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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

  • Israel's Defense Minister says the Israeli military has killed another Iranian leader today, the Iranian Intelligence Minister.

  • This comes after Israel killed two top Iranian leaders yesterday.

  • They have ramped up attacks in the last several hours.

  • Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar have intercepted Iranian missiles and drones in recent hours.

  • There were strikes in Israel overnight, including in Tel Aviv.

  • There are deaths reported there.

  • The Iran-backed group Hezbollah in Lebanon launched rockets into Israel in the early morning.

  • The voluntary briefing comes nearly a month ahead of Attorney General Bondi's testimony under a congressional subpoena.

  • Bondi is set to formally appear before the House Oversight Committee on April 17.

  • A bipartisan group of members have demanded Bundy explain why the Justice Department has yet

  • to release all the files under a new law passed last year.

  • In a letter to Bundy, Committee Chairman James Comer said the panel is investigating the possible mismanagement of the government's

  • Epstein probe.

  • Comer said they also want to talk to Bundy about questions still facing the report of Epstein's death

  • by suicide in a New York jail cell in 2019.

  • That and more could also come up in this closed-door briefing.

  • The ongoing partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security means that TSA agents are still not getting paid.

  • There are long lines reported at airport security.

  • More than half of the TSA agents in Houston's airport have called out this week.