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In Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. President Trump continues to press allies to join US Efforts to secure the Strait of Hormuz. That's the passage off the coast of Iran that helps transport oil throughout the world. But as NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports, so far no other countries have publicly committed to helping.
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Trump says, quote, numerous countries have told him they're on the way to help the US Police the Strait of Hormuz, but he didn't specify which countries. Despite the president insisting that US Attacks on Iran have been successful so far, the strait still poses a concern.
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Literally, a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile. And it's fairly close range because it is a tight area, which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon.
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Iran's ability to threaten slow moving oil tankers in the strait has become a headache for the Trump administration. 20% of the world's oil supply relies on the passage, and prices have increased since the war began. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House.
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A line of powerful storms is moving across the eastern half of the US Potentially spawning tornadoes. And a major snowstorm hit the upper Midwest over the weekend. NPR's Rebecca Hershey reports. The severe weather is drawing attention to the federal government's hubbled emergency agency.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency is supposed to help respond to weather disasters, including assisting with search and rescue operations and debris removal. But the agency is struggling to get disaster assistance money out the door, with millions of dollars in promised disaster funding delayed. That includes large grants that local governments rely on to pay emergency officials and local first responders. And FEMA has lost thousands of workers since the Trump administration administration began, including nearly 500 in January alone. FEMA did not respond to questions about its readiness to respond to the latest storms. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.
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An Afghan man who served alongside US forces has died in ICE custody. NPR's Go Lawrence reports. He was in the US legally with a pending asylum claim.
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Mohamed Nazir Paktewal served alongside American special forces in Afghanistan. According to documents seen by NPR, he helped U.S. troops for over a decade. In 2021, Paktewal fled Afghanistan with his family because the Taliban were threatening to kill Afghans who had collaborated with the US since then, Pactiwal had been living in Texas with his wife and six children. A family statement says. Last Friday, he was taking his kids to school when federal agents in unmarked cars surrounded Pakthewal and drove him away. He complained of breathing problems and was given medical attention, according to a statement from ice. But the next morning, he was pronounced dead in a Dallas hospital. ICE says the cause of death is under investigation. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
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You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Today marks 100 years since the launch of the world's first modern rocket from a snowy field in Massachusetts. As Sam Turkin of member station GBH reports, the launch set the stage for space exploration as we know it.
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Massachusetts scientist Robert Goddard figured out that in order to reach space, a rocket would need liquid fuel like gasoline mixed with oxygen. And even though his first liquid fueled rocket a century ago only rose a couple dozen feet, liquid fuel would go on to become the main propellant for rocket ships. Laurie Leshin is a space scientist who formerly led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The space age started a century ago with Robert Goddard. Who would have even imagined? We launched a rocket every 28 hours last year. We the world. And that's because of Robert Goddard.
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The rocket scientists work was so meaningful that when Buzz Aldrin walked on, in his pocket was Goddard's autobiography. For NPR News, I'm Sam Turkin in Auburn, Massachusetts.
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Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam Webster subsidiary are suing OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models. Britannica says OpenAI copied nearly 100,000 of its articles to train GPT large language models and that chat GPT produces near verbatim copies of Britannica's encyclopedia entries, dictionary defin, and also other content. Last year, Britannica filed a similar lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity AI that is still going on. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News in Washington.
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With March madness getting underway, coaches are pushing their players to the limits. But an investigation finds that in some instances, tough coaching can go too far.
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She would call us idiots, stupid, worthless,
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low of the low. On the Sunday story, coaches accused of emotional abuse and the players who push back the Sunday story from the up first podcast Listen now on the NPR app.