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Live from NPR News. I'm Lakshmi Singh. Iran is threatening more strikes in the coming hours on U.S. affiliated targets in the Middle East. NPR's Arzu Rizvani has the latest.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps says that in the coming hours it will strike industries across the region that are associated with the U.S. the group is urging workers to evacuate and civilians to avoid areas near production facilities. The message was first reported by Iran's Tasnim news Agency, which is associated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Last week, the news agency published a list of major US Companies in a social media post that included Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir. The Revolutionary Guards threat came soon after Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Ararchi, called on neighboring countries that host U.S. forces to clarify their positions on the war and adding that certain countries are, quote, encouraging this slaughter. Arizu Rezvani, NPR News, Erbil. In the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Brent
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crude oil is hovering around $100 a barrel as President Trump urges US allies to help keep oil shipments moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
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We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours.
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However, European allies are reluctant to send warships without an idea of how long the conflict might last. Extreme weather alerts span the United States from near record heat in the Southwest to twisters in the east and Mid Atlantic to blizzards in the Midwest. Rick Brewer of member station WCMU is in Michigan, where heavy ice and heavy snow have forced snowplows off some roads.
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Areas of the Upper Peninsula have gotten up to three feet of snow and snowfall records may be broken. Some parts of the region remain under a blizzard warning through Tuesday morning. 60 mile per hour winds along the Lake Superior shoreline closed a state highway. Dan Weingarten is with the Michigan Department of Transportation.
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So if the plows aren't out and about, it's a good sign that the rest of us should stay home if we possibly can.
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Around 100,000 people in the northern Lower Peninsula are without power after heavy ice consumed the area. Northern Michigan is still recovering from a devastating ice storm that hit nearly a year ago. For NPR News, I'm Rick Brewer.
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Well, record setting heat was projected for portions of the western US and for one Claremont, California, resident Andrew Kapoor, the heat might have contributed to a very odd encounter in her kitchen with a bear.
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It's very interesting that it was there
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was in my kitchen.
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It was just more interesting than scary.
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Kapoor talking about the encounter recently. Now why is this happening? Authorities in bear country say the animals are waking up from hibernation and searching for food. President Trump's issuing an executive order formally launching a task force on fraud. It'll be led by Vice President J.D. vance. U.S. stocks have ended the day higher, with the Dow closing up more than 400 points. You're listening to NPR News. The Trump administration is lashing out at major news outlets over their coverage of the US And Israel war against Iran. The nation's chief federal broadcast regulator is even threatening to take away TV licenses over it. NPR's David Folkenflick reports. It's something of an empty threat, but there is a bigger matter afoot.
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President Trump expressed anger over coverage of the war from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth denounced cnn. None of those outlets have TV licenses, not the newspapers and not cnn, which is on cable, not broadcast for that matter. The Federal Communications Commission and its chair, Brendan Carr, also only license local TV stations. So on paper, that's a whole lot of posturing. But the Journal's owners, the Murdochs, own local Fox stations, and the Ellisons, the likely future owners of cnn, possess local CBS stations. On Sunday night, Trump egged on Carr, calling much of the media treasonous, all part of an effort to quell unwelcome questions about the war from journalists and from their corporate owners. David Folkenflick, NPR News.
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The U.S. supreme Court will hear consolidated expedited arguments in two separate cases involving involving the administration's decision to end a temporary protected status for citizens of Syria and Haiti. The court said it would hear arguments in the case during the second week of the April 2026 oral argument calendar. Syrians have qualified for TPS since 2012 due to the brutal crackdown by former President Bashar al Assad. However, in September, then Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced she would revoke Syrians TPS status. This is NPR News.