Janine Herbst

The Commerce Department's newly released data shows the economy in the fourth quarter of last year didn't grow as much as first thought.

The GDP's fourth quarter estimate has been cut to seven-tenths of a percent growth.

That's down from the 1.4 percent initial take.

Consumer spending after adjusting for inflation was anemic in January, and hiring has also ground largely to a standstill.

Wall Street lower by the close, the Dow down 119 points, the Nasdaq down 206 points, the S&P 500 down 40.

I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.

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

The Pentagon says six U.S.

service members are dead after their U.S.

military refueling aircraft went down in western Iraq as they supported the war in Iran.

U.S.

Central Command says the crash followed an unspecified incident involving two aircraft in, quote, friendly space and that the second plane landed safely.

The cause of the crash is under investigation, though the U.S.

military says it wasn't shot down.

That brings the U.S.

military death toll from the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran to at least 13 U.S.

service members.

Ukraine's President Zelensky says the Trump administration's decision to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil will only empower the Kremlin.

An official in Lebanon says the armed man who crashed his vehicle into a Michigan synagogue yesterday had lost four family members in his native country after an Israeli airstrike last week.

The FBI says it was a targeted attack on the Jewish community, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer calls it an anti-Semitic attack.