President Trump says there's, quote, practically nothing left to target in Iran as U.S.
and Israeli airstrikes continued on Tehran overnight.
Iran is losing the war in the air, but on the water has strangled traffic in the Strait of Hormuz.
I'm Leila Fadil, that's Steven Skeap, and this is Up First from NPR News.
Gas prices are rising because of the war and President Trump who campaigned on bringing them down is now calling it a very small price to pay.
Is that a price Americans are willing to accept?
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NPR learned the school was walled off from a nearby military base years ago.
Why did the U.S.
cut back on an office that helped to limit civilian casualties?
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One of the hotspots in the war in the Middle East is the Strait of Hormuz.
Yeah.
There, in the last 24 hours, Iran struck several commercial ships.
Images of one ship in the Persian Gulf area show plumes of smoke rising above it.
The important passage for a lot of the world's oil is effectively closed, and Iran, therefore,