"Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
Iranian-backed Houthi militants and Yemen say they've launched another missile-tort Israel on Saturday.
“They're the first missiles, the Houthis have launched since the start of the war with”
Iran.
The Houthi's attacks open another front in the war that's now moved into its second
month in Piers' Karycon reports." Up until Saturday's missile launch, the Iranian-backed Houthis had stayed out of this war, but Houthi spokesman says attacks will continue until, quote, "the aggression on all resistant front stops." The Yemen-based rebels were active during Israel's war and Gaza firing on cargo ships
in the Red Sea and disrupting global commercial traffic. Iran hit multiple sites around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Saturday. Israel's military says Iran is increasingly using cluster bombs. Designed a detonate at high altitude, the munition disperses multiple smaller bombs that
“are more challenging for Israel's multi-layered air defense system to intercept and can”
cause damage over a wider area, dozens of countries have signed on to a cluster munitions treaty ban, except Iran, Israel, and the U.S.-Karycon and Piers' news, Tel Aviv." In what organizers say was the largest show of participation yet, more than 3,000, no kings, 3.0 rallies were held across the U.S. on Saturday, millions of protesters denounced President Trump's policies, including his crackdown on immigrants.
Ryan Bull of member-station KLCC and Eugene Orgen has more.
On the first two no-Q's rallies were held in Eugene, organizers say they held Saturday
as a neighboring Springfield to connect with a Latino community. Ophelia Santiago was one of the speakers and as a naturalized citizen for Mexico. She says she's heard for many families who have had ICE agents detained and depart relatives regardless of their immigration status.
“"We're here to have a better life for children to work hard for me.”
They're just treating us like we're not human beings. And that hurts." President Trump has defended his immigration crackdown, but critics say it's been brutal, violent, and unchecked. "Fran PR News, I'm Brian Bull, in Springfield, Oregon."
ICE agents have been deployed now for almost a week at some airports to help TSA agents move passengers through security faster, but the partial government shutdown is still causing major delays for some travelers. Lines at the Baltimore Washington International Airport on Saturday took up to two hours to get inside and then as much as three more hours to get through security.
Darren Davis was heading to Atlanta and described what he found. "There's about two or three rows outside, there's about three rows inside, and then there's
another hit in row, or two further inside, just to get to your first gate, a clear and
free check are closed, there was no notification about that, but they are closed." That's Darren Davis, and you're listening to NPR News. Officials in Ukraine say at least five people were killed early Saturday when Russia launched more than 270 drones at targets across the country. Two people were killed in at least 11 others injured in an attack on the city of Odessa,
the attack damaged the maternity hospital as well as a number of private homes. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is deploying a new electronic health record system that will begin rolling out in states throughout the next several months. As Emma George Griffin of Member Station, W.C.M.U. tells us, "Michigan will be the first state to make the switch."
"Healthcare for Veterans has dramatically changed in recent years with expanded coverage through the Pact Act. That's according to Anthony Klohn, the CEO of the Saginaw VA Health Care System." Klohn says physical records can make it challenging to utilize new coverage, to prove exposure to chemicals from burn pits and agent orange.
"There are still a significant number of veterans who may not realize that they've earned this benefit due to some exposure." Klohn says the new electronic record system will help keep records in one easily accessible place, but the initial transition may cause delays. For NPR News, I'm Emma George Griffin in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
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