Janine Herbst

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Another threat from President Trump against Iran, saying on social media today it has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or, quote, all hell will rain down.

He's already delayed that threat twice.

This as the search for a missing U.S.

service member in Iran continues.

Two U.S.

military planes were shot down yesterday.

Two other crew members were rescued.

Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former State Department official, says it shows Iran remains a threat.

Speaking there on NPR's Weekend Edition.

In Lebanon, at least 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes yesterday.

About a third of the country is Christian, but the lead-up to Easter has been subdued this year, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports.

The Trump administration was warned by the mortgage industry last year not to kill a program that was helping military veterans avoid foreclosure.

But the VA killed it anyway.

And here's Chris Arnold reports the results show that veterans are losing their homes.

You're listening to NPR News from Washington.

Marmalade, that orange preserve favored by Paddington Bear, may have to be renamed so producers in the UK can sell it in the European Union.

Vicki Barker has more from London.

NASA says the Artemis II lunar mission is on schedule and that the astronauts will enter the lunar gravitational pull tomorrow.

They'll be setting up cameras for close observations of the moon's craters.