Life from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
The Pentagon is deploying around 2,500 more marines to the Middle East, speaking with reporters
yesterday.
“President Trump said a big challenge remains to reopen the straight-of-poor moves to tanker”
traffic. It's a simple military maneuver. It's relatively safe, but you need a lot of help in the sense that you need ships. It needs volume, and NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so, and others could help us, but, you know, we don't use it.
You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself. He posted on social media yesterday that his administration is thinking about winding down military operations soon.
Turkey says recent Israeli strikes on its neighbor Syria represent a quote "dangerous escalation"
Israel's military said yesterday it had struck a Syrian command center and weapons depot, and PR's family fat has more. Deadly fighting broke out once again this week in southern Syria, between fighters from Syria's government and the Jews, a minority religious group.
“Israel says it is acting to protect the Jews' minority from the Syrian government.”
Israeli military's and the statement "it's struck government sites in Syria's southern suite of province where many Jews live." The strikes add to it is really military campaign in Syria that dates back to the fall of the Assad regime in December, 2024. Turkey said the attacks this week were illegal.
The country has funded militia groups in Syria and the past, including one run by now Syrian President, Ahmed Al-Shara, Emily Fang, and Pyrenees fan Turkey. Ukraine says it has been sharing anti-drone unit technology developed in its ongoing war with Russia. Ukrainian security chief Rustam Umer of visited five Middle Eastern countries in the past
week to talk about countering drone attacks. At social media, he wrote Ukrainian specialists had been sent to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan to instruct them about the 21st century war technology
“they've been employing against Russian attack drones.”
The board of immigration appeals is a part of justice department you may not have heard of its where immigrants or the government can appeal decisions made by immigration judges. And Pyrenees were a home of clergy has details, on the board as shaped by the Trump White House. In 2025, the board issued a record number of President setting the decisions, and Pyrenees found. These are decisions that tell immigration judges and the public how immigration law should
be in charge for them. 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. Heavy rains continue across Hawaii. The system is expected to linger over the islands through the weekend.
Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Jordan has details. The evacuation sirens pierced the usual quiet of the North Shore of the island of Oahu Friday. Communities known for surfing spots and tourist stops have been inundated with fast moving flash floods.
The water has lingered. Houses have been knocked off their foundations, cars swept away, because of earlier storms some have been without electricity for days. One local concern in Earth and Dam dating back to the days of sugar plantations in the early 1900s.
Hawaii Oahu Dam has been teetering on the brink of overflow, threatening some 2,500 residents enforcing the evacuation of the towns of Haleeva and Waalua. For NPR News, I am Bill Dorman in Honolulu. U.S. prosecutors are investigating Colombia's President Gustavo Petro for possible ties to drug traffickers that is according to accounts published by the New York Times and other
media outlets. Already tons of humanitarian aid, including hospital supplies, are expected to be delivered to Cuba this weekend with the country cracking under the weight of the U.S. energy embargo imposed by the Trump administration as the year began, hundreds of delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations started arriving in Cuba midweek as part of a solidarity caravan
several of already arrived by air and others are expected by Flotilla today. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington.
