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voting down an effort today to reign in the Iran War.
The resolution failed on a 47 to 53 vote Congress will take another vote Thursday when the House is expected to take up its own version. President Trump continues to try and explain why the U.S. took action when it did. And Pierce Franco or Donia's reports on the various explanations Trump has given for going to war with Iran.
President Trump again reiterated the long threat posed by the Iranian regime. At a roundtable discussion at the White House, Trump boasted of U.S. military power. He said the U.S. obliterated Iran's nuclear program, but also said Iran was trying to reconstitute the program and was close to having a nuclear weapon. And he said the U.S. needed to act before Iran did.
“And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel and give us a shot”
of that was possible. The White House argues the U.S. didn't make the decision in a vacuum. And that its decision to launch this operation was based on what it calls the cumulative effect of various direct threats, Franco, or Donia's NPR News, the White House. The Republican-led House oversight committee has voted to subpoena attorney to
General Pam Bondi. Bondi would be the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to testify as part of the committee's investigation into Epstein. The attorney general has come under fire for her handling of the Epstein files. Congress ordered the Justice Department to release the material.
But some lawmakers have accused the DOJ of not complying with the law by unnecessarily redacting certain information and not publishing all the files as it should have. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the subpoena.
“Committee Democrats want to subpoena President Trump, whose name appears numerous times in”
the files, but Republicans say they do not believe it's necessary. Sage Miller and PR News. The Justice Department also walking back policy the band law enforcement from bursting
into someone's home without knocking first impures Jacqueline Diaz reports.
The Biden-era band on no knock warns stem from the 2020 killing of Brianna Taylor after police forced entry into her home. Accounts varied as to whether they identified themselves. Taylor's boyfriend shot at the police and they returned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times and killing her.
Following this, the Biden administration established restrictions on when law enforcement can enter a home without knocking first. What the Trump administration is lifting this band, saying the Biden policy hindered law enforcement and endangered officers. The agency says it is, quote, "Bring back a common sense approach to law enforcement.
Jacqueline Diaz and PR News." This is NPR.
Montana Republican Senator Steve Danes is dropping his bid for reelection to a third term.
Danes withdrew his name Wednesday, just minutes before Montana's deadline per candidates to file for the November mid-term election. Shortly before the deadline, Montana's Republican U.S. Attorney Kurt all me filed for teen seat and was quickly endorsed by President Trump. President Trump says he'll make an endorsement soon and the Texas Senate run-off between
incumbent John Corne and State Attorney General Ken Paxton and an a social media post Trump said the candidate who does not get his endorsement should drop out for the good of the party. Corne and Paxton advanced to a run-off this May after Tuesday's primary election neither received the required support to win the nomination outright.
The Texas Biotech company that wants to bring the bully mammoth and other extinct species
“back to life is dismissing criticism from independent scientists and PR's Rob Stine reports.”
Officials at colossal biosciences defended their controversial goals while giving NPR a rare look inside the company's new Dallas laboratory. That's where colossal scientists are analyzing DNA from the bully mammoth and other extinct species in the hopes of resurrecting the animals. That goal has drawn skepticism from many scientists.
They doubt it's possible and worry it might be dangerous if it were. But Ben Lam, colossal co-founder and CEO dismisses those concerns. I'd say it's unethical not to do us, it's immoral not to do. Colossal says scientists could produce a woolly mammoth in about two years. Rob Stine and PR news Dallas.
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