>> Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman, a funeral service was held Saturday f...
service member killed in the war in the Middle East.
“35-year-old Captain Cody Quirk of Winter Haven, Florida was among six people killed”
by a drone strike at a command center in Kuwait. His stepmother, Stacy Quirk says he leaves behind a legacy worth celebrating. >> We don't just say goodbye. We say thank you, thank you Cody, for your courage, your heart, your laughter, and for the life you've lived so fully.
>> Mass Sergeant Robert Bunch said Quirk lived a life of courage, commitment, and sacrifice.
>> That level of selfless service is something we can never fully repay, but we can
honor it by remembering his legacy. >> In Cuba, the country's electricity grid is a collapse for the second time in a week, leaving 10 million people without power. As Katie Silver reports from Mexico City, it's the latest in a series of widespread outages as the US oil embargo takes its toll.
“The state-owned union electricer said Cuba's grid had a quote total disconnection on Saturday.”
It also happened this past Monday and earlier this month. The Caribbean island's infrastructure has been crippled after Donald Trump cut off Venezuela and oil shipments to Cuba, and threaten tariffs on any country that it provides fuel. Reports suggest multiple tankers carrying Russian fuel are on route to Cuba.
The first to choose who arrived Monday.
Mexico has also indicated it is trying to find ways to resume selling oil to Cuba after stopping early this year due to US pressure. For NPR News, I'm Katie Silver and Mexico City. >> The partial government shutdown continues after five weeks and that means even longer lines at many of the nation's airports.
NPR's Matt Bloom has a report. >> Major airports issued fresh warnings ahead of the weekend to expect more long lines.
“Atlanta's airport urge travelers to arrive at least three hours early.”
At Hollywood Burbank Airport, Emily Alexis brought canned goods to contribute to a food driver TSA agents who've worked without pay for several weeks.
>> I would like to swim there for them, but you know to have families and everything and
I just don't like what's going on. >> In New Orleans, mass agent callouts this month led to huge lines that stretched into the airports parking garage. Leaders on social media said that staffing remains a fluid situation and wait times may fluctuate from 15 minutes to up to two hours, Matt Bloom and P.R. News.
>> President Trump said this weekend that he will order federal immigration officers to take a role in airport security to help with the delays as early as Monday. More rain is expected this weekend in Hawaii where heavy rains have already caused that state's worst flooding in 20 years. Muddy floodwaters have covered large portions of Oahu's North Shore.
Mudwaters have also lifted houses off their foundations and evacuation order, also remains in place for 5,500 people living downstream from a dam at risk of failing. You're listening to NPR News. Russia and Ukraine traded attacks this weekend. Officials say a Russian drone hit a home in his amperesia, killing two people.
Russian strikes also knocked out power across much of the northern attorney of region. Cranian shelling meanwhile has killed two women in the Russian border region. The attacks occurred just before US accranian talks took place in Miami. Violence by Islamist militant groups, a Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo rose sharply last year and P.R. is a manual Iconwater report.
Researchers from the Institute for Economics and Peace say Nigeria recorded the largest increase globally in terrorism related deaths in 2025, with killings rising by 46% from the previous year. Experts say the surge is down to a long-running security crisis that has seen Islamist militant groups and criminal gangs, launch attacks on communities mostly across Nigeria's North and Central region.
This week 23 people were killed in a suspected suicide attack in May-Dugary, North East Nigeria in one of the worst such attacks in years. Local politicians have warned that Boko Haram and other militant groups are growing in strength in the region. In Congo terrorism related deaths rose by nearly 28% amid rising attacks by the ISIS-ephiliated
Allied Democratic Forces. Immanuel Akinwatu, N. P.R. News, Lagos. Robert Mueller has died as FBI director Mueller transformed the nation's law enforcement agency into a terrorism fighting force following the attacks on September 11th, 2001. Later he became the special counsel in charge of investing in ties between Russia and
President Trump's presidential campaign, Robert Mueller was 81 years old. I'm Dale Wilman, N.P.R. News.
