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Air strikes continue to batter Iran and Iranian missiles targeted Israel and U.S. allies
across the Middle East today.
“The attacks came after President Trump said the U.S. was in talks with Iran to end the war.”
Iran denies any negotiations are taking place, meanwhile thousands more U.S. Marines are on their way to the Gulf. Republican Senate leaders have floated a proposal to end the government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ahead of a break that begins next week. But Democrats and President Trump appear uninterested in the deal.
Meanwhile, travelers experience long wait times as TSA agents are required to work without pain during the shutdown and ICE agents have been deployed to some airports. Keith Jeffries is the former federal security director for TSA at Los Angeles International Airport. The biggest challenge is the security risk that brings to the aviation sector.
The crowds, the angst, the stress, and the shortage of personnel to get them through from point A to point B safely.
“Some 11% of TSA agents didn't show up to work yesterday and at least 458 have quit altogether.”
The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a new congressional map aimed at adding another Republican to Congress, but as St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports the decision isn't the end of the battle over Missouri's new congressional lines. The state's high court ruled 43 that, even though there's no explicit authorization for mid-decade redistricting, there's no explicit prohibition either.
GOP Attorney General Katherine Hanaway says that's a clear win for Republican backers of the redistricting plan. The map can be redrawn mid-decade. Attorney Chuck Hatfield represented redistricting opponents in court.
He noted the new map could be subject to a referendum this year and may never go into
a fact. This was a battle in a bigger war, it was a major battle. Missouri was one of several GOP-led states that redrew their congressional maps to favor Republicans at the behest of President Trump. States like California responded by redrawing their lines to help Democrats.
For MPR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum and St. Louis. Open AI has announced it is discontinued and tooled for making AI video as NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports it was widely used to generate fake videos of real events. Open AI says it's discontinuing its Sora tool, which could generate 10 second videos of virtually anything imaginable.
Like this fake video showing Venezuelan celebrating in the streets after the US capture of Nicolas Maduro.
Those celebrations never happened, neither did scores of fake videos of ice agents.
A tax on Israel, Iran, or countless other so-called news events generated by Sora, experts say even if the app has gone AI video is here to stay and it's making it harder than ever to tell what's real and what is fake. Jeff Brumfield and PR News. This is NPR News.
Democrat Emily Gregory has won a special election for a Florida State House seat, flipping a district that is home to President Trump's estate Marolago, according to the AP, Trump endorsed the Republican John Mayples, the Republican who previously held the seat and resigned to become county clerk won it by 19 percentage points in 2024, Democrats are celebrating the victory as the latest sign voters are turning against Trump and the GOP.
Valero has shut down a refinery and port Arthur Texas after an explosion in fire, as NPR's Julius Simon reports from Houston, the refinery sends oil products to many parts of the world. The Valero refinery handles more than 350,000 barrels a day. It supplies diesel locally to the Gulf Coast, as well as to the Northeast and Midwest via pipeline.
The refineries diesel on gasoline sometimes gets shipped to Europe and Latin America.
“It is an important asset when it comes to balancing the market as a time where supply is”
being impacted by the state of Formusia down. That's Deb Nochowdery had a fuels and refining for S&P Global for North America, Latin America, and Europe. An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing. It's unclear how long the refinery will be offline.
Julius Simon and Pierre News, Houston. Fire fighters in Kentucky rescued a dog that became trapped in a cave 40 feet underground. The Jessman County Fire Department says rescuers use a rope system to lower into the cave. The quickly made contact with the dog, a beagle named Foxy, firefighter, and pup were hoisted out with no injuries.
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