Iran War Death Toll Climbs, Judge Blocks Powell Subpoenas, New Medical Guidance and more

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🗓️ 13 March 2026

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We start with the rising death toll on civilian and military personnel in the war, as protests against the US and Israel take place across Iran. A federal judge has thrown a wrench into the Justice Department’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. New details are emerging about the man who plowed into a Michigan synagogue. A deadly shooting at a Virginia university is now being investigated as terrorism. Plus, we tell you why millions more people may be advised to take cholesterol-lowering medication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, from CNN, I'm AfomaDK, with the five things you need to know for Friday, March 13th.
0:07.7	CNN estimates that more than 2,000 people, including civilians and military personnel,
0:12.7	have been killed as a result of the war the U.S. and Israel initiated with Iran.
0:17.0	In a phone interview on Fox News Radio, President Donald Trump offered his latest idea on when the war might come to an end.
0:23.8	When it's over, and I don't think it's going to be long, when it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast. When are you going to know when it's over? When I feel it. Okay. I feel it in my bones. Trump also said he believes Iran's new supreme leader is, quote,
0:37.6	Damaged, but probably alive, after news that he was injured at the start of the war.
0:42.3	This, as Iranian state media says a strike killed at least one person in Tehran,
0:46.3	where explosions were reported near a rally marking Al-Quds day, held in support of Palestinians.
0:52.3	Strikes came shortly after Israel issued evacuation orders for nearby areas.
0:57.0	Huge crowds gathered in cities across Iran after the new Supreme Leader issued his first statement,
1:03.0	which was read on state television.
1:06.0	More news coming up, including updates on two attacks that rattled American communities yesterday.
1:15.6	A federal judge in Washington just made it harder for the Department of Justice to investigate Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
1:21.6	over his congressional testimony about a renovation project at Fed headquarters.
1:26.6	Powell said in a video message after the subpoenas were sent to the Federal Reserve in January
1:31.3	that the investigation stemmed from his refusal to lower interest rates after President Trump pressured him to do so.
1:37.3	U.S. District Judge James Bolesberg quashed the subpoenas, writing that the government produced,
1:42.3	essentially zero evidence that Powell
1:44.6	committed a crime. U.S. attorney Janine Piro says the ruling is wrong and that the DOJ would
1:49.7	appeal. One of the age old tools that all prosecutors have to investigate any crime, including
1:58.3	cost overruns, is a grand jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington,
2:05.6	an activist judge has taken that tool away from us. He has neutered the grand jury's ability
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