Janine Herbst

Louisiana's crawfish industry is facing a shortage of workers just as the season gets underway.

As Mel Bridges with member station WWNO reports, it's due to the Trump administration's changes in federal work visa policy.

At the weekend box office, Disney and Pixar's animated environmental adventure Hoppers debuted in the top spot with an estimated $46 million in ticket sales.

The film has made $88 million globally, that against a $150 million production budget.

In second place, Paramount's Scream 7 with $17 million.

In third place, Warner Brothers' The Bride.

It struggled, debuting with just $7 million.

That film cost and reported $80 million to produce.

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

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

President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Defense Secretary Hegseth attended the dignified transfer of the bodies of the six service members who were killed in the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware today.

The soldiers died last Sunday in a drone strike on a command center in Kuwait.

And as the war in Iran enters its second week, questions about the cost are growing.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates the first 100 hours of the war cost nearly $900 million a day.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says the price tag is taking away from other priorities that could help Americans.

Speaking there on CNN,

The Israeli military says it tried to retrieve the remains of one of their soldiers, missing for decades in Lebanon this morning, but the special forces were ambushed as they landed and withdrew.

Lebanese health authorities say 41 people were killed in the airstrikes that covered the withdrawal, including four children.

Empire's Jawad Rizkallah has more from Beirut.

A new NPR review has compiled dozens of accounts describing what it's like to be caught in the Department of Homeland Security's growing surveillance web.