had lost four family members in his native country after an Israeli airstrike last week. The FBI says it was a targeted attack on the Jewish community and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer calls it an anti Semitic attack.
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We must lower the rhetoric in this state and in this country, especially at this moment where we have seen such a rise in anti Semitism and more attacks on the Jewish community.
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41 year old Ayman Mohammed Ghazali, who was killed in the attack, was a naturalized US Citizen. Many airport security officers at the TSA missed their first full paycheck today as the partial government shutdown continues. And Pierce Joel Rose has more.
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Many TSA security officers live paycheck to paycheck and they're struggling, says Johnny Jones. He's the secretary treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees Council. 100 the a union that represents about 45,000 TSA officers nationwide.
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They're panicking, they're scared, they're afraid and they don't know what they're going to do. They're just flat out not paying their bills because they don't have any money.
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The Trump administration is blaming this missed paycheck on Democrats who are refusing to approve DHS's budget unless Republicans and the White House agree on changes to how immigration officers operate after the deaths of two American citizens in Minnesota.
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NPR's Joel Rose reporting. You're listening to NPR News. President Trump today signed two executive orders that aim to make housing and mortgages more affordable. Under the first order, the federal government would reduce housing regulatory burdens and create incentives for best zoning practices by state and local governments. Now, the second one would reduce regulatory burdens tied to mortgages, making it easier for community banks to provide home loans. But it's unclear how quickly federal efforts can generate new construction or meaningfully reduce mortgage mortgage costs. Evidence of pre industrial pollution has been found in the ice that caps a mountain in the Alps. As NPR's Nell Greenville Boyce reports, this historical record is disappearing as the ice melts.
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This particular glacier lies near the border between Italy and Austria. Researchers drilled down through more than nine meters of it, then analyzed this ice core's layers, which hold chemical clues about past events. Azura Spagnasy is a climatologist at Cafoscari, University of Venice. She says this ice record spans 6,000 years. Layers from medieval times had spikes of lead, copper and silver, likely from air pollution created by increased mining of metals.
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Human activity was already leaving a detectable mark on the atmosphere.
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Ice layers from other periods showed pollution from massive fires, maybe due to land being cleared for farming. A report on the findings appears in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.
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And I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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