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The State Department is urging Americans in most parts of the Middle East to take a commercial
flight out as the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran stretches into a fourth evening, in the Oval Office today, President Trump said, "There was no evacuation plan for U.S. citizens overseas because, as he put it, it all happened very quickly." NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports a State Department is making preparations for possible military flights to evacuate U.S. citizens urging them to sign up for notices.
The U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia was closed to the public after it was hit by two Iranian drones, which caused a fire, but no reported injuries.
“The State Department has ordered the departure of non-essential diplomats from many embassies”
in the region, including Lebanon, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, and the United
Arab Emirates. The Assistant Secretary of State for Contler Affairs posted a message on
X-Telling Americans they should leave all those countries and more on commercial flights that includes Israel, where the embassy is telling Americans that it's not in a position to help Americans leave. Officials there are suggesting that Americans crossing to Egypt by land. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. President Trump's decision to go to war against Iran has re-questions among critics
about the risks the conflict could pose to security at home. Homeland Security Secretary Chrissy Nome appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. She addressed security measures being taken ahead of the World Cup. We are revetting some of the individuals in some of the programs that we may have concerns about
“looking at social media, also going through those interviews that are necessary for some of our”
programs that the Biden administration abused and perverted under their time there as well. Nome's testimony follows a mass shooting over the weekend at a Texas bar. That is under investigation as a possible act of terrorism. Today is primary day in a number of states including Texas and the Senate raised several candidates are looking to replace and come at John Corden. Republicans have held the seat for
more than three decades, but the Texas newsrooms blaze Gany says some Democrats are trying to turn the tide, particularly in South Texas districts. Congresswoman Jasmine Crochet in Texas State Representative James Tolerico are campaigning in Houston, a stronghold for Democrats. Avril Corral, a political scientist at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley says the votes from
South Texas are the ones Democrats will really be looking to win in November. If Democrats were sort of to post some numbers that look more like what this region used to look
“like 10 years ago, then I think maybe Republicans would start to think that there's maybe a problem”
on their hands. The Republican side of the ticket features incumbent Senator John Corden, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxon, and Congressman Wesley Hunt. Three strong candidates will surely likely force that race to run off in May. For NPR News, I'm Blaise Gany. You're listening to NPR News.
The House Oversight Committee investigating cases related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has released videos of the Clinton's depositions. Former President Bill Clinton and his wife former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat for separate depositions last week. Both denied having any knowledge of Epstein's crimes.
Mrs. Clinton says she never even recalled meeting the disgrace financier.
Images of his morning's total lunar eclipse are circulating on social media. The event visible to people around the globe turn the moon blood red. There won't be another one like this morning's until late 2028, but there will be a partial lunar eclipse in August of people across the Americas, Europe, Africa and West Asia will be able to view. The origins of humans affinity for alcohol may be visible in our
primate relatives. Here's our opinion. When fruits ripen, they ferment and produce alcohol. For some primates, that smell may be a shortcut to finding sugar and calories. But there wasn't much evidence that Chimps were actually consuming the alcohol. So a team of researchers, including UC Berkeley PhD student Alexei Maro, sampled urine from wild Ugandan Chimps. At least 10 of the animals urine contained a
concentration equivalent in humans to having had one or two drinks. "It's plausible that our ancestral diet may have had similar alcohol just baked into our everyday existence." Perhaps leading to our modern attraction to the stuff, except that today we can produce and consume it at much higher concentrations. That's our annual reporting. It's NPR.
