"Live from NPR news, I'm Dale Wilman.
As bombing continues in Iran, President Trump seems to be sending mixed signals about how
long the fighting will continue.
“He posted on social media Friday that he's considering winding down the fighting, but at”
the same time, the military is deploying more ships along with another 2,500 Marines to the region. And as the war continues, and Pierre's Domenico Montenero says, Trump is also struggling to find allies to support the war efforts. This is a president who really believes in domination, not collaboration.
And it turns out that talking badly about allies over a long period of time, not making a moral case before getting into the Iran war, and not having leverage might mean that people aren't going to go along with what you want. I mean, tariffs are really a big factor here.
You know, he's been threatening tariffs since the beginning of his second term in office.
But those threats don't carry the same weight since the Supreme Court made it harder for him to use them whenever and however he wants. That's MPR's Domenico Montenero with our story.
“The Republican election bill now being considered by Congress doesn't look likely to pass,”
but as MPR's Miles Parks reports, Republican-controlled states are passing similar legislation at the state level. Republican lawmakers have worried about non-citizen voting for years. But the issue is taken on new urgency, with President Trump's claims ahead of the 2024 election that non-citizens would vote in mass to influence that race.
There's no evidence that happened or has ever happened in American elections for that matter, but states are still passing new restrictions to protect against the possibility. Bills with new voting requirements have now passed or are about to pass in Florida, South Dakota, and Utah, and similar laws passed in recent years in Louisiana, New Hampshire, and Wyoming, according to the Voting Rights Lab, which tracks election policy.
Miles Parks and PR News, Washington. The Board of Immigration Appeals is a part of the Justice Department you may not have heard of. It's where immigrants, or the government, can appeal decisions made by immigration judges.
“As MPR's Raoul Mukherjee reports, the Trump administration has reshaped this board to advance”
its immigration agenda. And 2025, the Board issued a record number of President setting decisions and PR found. These are decisions that tell immigration judges and the public how immigration laws should be in charge for that. The Board issued 70 decisions in one year. That's nearly as many as there were under all four years of former President Joe Biden.
Only two of these decisions sided with the immigrant in the case. Immigration lawyers tracking these cases, say these decisions, have made easier for the Trump
administration to deport people to third countries, as enforce the policy that keeps immigrants
in detention. The Justice Department says the Board is now recommitted to following the law and fulfilling its core mission, Rahul Mukherjee and PR News. Wall Street dropped across the board on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average was down by one percent.
The Nasdaq closed down two percent, the S&P 500 down 100 points. This is NPR News. The Trump administration was blocked Friday from enforcing a policy that limits news reporters access to the Pentagon. In his ruling U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled that the policy illegally restricts
the press credentials of reporters who refused to follow the news rules. The Pentagon official says it's pursuing an immediate appeal. Marshall Arts expert in action star Chuck Norris has died at the age of 86, Steve Futterman reports. Norris's path to Hollywood star them began as a Marshall Arts instructor.
Among his clients and acquaintances were big name stars, none bigger than Bruce Lee, who put Norris in his 1972 film The Way of the Dragon and featured him in the legendary fight scene between the two. By the 1980s with roles in the Delta Force and missing an action Norris was himself a star. Reaction to his death has come from around the world, including a number of his fellow action
film performers, so Vester Stallone described him as all-American in every way. And Jean-Claude Van Dam, who appeared with Norris in the expendables two, said the two new each other for decades, he called him a friend. For MPR news, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. More than 5,500 people living north of Honolulu are being ordered to leave their homes
because of heavy rains in the area. Officials say a 120-year-old dam could fail because of heavy flooding. Emergency sirens also blared along Oahu's famed North Shore were rising waters or damaging homes and vehicles. The National Weather Service says most of the state is currently under a flood watch.
I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
