Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Raman.
Force suspects have been arrested in connection with a fire overnight in Rotterdam.
It is synagogue.
“The Dutch Justice Ministry says it appears to be an anti-Semitic attack.”
Terry Schultz reports it's the latest of a series of incidents in Europe in the last two weeks. Dutch Justice Minister David von Veil says an investigation is underway in Rotterdam, but he says he believes it's an arson attack. And that anti-Semitism intimidation and violence must not be tolerated.
Speaking to journalists, von Veil said he had no information on whether the incident is connected to the war in Iran, but that anti-Semitism had already been on the rise in the Netherlands due to the conflict in the Middle East. The chairman of the Rotterdam Synagogue, Kristen Hut, calls the fire a targeted attack. He tells local media that while there isn't huge material damage to the building,
which already receives extra security from local authorities, the emotional impact is terrible. For impaired news, I'm Terry Schultz. Two Lebanese academic leaders were targeted and killed by Israeli strikes on Thursday. This according to the Lebanese Ministry of Education, Israel says they were his bullet
“operatives, but this could not be independently verified by NPR.”
NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalci reports from Veil Root. And Israeli strike that hit near Lebanon's public university killed the director of the faculty of sciences, Hussein Bezzi, and a professor of Murtolda Strur. The campus is in the outskirts of Beirut, Southern suburbs, which received evacuation orders last week.
Israeli military said that Strur was a member of Hezbollah, who operated as a weapons manufacturing expert for the Iranian-backed militant group. It said he was the brother of a commander in Hezbollah's aerial unit, who was killed in a previous Israeli military attack. Lebanese president Joseph Aron condemned the bombing, calling it a violation of international
laws. Hadeel Al-Shalci and PR news, Beirut. A federal judge in Washington has stopped the department of justice from moving ahead. On a criminal investigation of the federal reserve concerning "clost overruns" on
“renovations at the reserves DC headquarters.”
The judge said the investigation was part of an improper campaign by the Trump administration to pressure the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates more aggressively as sought by President Trump. And a news conference on Friday, DC's U.S. attorney Janine Piro said she will not back down on the probe, and she is vowing to appeal.
"This judge has put himself at the entrance door to the grand jury slamming that door shut irrespective of the legal process and thus preventing the grand jury from doing the work that it does." Republican Senator Tom Tillis praised the decision calling the criminal investigation in embarrassment.
You were listening to NPR news. Military officials in both South Korea and Japan say North Korea Saturday fired would appear to be a ballistic missile towards the sea of Japan.
The launches North Korea's first-since had fired two ballistic missiles January 27.
It came as South Korea's prime minister was in Washington, and President Trump says he's opening to resuming a dialogue with President Kim Jong-un. President Trump's war with Iran is angering some swing voters who won the administration to focus on the tackling economic pressures forced facing most Americans. NPR observed two online focus group Tuesday night with voters from Michigan, NPR's Ashley
Lopez reports. These focus groups were held by marketing agency Engages and research firms say go, each of the 12 voters who participated supported Joe Biden in 2020 and then Trump in 2024. None of the 12 said they disapprove of what the U.S. is doing in Iran. Brandon, a 37-year-old independent voter, is among them.
Participants agreed to be part of the focus groups on condition they be identified by their first names. Brandon says he's concerned about the economic effects of the war. I feel like we're stretched to thin and the cost of gases gone 20 cents in my neighborhood.
I feel like we always have money for bombs, but no money for infrastructure.
Many of the participants said they would prefer American tax dollars be spent at home, Ashley Lopez and Piano's. Stocks finished the week lower amid concerns about the U.S. is really war against Iran. The Dow, the S&P and the Nasdaq, all were negative.
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