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Reports from Lebanon say at least 31 people there have been killed by Israeli strikes.

Schools have been closed in Beirut.

NPR's Jawad Rizkallah says they've been turned into makeshift shelters.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society says 555 people have been killed in the attacks in Iran.

It's not clear if this includes victims from a weekend attack on a girls' elementary school.

Iranian media say more than 168 children were killed.

Members of the Trump administration are expected to brief Congress tomorrow on the U.S.

war in Iran.

This comes as lawmakers were already expected to take up measures this week on limiting the president's war powers.

NPR's Luke Garrett reports top lawmakers involved in intelligence have different views of the war in Iran.

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The Department of Homeland Security is still partially shut down.

Congress still has to agree on a spending bill.

Democrats want changes in how federal immigration agents operate.

The lapse in funding means that TSA agents and airports are going without full paychecks.

The body of civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson will lie in state today in South Carolina's capital.

Jackson was born in South Carolina, although he based his civil rights group, the Rainbow Push Coalition, in Chicago.

Jackson died last month at the age of 84.

Flags in South Carolina will be lowered to have staff.