Kristen Wright

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NPR has confirmed more than 2,000 U.S.

Marines are on their way to the Middle East as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran reaches the three-week mark.

Israel launched new strikes in and around Tehran today.

Overnight, Iran hit a key oil refinery in Kuwait.

The war is causing friction between the U.S.

and Israel.

Rachel Brandenburg from the Israel Policy Forum says she thinks the White House underestimated what was ahead when Israel launched airstrikes.

The war is causing turmoil in the global oil markets.

The cost of Brent crude, the international benchmark, has risen over the past few hours to $112 a barrel.

Regular gasoline in the U.S.

is averaging $3.91 a gallon.

Israel says it's killed more top officials in Iran, including the spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Iran's supreme leader has not been seen publicly, but a statement attributed to him vows revenge.

NPR's Carrie Khan reports.

In reviewing statements from lawsuits against the Trump administration,

NPR has found people in Illinois, Oregon, and Minnesota who said immigration officers took what appeared to be DNA samples after arresting them.

NPR's Meg Anderson reports.

CBS News Radio will end broadcasting in May and all positions will be eliminated, according to an internal memo.

Earlier this year, when President Trump was threatening to take control of Greenland, Danish soldiers were prepared to blow up the island's airport runways to prevent a U.S.