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President Trump is defending recent US air strikes on Iran saying they were necessary
“to stop what he describes as a dangerous and destabilizing regime.”
You see it as well as I do. You see the tremendous progress in being made. The missiles are being wiped out rapidly. The launchers are being wiped out. They're attacking their neighbors.
They're attacking their, in some cases, allies. That's so long ago, allies. And you know, it's really a nation that was at a control.
And there would have used it on us if we let him.
If we waited in the new longer. The administration says Iran's ballistic missile program and naval fleet has been devastated.
“It also says American and Israeli war planes could soon gain total control over Iranian airspace.”
Iran has been carrying out retaliatory missile and drone strikes across parts of the Middle East, targeting allied sites in several Gulf countries. The Trump administration says it's a ranging military and charter flights for American stranded in the Middle East. The White House says it's also updated its information line.
NPR's Tobias Smith reports, thousands of US citizens, are frustrated. The government isn't doing more to help facilitate evacuations. Evelyn Mushi was headed from Chicago to a family reunion in Bali with a connection in Abu Dhabi. That would turn into days of frustration and fear for the 52 year old. I saw in the air missiles and lights and all that, so everyone got on their knees and started praying.
Mushi says she saw flights arranged for other foreign nationals, but she was just getting messages imploring Americans to depart now. But how where do you leave? Where? What do I do? Administration officials say free charter flights will soon begin from the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They say they've been in touch with thousands of stranded Americans, but progress is slow because of airspace closures,
Tobias Smith and PR News. The Senate is preparing to vote on a war power's resolution that would limit President Trump's ability to continue military action against Iran. The measure would require congressional approval for further US involvement in the conflict. President Trump says he will soon make an endorsement in the GOP Texas Senate primary, long-serving incumbent John Cornean is headed for a runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
and PR's Steven Faller reports. The race between Cornean and Paxton will be decided in a May 26 runoff, but a President Trump has his way, the race will effectively be over ASAP. In a true social post, Trump says that the race "must stop now, and that he will soon endorse one of the candidates and ask the other to drop out.
Some of the urgency comes from the results of the Democratic primary, where James Tolerico won his party's nod, but the big tent approached that likely makes the race more competitive. Steven Faller and PR News." This is NPR. A blackout hit the western half of Cuba today, leaving millions of people in Havana and surrounding areas without power.
It's the second major outage to affect the island in the past three months,
with already say that cause of the blackout is not immediately clear.
“A Texas biotech that wants to bring the wooly mammoth and other existing species back to life is dismissing doubts and criticism from independent scientists.”
NPR's Rob Stein has more. 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 wooly mammoth and other existing 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 wooly mammoth in about two years. Rob Stein and PR News Dallas. British Columbia is planning to adopt permanent daylight saving time beginning November 1. The time change will put the Canadian province one hour ahead of Washington State and Oregon.
Officials say the ship serves the well-being of BC residents. They moved ahead and anticipating that neighboring US states may soon follow. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was up 238 points. This is NPR News.
