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is going to hold news conference this hour with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Dan Kane. This comes as President Trump offered eight new reason yesterday about why the U.S. struck Iran. He said that if the U.S. did not attack, there would have been a nuclear war. He's previously insisted the U.S. obliterated Iran's nuclear capabilities.
Trump beer's deepest shiver on reports last week that the U.S. was engaged in indirectly or talks with Iran. Senior administration officials tried to explain in detail why the negotiations with Iran were breaking down. The Pentagon and the White House are holding more briefings.
But five days into this war, I mean, questions remain.
And a big one is timeline.
And what's the end goal? Trump has said that he expects these strikes to last several more weeks.
“But what will define success here for the Trump administration?”
And what does the U.S. want for Iran after these strikes bent? And beer's deepest shiver on reporting. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities say more than 1,000 people have been killed there since the conflict started. It's been difficult to hear from people inside Iran.
The regime restricts internet access. They can't arrest people who speak with foreign media. But in beer's resherlock has been able to speak with one Iranian woman, Shadi. Shadi has asked us to use only her first name for her safety. Um, is it all half valid?
Shadi describes the scene she witnessed while she accompanied her mother to a hospital for cancer treatment.
The past government buildings, military bases and centres for Iran's revolutionary guards
shattered by U.S. and Israeli air strikes. Their lives too are now caught in the anatomy of this war. They wait in line to buy gas or bread. And Shadi says, has seven-year-old niece wakes in the night in fear from the bombs. Shadi wants to see the regime full, but this situation is difficult too.
Every two or three days I make a dessert to her cake, she says, so that I can stay connected to life. Brief Sherlock and Pion use near the border with Iran. The first primaries of this year's midterm elections took place in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas yesterday, and BR's Dominican Montenaro has more.
“Two key senate races are starting to take shape.”
In North Carolina, it's a former Trump Republican National Committee chairman Michael Wattley against former governor Roy Cooper. Cooper is seen as a big get for Democrats, but remember, this is a state that Trump won three times, which may be why Cooper kept his distance from his party referring to himself as someone who would be a "independent senator."
In Texas, James Talarico won the Democratic primary, but he's going to have to wait a little longer to find out who his Republican opponent is. No candidate got 50% in the bitter primary, but between Senator John Corne and State Attorney General Ken Paxton, so the winner will be decided in a May 26 runoff to medical Montenaro and Pionus, Washington.
On Wall Street, down futures are lower. This is NPR. California law protecting the privacy of transgender students has been put on hold, as follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision this week. From member station KQED in San Francisco,
“Desmond Meggley has more on reaction in California to the ruling.”
California's 2024 Safety Act prohibits schools from sharing any information associated with the student's gender transition, like whether they use a new name or gender pronouns. But for now, schools must disclose that with parents upon request, while a lawsuit progresses between a group of parents and teachers and the state. Jorge Reyes Salinas of a quality California, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+
Californians says this Supreme Court decision raises concerns about how the judges will continue to approach trans rights. But it's alarming for the future cases that they will be deciding on, especially for this one, it's alarming because they didn't hear any oral arguments on this case. It wasn't even on their agenda to do this decision.
The High Court's three liberal justices descended. For NPR News, I'm Desmond Meggley in San Francisco. The Justice Department has reversed course, it will now press forward with President Trump's attacks on four large law firms. Trump issued executive orders against the firms last year after they hired people who had investigated him. Lower federal courts had sided with the law firms
and said Trump's executive orders were unconstitutional. The Justice Department had decided to drop its appeals but yesterday the agency changed its mind. It says it will appeal the decisions after all. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News and Washington.
