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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Pentagon has now confirmed a total of 18 US troops killed in action during the Iran war since February. Four soldiers died since last Friday. One was on a US Base in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq during a detonation of a downed Iranian drone. The other three died on a joint US Air base in Jordan. The current Pentagon tally for wounded personnel in the war is 482, 100 of which occurred in the past two weeks. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hagseth says troop training would have to be cut back if the Pentagon doesn't get the $67 billion in supplemental funds it's requesting from Congress. He also raised concerns about troop pay and weapons that defend against enemy drones and missiles.
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Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions and sustain vital operations without disruption.
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Republicans are trying to pass the budget package before lawmakers take a month long break to campaign for the midterm elections. Later this week, the Senate will consider another war powers resolution limiting President Trump's ability to unilaterally wage war. Most Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the conflict. As gas prices spike again, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has formally approved a plan to stop collecting demographic data from employers. For six decades, the data has been used to help fight discrimination on the job. As NPR's Andrea Hsu Schwartz The EEOC
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voted 2 to 1 along party lines to move forward with this major change. Once a year, large employers must give the government information about the race and sex of their employees. But the agency's current chair, Andrea Lucas, says this reporting requirement imposes significant costs while offering limited enforcement value. She also says it may promote rather than reduce discrimination. Meanwhile, the lone Democrat on the commission, Kolpana Kotegal, says ending the data collection will kneecap the agency's ability to investigate discrimination. Now the public has 30 days to weigh in. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
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Federal health officials have remained focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as a source of the multi state cyclospora outbreak despite an inaccurate test result reported over the weekend. NPR's Yuki Noguchi has more.
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Experts think we're actually dealing with several unrelated outbreaks right now. The biggest by far is Michigan and Ohio, which account for most cases right now. U.S. health officials say iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms in Mexico was the source that product was recalled. But now if you look at a heat map of these states where the cases are, the southern Michigan border with Ohio is like the worst. It's like 10 times the rate of that of nearby states.
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NPR's Yuki Noguchi reporting. Computer chip makers and other AI winners carried wall street higher today. This is NPR News. Tropical Storm Bertha is expected to weaken in the Gulf of Mexico as it gets closer to the U.S. but forecasters say it still could bring coastal flooding and heavy rain from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana. Areas along the northern Gulf coast are under a tropical storm warning through tomorrow and could see heavy rain and flooding into Thursday morning. Federal prosecutors in New York City are charging a man with arson for setting off fireworks and igniting a blaze outside the city's biggest immigration court. Samantha Max of member station WNYC reports.
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Prosecutors say Andrew Arabaca spent months planning the attack and buying supplies. They say he purposely chose to carry it out at a busy entrance and that he knew his actions could put people in danger. Prosecutors also say he confessed to what he did and why he did it. After his arrest, Arabaca's defense attorney says his actions were likely motivated by mental illness. The defense asked the judge to release him to a psychiatric hospital, not send him to jail. The judge said she wants Arabaca to get treatment, but she's not convinced that he'll comply, so she ordered that he be held in jail. Instead, Officials say three people suffered minor injuries, including one immigrant on the way to a court appointment. For NPR News, I'm Samantha Max in New York.
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Serial swindler and ex Republican congressman George Santos will be a reality TV show contestant in September. Santos will appear on the fifth season of fox's Special Forces. World's toughest test participants be subjected to chemical gassing and other military themed challenges in a Malaysian jungle. This is NPR News from Washington.
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