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Israel says it has struck a major petrochemical facility in Iran, the latest in a wave of

new attacks that killed more than 25 people.

Iran has vowed to continue striking back at Israel and U.S. allies in the region.

Four people were killed in Israel from an Iranian missile.

The escalation in strikes comes as President Trump's deadline looms to bomb Iran's bridges

and power plants.

If Iran does not allow ships to pass through the Strait of Four Moos, here's in Pierce

Kariqan.

Defense Minister Israel Kat says Israeli strikes on major petrochemical sites have taken

out of production 85 percent of Iran's major revenue generating facilities.

Israel also says it killed a military leader and the intelligence chief of the Iranian Revolutionary

Guard Corps.

Iran has confirmed that.

The intelligence chief had only recently been appointed.

The previous intelligence chief and his deputy were also killed by Israel.

Defense Minister Kat said Israel would continue to quote hunt down Iran's leaders.

Iran has sent a barrage of missiles towards Israel and Gulf States Monday.

Iran's military spokesman said if attacks on civilian targets continue, retaliation

will be quote carried out much more crushingly and extensively.

Kariqan and P.R. News Tel Aviv.

Vice President J.D. Vance is on his way to Hungary ahead of Sunday's parliamentary election.

It was important to see my good friend Victor and we'll talk about any number of things related

to the US-Hungry relationship.

Obviously I'm sure Europe and Ukraine and all the other stuff will figure out pretty

prominently.

Vance briefly speaking to reporters as he boarded a plane in Maryland referring to Hungary's

Prime Minister Victor Orban.

Orban has been in power for 16 years, but he is facing a tough re-election bid.

It most independent polls.

Orban trails his main opposition challenger.

Orban was the first European leader to endorse President Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Trump returned the favor last month.

The federal agency that runs Medicare told health insurance companies Monday they would

get a 2.5% rate increase from Medicare Advantage plans in 2027.

And P.R. Selina Simmons-Duffin reports on the reversal from a plan to keep the rate

flat.

A 2.5% increase for companies that run private Medicare Advantage plans is a smaller

bump than the last few years, but it's much more than what the Center for Medicare and

Medicaid Services proposed in January, 0.09%.

That sent health insurance stocks down.

Companies lobbied for a bigger increase pointing to rising health costs.

The lobbying and market reaction seemed to have made an impact.

Their official Chris Clomp spoke to reporters on Monday.

We are balancing our stewardship, both in near-term stability and larger sustainability

while trying to send the right signals to the market.

The Trump administration has been critical of Medicare Advantage because it costs taxpayers

more per enrollee than traditional Medicare.

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The British government is under pressure to bar Kanye West from entering the country.

He was named as the headliner for London's wireless festival of rap and hip-hop music that

set for July.

Now known as Yeh, he has drawn widespread condemnation in recent years for anti-Semitic remarks.

Notably, sponsors Pepsi and Diageau have withdrawn from the festival its organizer is standing

by Yeh.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the physical world.

Now a new rule will require public institutions to do the same for the digital world as MPR's

Genocumeta reports.

Miranda Lacey and Harold Rogers have been friends since undergrad, where as blind students

they had a positive experience with their education.

They went to grad school with that same expectation, but instead faced major challenges getting

learning materials that worked with their assistive technology.

We already fight to be in the room every day of our lives.

And then we go into a graduate program where we have to fight five times as hard as it's

not acceptable.

The ADA has always required web accessibility.

It just lacked specific technical standards, which made it hard to hold institutions responsible.

But that's about to change.

On April 24th, large public institutions, including universities, will be required by a regulation

in the ADA to create digital materials excessively from the get-go.

Genocumeta, and beer news.

Ice has ramped up immigration operations across the country, but American citizens and

legal residents have increasingly found themselves targeted.

Their message was not subtle, right?

They were saying we see you, we can get to you whenever we want to.

And it did scare me.

While Americans pushing back on ice are getting caught up in a web of surveillance.

The Sunday story from the up first podcast, listen now on the MPR app.