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House Republicans have rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to reopen the Department of Homeland
“Security prolonging a shutdown that is strained security at U.S. airports.”
They criticize the Senate plan for excluding additional money for immigration enforcement. GOP leaders instead passed a short-term funding bill late Friday. House minority leader, Hockeyam Jeffries, came out against it. Because what House Republicans want to do is to continue to fund Donald Trump's violent extreme mass deportation machine that has resulted in the death of at least three American
citizens. The bill is facing immediate resistance in the Senate where Democrats are rejected similar proposals. President Trump meanwhile has signed an executive order to pay TSA employees who've
been working without a paycheck for more than a month.
Israel says it's stepping up its assault across the border and to Lebanon to fight Hezbollah militants and PR's law and fair reports the invasion has displaced about
“a fifth of the country's population and killed more than 1100 people.”
Israeli officials say they'll take territory up to Lebanon's litany river 10-20 miles north of the Israeli border. But now they've ordered residents out of a zone and other 10 miles beyond that. Thousands more are fleeing, sleeping in a soccer stadium in southern Beirut. Israel's been bombing highways, bridges, homes, and gas stations.
Its military released a video of a top commander surveying troops inside southern Lebanon. Hezbollah released its own video showing what it says is a guided missile hitting in Israeli tank.
Hezbollah's backed by Iran and Israel says it's killed several of Iran's revolutionary
guard members inside Lebanon. Iran's foreign ministry says six Iranian diplomats have been killed here as well. Foreign fryer and PR news Beirut.
“The Trump administration is giving federal agencies more time to change the way they produce”
statistics about race and ethnicity that are used to redraw voting maps and enforce civil rights laws. And PR's Hansi Lowlong reports the changes were approved during the Biden administration. The 2030 census and other future federal forms have been set to ask about race and ethnicity in one question instead of separating the two.
While allowing people to check more than one box, and the boxes include a new one for Hispanic or Latino and another for Middle Eastern or North African, a category the US government would no longer automatically classify as white. Research shows that could allow many people to more accurately report their identities. The White House's Office of Management and Budget is now giving agencies one more year to
release plans about how they're going to adapt their surveys. The move comes after an OMB official signal that Trump administration is considering rolling back these changes to racial and ethnic data. It's one of the moves described in the conservative action plan project 2025 on Zilo Wang and PR news. You're listening to NPR news from Washington.
You McCounty Arizona has prided itself as the place Labour icon says our Chavez was born and died. But now sexual abuse allegations tied to Chavez have caused a debate over whether a local school should still bear his name. So let's go stargazer from member station, K.A. W.C. reports the controversy is exposing deep
divisions within the community. In San Luis, the Gatschen school district is considering renaming two Cessat Chavez facilities, but some community members are pushing back. At a public hearing, Anamaria Guillén said, "Actions be louder than words. You could even say he gave his life for us, but Luis
Ariaola disagrees." "What are we telling our girls? People who have been abused." The district governing board said it may take action at a later date. But for San Luis, Chavez's legacy is deeply personal, and now deeply contested. For NPR news, I'm Cisco Stargazer in San Luis, Arizona.
Progoffered Tiger Woods is facing DUI charges after a roll-over crash in Florida that already say a breath test showed no alcohol, but they suspect drugs or medication. Martin County Sheriff John Vooden-Seek says Woods cooperated with the breathalizer but refused a urine test. "We had a DRE experts evaluating him and they believed from on scene that he was not impaired
on alcohol, but they believed it was some type of medication or drug. And again at the jail, he cooperated with the urine, or I'm sorry, he cooperated with the breathalizer, and then the urine he wanted no part of." No injuries were reported. This is NPR News.
