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Chapter 1: What recent events have occurred regarding Israel and Iran's uranium enrichment?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Iran's state news agency says Israel and the U.S. struck a uranium enrichment facility in central Iran. Israel's military says it's not aware of any such strikes. As NPR's Emily Fang reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this week that Israeli strikes had ensured Iran no longer has the ability to enrich uranium.
On Friday, Netanyahu said this. Iran no longer has the capacity to enrich uranium or make ballistic missiles. Iran's state news agency said joint U.S. and Israeli strikes began hitting the Natanz uranium enrichment facility the next day, early Saturday morning. Israel's military denied such strikes, telling NPR in a statement it was not aware of them.
Chapter 2: What impact did Robert Mueller's passing have on the political landscape?
The Natanz facility was already struck by Israel on March 2nd. The United Nations nuclear watchdog said it had detected no increase in off-site radiation levels today after Iran's report of a second strike. Emily Fang, NPR News, Van, Turkey.
Former FBI director and special counsel in the Trump-Russia election interference probe, Robert Mueller, has died. He was 81 years old. His family says he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2021. Mueller led the FBI for 12 years, starting right before the 9-11 attacks. His investigation into the relationship between the Trump campaign and Russia produced mixed results—
uncovering secret high-level contacts between the campaign and the Kremlin, despite denials from both sides. But Mueller didn't establish the Trump campaign conspired with Russia and decided not to recommend charging Trump with obstruction.
Chapter 3: How are travelers affected by the ongoing government shutdown?
Here's Mueller and AP archived tape from Capitol Hill testimony in 2019.
Based on Justice Department policy and principles of fairness, we decided we would not make a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. That was our decision then, and it remains our decision today.
Trump posted on social media, quote, good, I'm glad he's dead. Now he can no longer hurt innocent people. Partial government shutdown continues after five weeks, meaning longer lines at airports. And Pierre's Matt Bloom has more.
Major airports issued fresh warnings ahead of the weekend to expect more long lines. Atlanta's airport urged travelers to arrive at least three hours early. At Hollywood Burbank Airport, Emily Alexis brought canned goods to contribute to a food drive for TSA agents who've worked without pay for several weeks.
Chapter 4: What were the outcomes of the Elon Musk fraud trial?
Oh, I just feel bad for them. But, you know, they have families and everything, and I just don't like what's going on.
In New Orleans, mass agent call-outs this month led to huge lines that stretched into the airport's parking garage. Leaders on social media said that staffing remains a fluid situation, and wait times may fluctuate from 15 minutes to up to two hours. Matt Bloom, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News. A jury in San Francisco found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding that Musk didn't scheme to mislead investors.
The civil trial, centered on a class-action lawsuit filed just before Musk took control of Twitter, which he later renamed X. People who are self-employed and make too much money for federal help with health insurance premiums are facing some tough choices.
Chapter 5: How are rising healthcare costs impacting self-employed individuals?
And Pierre-Selena Simmons-Duffin reports premium costs for Affordable Care Act plans have doubled this year.
Ken Warner and Parveen Vora are in their mid-50s and live in Manchester, Connecticut. They're self-employed and use the ACA for health coverage. Last year, they had to drain one of their two small retirement accounts. To pay for the hip surgery and the eye surgery and the roof went. We needed a new roof and a new boiler in the same year of the surgery.
Now they're wondering how they can pay for surgery on Vora's other eye and Warner's other hip and eyeing the retirement account that's left.
And this is supposed to be meant for our 60s or 70s or 80s.
They say they feel stuck in a broken system, with health care premiums and out-of-pocket costs only getting more expensive each year. Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
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Chapter 6: What is the latest on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast?
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