Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, the US and Israel continue...
sites in Iran and Iran continues to fire back at Israel and neighboring countries.
“The reports of explosions in Gulf states such as Qatar and Bahrain, meanwhile officials”
in Azerbaijan say Iranian drone struck their country, entering two people.
Dury Baskar and reports from Istanbul, it's the first time Azerbaijan has been hit.
The drone struck an airport in the region of Nathchivan, around noon, local time on Thursday. The airport sits about six miles from the Iranian border. In Azerbaijan's landlocked autonomous region. In a statement, Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said a drone crashed into a terminal building, and that another crashed next to a school nearby.
The Ministry condemned the attack and demanded that Iran provide an explanation, saying that Azerbaijan reserves the right to take appropriate retaliatory measures. Friendship news, I'm Dury Baskar. Natural gas prices continue to rise in Europe and Asia as the war with Iran continues to affect energy infrastructure, and there's Julia Simon reports that infrastructure includes the largest
“liquefied natural gas terminal in the world.”
To make liquefied natural gas, companies cool natural gas, so it becomes liquid, then
transport it around the world on ships. Natural gas is eventually used for electricity, heating, making plastics, a fifth of liquefied natural gas or LNG was supplied by kothad, but Iranian drone strikes hit kothad energy's LNG facility earlier this week, now the company shut down production and declared false measure.
A legal term, relieving them from contractual obligations, markets in Asia and Europe won't be getting that kothadity LNG for weeks, if not months. Julia Simon and Pyreneus. And the House of Representatives is scheduled to take up a vote today on limiting President Trump's war powers in Iran, a similar vote failed yesterday in the Senate, mostly along
party lines.
The Republican-led House oversight committee has voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General
Pam Bondi, while makers and both parties wanted to testify in their investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and PR Sage Miller has more. 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 requests for comment on the Sabina.
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. Andrew listening to NPR News from Washington. The family of a Florida man who died by suicide last year is suing Big Tech Company Google.
The suit alleges Google's AI chat bond Gemini convinced the 36-year-old man to try to carry out a mass casualty attack and then take his life. The father of Jonathan Guevallas filed a lawsuit in California. Google says it has designed its chat bond against encouraging real-world violence and against self-harm.
Google is a financial supporter of NPR. Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to be back in a San Francisco courtroom today for a civil trial, former investors of the social media platform Twitter accuse him of fraudulently scheming to depress Twitter's stock price as he moved to buy it in 2022.
“Remember, station KQED, Sarah Hoceney, reports.”
On the stand Wednesday, Musk downplayed any potential impact of public statements he made that some investors say inspired them to prematurely sell their stock. And one tweet Musk said the deal was temporarily on hold. In others, he criticized Twitter's analysis of spam bots. The plaintiff's argue he was motivated by a dip in Tesla's worth.
Money he intended to use to buy Twitter. Musk said his tweets were simply about speaking his mind, not swaying stock prices, adding that those investors who held on to their shares did well in the end. For MPR News, I'm Sarah Hoceney. Voters of cast ballots today, national elections in the Asian nation of Nepal.
This comes after last September's anti-government uprising led by younger Nepalese. I'm Core of Accommon, NPR News.
