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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Chapter 2: What threats did President Trump make against Iran?
Another threat from President Trump against Iran, saying on social media today it has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or, quote, all hell will rain down. He's already delayed that threat twice. This as the search for a missing U.S. service member in Iran continues. Two U.S. military planes were shot down yesterday. Two other crew members were rescued.
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former State Department official, says it shows Iran remains a threat.
It's extraordinary, frankly, in the thousands of sorties that both the Americans and Israelis have flown that this is the first time that you had a downed aircraft. But it is, I think, tremendously symbolic. It suggests that the Americans don't have total escalation dominance of the airspace.
Iranians still have capacity, not to mention the propaganda value of this, assuming the Iranians find the airmen.
Speaking there on NPR's Weekend Edition. In Lebanon, at least 23 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes yesterday. About a third of the country is Christian, but the lead-up to Easter has been subdued this year, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports.
Holy Week services are mixed with funerals and the sound of explosions. Israel's military says it's striking Hezbollah's infrastructure after killing a thousand of its members. Three United Nations peacekeepers have been wounded at their base in the south. The UN says it doesn't know the origin of the explosion. Israel says it was a Hezbollah rocket. Three U.N.
peacekeepers were also killed there last week. Meanwhile, as the U.S. and Israel attack Iran and Iran retaliates against U.S. allies in the Gulf, Lebanon has not been hit by Iranian fire. But the U.S. embassy in Beirut says Iran may now target U.S. universities in Lebanon. The American University of Beirut has shifted some classes online.
The embassy has also upped its overall warning, telling U.S. citizens to leave Lebanon now. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Beirut.
The Trump administration was warned by the mortgage industry last year not to kill a program that was helping military veterans avoid foreclosure. But the VA killed it anyway. And here's Chris Arnold reports the results show that veterans are losing their homes.
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Chapter 3: How are recent Israeli airstrikes affecting Lebanon?
The three Americans and one Canadian astronaut will do a lunar flyby on the far side of the moon, and they will lose communication with Earth during that time. I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on Consider This, meet the crew of NASA's Artemis II.
We were always going to go back to the moon and go back to stay. Our role is just really answering that call.
They're traveling farther into space than any human before. You can hear their story on Consider This. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.