Trump Deploys 2,000 Troops to Iran as War Approaches One Month

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🗓️ 26 March 2026

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The United States and Israel's war on Iran is going on a month now, with Iran reportedly dismissing President Trump's ceasefire plan and offering a proposal of their own. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is ordering 2,000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. In total, an estimated 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed throughout the region in what the Pentagon is calling "Operation Epic Fury." And lawmakers are facing intense pressure to fund the Department of Homeland Security as travel chaos spreads across the country, with the Senate appearing to be closing in on a deal that would fund parts of DHS like TSA, but not ICE, which has been at the core of the dispute. Now, airlines are turning up the heat on lawmakers. Delta Airlines announced Wednesday that it will suspend special accommodations for members of Congress, including airport escorts and priority travel support. In business, Amazon-backed Zoox is quadrupling its autonomous vehicle service area in San Francisco and preparing for launches in Austin and Miami, and plus-size fashion retailer Torrid is shuttering a significant portion of its physical locations as it shifts focus toward digital sales. Read more at https://LATimes.com.

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0:00.0	This is an L.A. Times Studios podcast. And so that's a good to get a little bit of a great and it's a very important.
0:22.6	And we're going to be a lot of people that's
0:25.6	a much of the future of the people.
0:28.6	And it's a little bit more and the world
0:29.6	and just a little bit of the same.
0:33.6	And the time you can't get a little,
0:35.6	the same time, and the other,
0:36.6	and the other than you know, and the other than you know, Inside Iran, civilians seek shelter from airstrikes across all 31 provinces of the country.
0:53.0	According to Iranian government figures, some 1,400 civilians have been killed and more than 20,000 injured.
1:00.0	There is a growing pattern of strikes affecting residential areas, civilian infrastructure,
1:05.0	and other sites that are protected under international law.
1:09.0	Housing, hospitals, schools, cultural sites, transport networks,
1:12.6	and energy infrastructure have all been hit. Well, I don't want to say it. Well, I don't want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, they're negotiating a deal.
1:51.6	I guess they're getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it. About two and a half hour so far and it looks like probably another hour or so to go.
2:32.5	Yeah.
2:33.5	It's insane. Zooks is stepping up its game in the Robotaxi race.
3:05.6	Caroline Petro Cohen reports the Amazon-backed company says it will quadruple its service area
3:11.3	in San Francisco, expanding into neighborhoods including Chinatown, North Beach, the Marina
3:16.5	District, and Pacific Heights.
3:18.5	The Bay Area Company is also expanding in Las Vegas and preparing to launch in Austin and Miami. Earlier this month, Zooks announced a partnership with Uber that will make its vehicles available in the app,
3:30.0	launching in Las Vegas this summer and in LA by the middle of next year.
3:34.0	Founded in 2014 and bought by Amazon for $1.3 billion,
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