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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.
Chapter 2: What were the results of the primary elections in North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas?
Voters cast primary election ballots today in three states, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Texas, where the most hotly contested races are being held. According to an AP race call, incumbent Texas Senator John Cornyn is headed to a Republican runoff against State Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Four days into a war that President Trump has suggested could last several weeks or longer, hundreds of people have been killed, most in Iran, but the Pentagon says six U.S. service members have been killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait. President Trump's reasons for attacking Iran continue to shift. NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports he now says it was proactive.
Trump had previously said that the U.S. acted in Iran because Tehran's nuclear program was close to having missiles that could reach the U.S. Now, he says he believed an Iranian attack was coming first, though he did not cite any intelligence to that effect. It was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.
I felt strongly about that. The U.S. struck Iran over the weekend after weeks of building up a large military presence in the region, even as negotiations to try to reach a deal with Iran were ongoing. Trump touted the success of the mission thus far, though he has not outlined how he sees the conflict ending.
But he did say that, quote, lots of people are coming forward to negotiate a resolution. Deepa Shivaram, NPR News, the White House. Top administration officials were on Capitol Hill Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with the full House and Senate and making the case to Congress for the Iran war. They included Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
We're going to unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of President Trump's changing reasons for attacking Iran?
You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions.
Democrats say President Trump should have sought congressional approval of the Senate due to vote Wednesday on a war powers resolution in the House on Thursday. The leader of California's Democratic Party urging struggling candidates for governor to end their campaigns. From Ember Station KQED, Guy Mazzarotti reports.
With nine major Democrats running for governor, there's a chance they could split the vote in the June primary and allow two Republicans to advance to the November election. Now, party chair Rusty Hicks is calling on Democrats to drop out if they lack a viable path to the general election.
But hours later, one low-polling candidate, former state controller Betty Yee, officially filed for the ballot. We're undergoing a process of constant assessment. that every time we do that, we just see that this is still a wide open race. Candidates who remain in the race after this Friday will be on the ballot when voting begins in May. For NPR News, I'm Guy Marzarati in San Jose. This is NPR.
In Georgia, the father of the accused gunman who killed two students and two teachers at a high school northeast of Atlanta in 2024 has been convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Jurors took less than two hours to convict 55-year-old Colin Gray.
Prosecutors say Gray gave his troubled teenage son a rifle for Christmas, enabling him to carry out the shooting at Apalachee High School. Some of the most prominent figures in autism research have curated a group to counter ideas coming from the Trump administration, and Pierce John Hamilton has more. It's called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee.
It was formed just weeks after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced every member of a similar committee that advises the federal government on autism research priorities. The new group plans to offer alternative guidance.
It includes two former directors of the National Institute of Mental Health, leading academic scientists and doctors, a former congressman, and members of advocacy organizations. Most of them have criticized Kennedy's efforts to link vaccines and autism, as well as his support for ideas about the condition that lack credible scientific backing.
The Independent Committee plans to hold its first public meeting on March 19 in Washington. John Hamilton, NPR News. With the Iran war widening and oil prices climbing, the regional financial markets in Asia are extending their losses into another day. South Korea's benchmark has plunged 11 percent in Wednesday, trading Japan's Nikkei down more than 3.8 percent after Wall Street lost ground.
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