Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman.
It is the fifth day of the U.S. and Israel's war against Iran.
“And Beers Kary Khan has more from Tel Aviv.”
The air strikes continue in cities throughout Iran. The U.S. military sent com said today that it has obliterated Iran's navy and they say not a single Iranian ship is left in the waterways, off Iran. And joint U.S. and Israeli military strikes are focusing too on Western Iran's Kurdish areas.
Those are long-time anti-aging strongholds and Beers Kary Khan reporting. Iranian authorities had planned to launch three days of official mourning tonight for Supreme Leader Ali Hamanik.
He was killed Saturday in the first wave of attacks against Iran.
But Iran's state media now said that the mourning rituals will be postponed to "another time." Israel is now reopening its air space for Israeli citizens to return home. The U.S. is helping Americans who wish to leave the Middle East.
“And Beers' Daniel Esteran has more from Tel Aviv.”
Iranian missile fire has decreased significantly. Dubai International Airport has resumed limited flight operations. And Israel will gradually open its air space, but only for Israeli stranded abroad to fly home, starting with just one plane landing in Tel Aviv every hour. The aim is to repatriate all Israeli stuck abroad within ten days.
There are no departing flights from Israel, and the U.S. embassy is working on plans to help
U.S. citizens in Israel take charter buses to Egypt to take departing flights from
there. The U.S. is urging its citizens to leave over a dozen countries in the Middle East, amid the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. Daniel Esteran NPR News, Tel Aviv. In the Texas Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate, the Associated Press has called
the race for state-centered James Talleriko, a defeated congresswoman, Jasmine Crocket.
“Primary results were slowed because of confusion in Dallas County, Crocket's home county,”
hundreds of voters were reportedly turned away for showing up at the wrong polling site. There's no winner yet called for the Texas Republican contest for the Senate. It's projected to go to a runoff in late May. In comment Republican Senator John Corneon will face Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the nomination and, as Corneon showed last night, the rivalry between him and Paxton
is bitter. Over the next 12 weeks, Texas Republican primary voters will hear more about my record of delivering conservative victories in the United States Senate and learn more about Ken's indefensible personal behavior in failures in office. Paxton has faced a criminal indictment for securities fraud allegations of adultery
and he survived impeachment by the Texas State House. The Texas State Senate acquitted him. Paxton says Corneon is a weak Republican and he's more closely aligned to President Trump. This is NPR. In North Carolina, a Democratic congressional primary remains too close to call from
Member Station WUNC, Colin Campbell reports. With 99% of the ballots counted so far according to the Associated Press, incumbent Congresswoman Valerie Fusshi was ahead by about 1,200 votes, less than 1% of votes cast. Under state law, provisional votes will be counted in the days ahead, and challenger Nita Alam could be eligible to request a recount.
The race has attracted millions of dollars in ad-spending from outside groups back in each candidate. Backed by independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Alam argued that Fusshi should have taken a stronger approach to opposing immigration enforcement and Israel's war in Gaza. With the Congresswoman says she's been fighting on both those fronts.
The district in the Durham Chapel Hill area is virtually guaranteed to elect a Democrat in November. For NPR news, I'm Colin Campbell. The Senate races are set in North Carolina, and former Governor Roy Cooper won the Democratic primary, he will face the former chair of the Republican National Committee, Michael Wattley,
who won the GOP Senate primary, and incumbent North Carolina Republican Senator Tom Tillis has declined to seek reelection. Billionaire Elon Musk is set to take the witness stand today in a civil trial in California. He's accused of making false statement to shareholders that cratered the stock price of social media platform Twitter.
Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X.
The purchase price was $44 billion.
Shareholders accuse Musk of speaking badly about Twitter in order to make the sale price cheaper. Musk has denied the allegations. is NPR.
