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Iran is warning the U.S. against a ground invasion, after President Trump's and thousands of U.S. troops to the Middle East.
“The country's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Wagner Galloboff says if it happens, it would”
be met with force. Iran also threatened to target American and Israeli universities in the Middle East as part of its war efforts. This has ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt, met in Islamabad today, trying to re-escalate the war.
Pakistan also says it will hold talks between the U.S. and Iran in the coming days, although earlier, Galloboff dismissed the talks in Pakistan, as a cover. After those U.S. troops arrived in the area." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's widening his country's invasion of southern Lebanon, visiting troops in northern Israel today, Netanyahu says he's creating
what he calls a security buffer zone to prevent his militants from firing rockets into Israel. The Lebanon's government says Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,200 people and displaced
“about a fifth of the country's population.”
If yours Lauren Frayer has more from Beirut.
First Israeli officials said they'd take Lebanese territory up to the Latani River,
10 to 20 miles north of the current border, then they ordered residents out of a zone 10 miles beyond that. Colette Sleem is the principle of a school housing displaced people on the boundary of that zone. The roar of Israeli warplanes interrupted our interview.
Residents are fleeing north and waves, she says, and her shelter is now full. Israel has been striking homes, bridges, highways, and fuel stations, forcing people from homes that in some cases had only just been repaired from the last Israeli invasion in 2024. Lebanon's government says at least 49 people were killed Sunday, including a paramedic,
Lauren Frayer and P.R. News Beirut.
“TSA workers could see their first paychecks in more than a month, as soon as tomorrow, despite”
the partial government shutdown, and P.R.s Eric McDaniel has more. A White House memo directs DHS to move money around to pay 60,000 TSA employees. But the Corfite remains, Democrats and Congress are withholding money from all of DHS, including TSA, in hopes of changing how immigration agents can conduct themselves. Her public and house speaker, Mike Johnson, has so far refused to take up a unanimous Senate
deal that funds all non-immigration functions at DHS as these negotiations continue. Democratic representative Adam Smith said on Fox News Sunday that Johnson is making a mistake. We can have that debate and fund TSA, if Mike Johnson would just let us vote on what every single Senator supported. With Crump in their corner, House Republicans haven't shown any signs of budging.
Eric McDaniel and P.R. News Washington. Meanwhile borders our Tom Holman says ice officers could stay at airports until TSA staffing levels return to normal. They were sent there to assist the TSA amid long lines at the airports around the country. You're listening to NPR News.
Mike Alangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Rafael are considered the three great masters of the high renaissance.
And now for the first time, a retrospective of Rafael's work is in the United States.
It appears Jennifer Venesco has more. Rafael has been called the Prince of Painters. His portraits of Madonna's and other religious figures are known for their harmony and balance. He became an extraordinary, narrative painter, a storyteller who instantly knew how to capture the plot of a story or a scene at the moment of its greatest drama.
That's Carmen Bambac, she's the curator of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He's collected more than 170 of his drawings, paintings, prints, and tapestries from museums and private collections around the world. Many of them here for the first time.
The show will run until the end of June. Jennifer Venesco and PR News, New York. New genetic research shows that the earliest known dog is about 5,000 years older than
her first thought, it dates to around 15,800 years ago.
Researchers found a dog's bones at a rock shelter side in Pinnervasi, Turkey, used by ancient human hunter-gatherers, and scientists say it shows dogs and humans were good pals before the advent of agriculture. The dog descended from the ancient wolf population, separate from modern wolves, was the first animal domesticated by people with goats, sheep, cattle, and cats, coming later.
I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
