Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Kivone.
Persian Gulf allies of the U.S. are warning of escalating repercussions after Israel's
attack on Iran's South-Pars gas field.
“Qatar says it shares the underwater field and the attack as a threat to both the environment”
and to global energy security. Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says he does not believe the war neuron can entirely eliminate that nation's nuclear program. NPR's Jeff Springfield has more. I.A.E.A. director General Rafael Mariano Grossi says Iran's nuclear program has been heavily
damaged by repeated strikes, but speaking to reporters in Washington, D.C. he said he expects it will survive the current conflict in some form. That's because the program isn't just located at Iran's main nuclear site, he says.
It's also scattered across the university, laboratories, and industrial facilities throughout
the country. With the current war N.C. predicts, we will still have a number of issues that will require a solution.
“Grossi says his agency is ready to aid negotiations, and it's ready to restart nuclear”
inspections when the fighting stops. Jeff Brumfield and P.R. News. A congressional panel heard today that the FBI may be purchasing commercially available data to track American's locations, and P.R.S. Jude Jaffe Block has more. In 2023, the FBI director Chris Ray told Congress the FBI was no longer purchasing commercial
databases, that include location data from Internet advertising. At this hearing, Democratic Senator Ron White and Oregon asked current FBI director Cash Patel if he could also commit to not purchasing American's location data. Patel did not. We do purchase commercially available information that's consistent with the Constitution
and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Biden says data purchases without a warrant are an end run around the Fourth Amendment,
“and that's compounded by the potential to use AI to comb through private information, as”
spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment or clarify what data the FBI is buying. Jude Jaffe Block and P.R. News. Then, as well as President has removed the nation's defense minister under U.S. pressure for reforms, he's been replaced with another general accused of committing human rights violations on law-related reports.
Vladimir Padrino Lopez had been Venezuela's defense minister during his tenure he helped thwart anti-government protests, and ensured that the military supported Maduro. But Padrino Lopez was unable to defend Maduro from a U.S. raid in January, in which the Venezuelan leader was captured. Now he has been replaced by General Gustavo Gonzales, a former director of Venezuelas Intelligence
Police. Gonzales was sanctioned by the Obama administration for leading a crackdown on anti-government protests in which dozens of people were killed. For MPR News on Manuel Reza. This is NPR.
In the state of Georgia, a woman who allegedly used abortion medication has been arrested
on murder and other charges under the state's six-week abortion ban, she is the second
person known to be charged under that state law, which took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Rovey Wade. This may door for member station W. A. B. E. Hasdetail. Soking documents show the South Georgia woman is charged with murder and drug possession. Police in tandem County, Georgia near Jacksonville arrested her in early March after she allegedly
used a medication called Mesa Prostle. It's one of two drugs that can be used to induce abortion, attorneys for the woman who authorities identified as "Alexiam Moore" did not return calls. Georgia bands abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy. Typically, when an ultrasound can detect cardiac activity, the Candon County District Attorney's
office said it doesn't comment on pending cases for NPR News on just made or in Atlanta. Decades after the death of Mexican-American labor and rights leaders Caesar Shavah as several women have told the New York Times, he was responsible for child sexual abuse, assault, and rape. Among these accusers were of the most prominent allies of Shavah's Dolores Werta. She says Shavah's twice forced himself on her. She became pregnant both times.
His accusers say they stayed quiet for decades in part to protect the cause that Shavah's championed. Times interviewed dozens of people including friends and family of Shavah's and former members of the United Farm Workers. I'm Louise Skivone and P.R. News, Washington.
