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Iran continues to fire at neighboring countries and it's damaged a desalination plant today in Kuwait.

But Iran's state media have confirmed one of its own desalination plants is still fully out of service.

Iran says it was hit by an airstrike.

NPR's Julia Simon reports experts say attacks on plants that create fresh water are increasingly becoming a weapon of war.

The Pentagon and other defendants are appealing a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocks a federal blacklist of the AI company Anthropic.

NPR's John Ruich reports there's a dispute over how the U.S.

military can use AI.

Wall Street is closed today.

This is for the Christian observance of Good Friday.

You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

The Labor Department says 178,000 new jobs were created in March.

That's a lot larger than the 60,000 jobs that economists had predicted.

President Trump says Vice President J.D.

Vance is the new, quote, fraud czar.

Writing online this morning, Trump says Vance will focus on taxpayer fraud in Democratic states.

Trump is claiming if his effort is successful, he'll be able to balance the federal government budget.

Trump also says raids have started in L.A., but didn't explain what he meant.

Nearly all childhood cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, according to new research.

And Pierre's Gabriela Emanuel reports sub-Saharan Africa has some of the worst mortality rates, and they're rising.

Again, Wall Street is closed today in observance of Good Friday.