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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright. NPR has confirmed more than 2,000 U.S. Marines are on their way to the Middle East.

As the U.S. Israeli War with Iran reaches the three-week mark. Israel launched new strikes in and around Iran today.

Overnight Iran hit a key oil refinery in Kuwait. The war is causing friction between the U.S. and Israel.

Rachel Brandenberg from the Israel Policy Forum says she thinks the White House underestimated what was ahead when Israel launched air strikes.

I think the U.S. realized that it won't be as easy as it was in Venezuela to change the regime.

I think President Trump may have been high on his experience of sort of plucking Maduro out of the country and that being the end of the game there.

The war is causing turmoil in the global oil markets. The cost of rent, crude, the international benchmark has risen over the past few hours to $112 a barrel, regular gasoline in the U.S. is averaging $3.91 a gallon.

Israel says it's killed more top officials in Iran, including the spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Iran's Supreme Leader has not been seen publicly, but a statement attributed to him, Val's Revenge, and PR's Kerry Khan reports.

The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard Corps Ali Mohamed Noyni was killed in an overnight Israeli strike on Friday according to Israel's military.

Israeli officials say he was the IRGC's main propagandist.

Just before his killing Noyni, issued a statement denying Israel's Prime Ministers claim that Iran's missile production had been decimated.

Noyni said even during war, Iran was having no problems producing and stockpiling missiles.

It appears he was killed after the statement was issued by state media, Kerry Khan and PR News Tel Aviv.

In reviewing statements from lawsuits against the Trump administration, NPR has found people in Illinois, Oregon, and Minnesota,

who said immigration officers took what appeared to be DNA samples after arresting them, and PR's Meg Anderson reports.

The federal government is allowed to take the DNA of people at arrests.

In fact, a Homeland Security spokesperson told NPR that federal law enforcement is required to collect samples from anyone they arrest.

But Orn Kerr, a law professor at Stanford University, says the fear is, what happens if a federal officer arrests someone for something they're legally free to do, like peacefully protesting?

It turns out the officer was wrong, but the DNA test has been conducted. What then?

Kerr says it's unclear whether or how someone could get those records erased in that scenario.

It's also unclear where the DNA samples of protesters are ending up or how they'll be used.

DHS did not respond to NPR's questions about that. Meg Anderson and PR News.

CBS News Radio will end broadcasting in May and all positions will be eliminated, according to an internal memo.

Earlier this year, when President Trump was threatening to take control of Greenland, Danish soldiers were prepared to blow up the island's airport runways to prevent a U.S. invasion.

That's according to Danish and British media, as NPR's Lauren Friar reports from London.

Denmark, which governs Greenland, sent troops there at the start of the year and apparently armed them with enough explosives to destroy the island's main runways.

There were also given blood bags to use for transfusions in the event people were wounded by combat.

Several European countries also sent troops under cover of a joint military exercise.

But Danish media report the real reason was to prepare the island's defenses for a possible U.S. invasion.

This was back in January when Trump, after capturing Venezuela's president, said the U.S. needed Greenland very badly.

And that he wanted to buy or just take it. His threats caused a rar within NATO because Denmark and the U.S. are both members.

Lauren Friar and PR News, London.

While artist and actor Chuck Norris has died, Norris got attention for his iconic fight scene with Bruce Lee in the way of the dragon in 1972.

He starred in the missing in-action trilogy, The Delta Force and Code of Silence in the 80s. Norris gained a TV following on Walker Texas Ranger.

I ask you a question.

Well, what if we don't tell you? You're going to die either way.

Norris was hospitalized in Hawaii for an undisclosed health emergency. Announcing his death, his family said they'd like to keep the circumstances private.

Chuck Norris was 86. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington.

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