Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The House of Representatives approved a temporary funding bill Friday night for the Department
of Homeland Security.
“The vote was along partisan lines, a lack of DHS funding, has caused the current partial”
government shutdown. Early Friday morning, the Senate had passed a bipartisan funding proposal, but House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to put it up to a vote during the House debate. Democrats, James McGovern, a Massachusetts called out Republicans. I want to say to the American people, if you woke up this morning not knowing who
to blame for this shutdown, you will go to bed tonight with no doubt. It is House Republicans and Speaker Johnson. U.S. officials say at least 10 U.S. service members were injured Friday when Iranian missiles hit a military base in Saudi Arabia. The attack hit Prince Sultan Airbase.
The attack also damaged several U.S. refueling plans. Israel says a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted before it reached that country.
It's the first time Yemen has joined in the fighting in the region.
President Trump is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East, as he tries to press
“around to open the straight of four moves to allow passage by trapped oil and gas tankers.”
As NPR's Ayah Batrawi reports, this comes as officials from United Arab Emirates and Qatar met separately with Vice President Fans. The U.A.E. and Qatar host thousands of U.S. troops and their energy facilities have been hit in Iranian counterstrikes in the war. The U.A.E. says a ceasefire with Iran isn't enough.
It's pushing for a deal that addresses Iran's nuclear enrichment. It's drones and missiles and it's control of the straight. The U.A.E. says Emirati Minister Sultan El-Jabber, who heads Abu Dhabi's national oil company Adnoch, met this week with Vance and Senator Lindsey Graham, who backs regime change in Iran.
Qatar says its Prime Minister Muhammad al-Fanim at Vance Friday. Qatar has taken a more conciliatory tone. It says Iran's attacks on its sovereignty are unacceptable, but that the war must end through diplomatic means. Ayah Batrawi and Pair News, Dubai.
“"I California's sheriff, who's running as a Republican for governor, has seized another batch”
of ballots as part of an election fraud probe there. This comes after the state's attorney general petitioned to court to stop the sheriff's investigation. Madison Ahmed, a member station KVCR reports." Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized more than 400 more boxes of ballots this
week. That's according to a lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat. Bonta said Bianco defied his order to halt the investigation by carrying out the latest ballot seizure. Last month Bianco seized 650,000 ballots based on a tip from a local watchdog.
The group claims that more votes were counted the more cast for last year's election to redraw California's congressional map to favor Democrats. Bonta wants a judge to stop Bianco's election probe for a lack of evidence. Bianco did not respond to a request for comment. For NPR News, I'm Madison Ahmed and San Bernardino.
And you're listening to NPR News. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. is not pushing Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia in order to get security guarantees in the cease fire plan. Ukraine's president said this week that the U.S. was doing just that. But Rubio Friday said Volodymyr Zelensky was lying.
Rubio says the Trump administration simply telling Zelensky what Russia is demanding. In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, succeeded Notre Dame pulled off the upset of the day by defeating Vanderbilt a number two seed, 67 to 64 in Fort Worth on Friday. Greg Eckling reports. Notre Dame point guard Hannah Hadalgo was the floor leader.
She scored 31 points and added 11 rebounds, but her defensive play was highlighted by her steals. With 10 in the game, Hadalgo said an NCAA tournament record with 26 and 3 games so far. "I wanted to come out and I told the team, the name of a defensive intensity.
So I came out and just tried to be a person in the ball as I always tried to."
Meanwhile, the two number one seeds playing on Friday stepped toward their respective regional finals with victories. As Yukon downed North Carolina 63 to 42, and UCLA was an 80 to 56 winner over Minnesota. For NPR News, I'm Greg Eckling. Police say they believe Galford Tiger Woods had taken prescription medicine or some other
drug before he was involved in the traffic accident fraughting in Florida. He was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, but a breathalizer test showed no sign of alcohol. A land rover driven by Woods hit another vehicle in his land rover overturned Woods was not injured in that accident.
This is at least the third time which has been involved in a traffic accident. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
