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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Ram. A US Pilot who was shot down over Iran last week has been rescued in a mission carried out by the U.S. and Israel. NPR's Dear Pervez reports.
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A U.S. air Force officer who along with another crew member ejected from a jet shot down in Iran on Friday, was rescued by US Forces Sunday morning. Tasnim News agency affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard says at least five people were killed by US And Israeli forces involved in the operation. President Trump announced the rescue on social media, calling it one of the most daring search and rescue operations in US History. Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ebrahim Zolfar posted a video on X calling the operation an escape rather than a rescue. Deep Advaz, NPR News, Vaughn, Turkey.
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On this Easter Sunday, President Trump went on Truth Social to threaten Iran in a profanity laden post. He said Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day, repeating his threat to strike critical infrastructure if Iran doesn't reopen the Strait of Hormuz by tomorrow. Trump ended the post with praise be to Allah. The Strait of Hormuz carries about one fifth of the world's oil supply and gasoline prices have spiked since the war began. David Goodwin is a former energy envoy for the State Department and former assistant secretary of energy. He says even if the strait reopens and the war ends, it will take months for prices to go back down.
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Assuming there's actually a ceasefire and that Iran is interested in respecting it, it's going to be at least a couple of months. Reopening of the straits will be slow because it may have been mined. Also, the logistics of getting all the ships that are trapped in out and the ones that are out in will be slow repair. There's been a lot of damage to infrastructure. We don't know how bad. Takes time to get the crew ins. There's also restart. A lot of the oil fields have been damaged in Iraq and in other places. You can't turn them on fast with old infrastructure or you can dam damage the fields.
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NPR he was interviewed on NPR's Weekend Edition. Union leaders for U.S. postal Service workers are raising concerns about President Trump's new executive order that calls for restricting voting by mail. NPR's Hansi Luang reports.
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President Trump's executive order calls for his administration to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in each state. It also calls for banning the U.S. postal Service from delivering mail in ballots to anyone not on those lists. In their lawsuits, Democrats, voting rights groups and almost two dozen states argue the Constitution gives state legislatures and Congress, not the president, the power to set rules for federal elections. Dimass and the National Rural Letter Carriers association says the order would weaponize the Postal Service to determine a voter's eligibility.
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It's going to cause confusion and could cause further delays in the daily handling of the mail and the daily routine and work of a postal worker.
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Trump says his order is trying to stop illegal voting by noncitizens in federal elections, a problem that numerous studies have shown is incredibly rare. Hansi Le Wang, NPR News.
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This is NPR News. Pope Leo celebrated his first Easter as pope today. He urged leaders to end the conflicts now ranging around the world, that they must end every desire for domination and power. He offered brief easter greetings in 10 languages, including Arabic and Chinese. An alarming number of California's giant sequoias have been damaged by extreme wildfires over the past decade, according to a new study led by researchers at UC Berkeley. From member station kqed, Lakshmi Sara reports.
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The study was published in the Journal of Fire Ecology and shows that wildfires have killed more than 17% of all mature giant sequoias since 2015. Kristin Shive is an environmental professor at UC Berkeley and the study's lead author. She says both mechanical thinning and prescribed fire could help save more of the state's sequoias in the future.
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Part of what we need to do in these very degraded forests that haven't burned in over 100 years, we could go in there and use those areas, sort of capitalize on the good work the fire did to get them much more resilient.
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Chive hopes the research helps lawmakers pass legislation like the Save Our Sequoias Act, a bill that recently passed the House of Representatives. For NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Sara in Berkeley.
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The astronauts aboard Artemis 2 are now more than halfway to the moon. They're to arrive Monday, fly around it and then fly home. The mission is encountering more problems with a toilet, which had malfunctioned after Wednesday's liftoff. The crew has backup union collection bags. Until that's fixed, they're the first crew to go to the moon since the Apollo mission ended more than 50 years ago. I'm Nora Ramm, NPR News.
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