"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
It's a day of mourning across Lebanon for the more than 250 people killed yesterday,
“and Israel's largest wave of attacks in the war.”
Israel says it was targeting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants, but they also hit areas
of Central Bay Route, where some 1 million Lebanese displaced in this war, fled to for safety.
Now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants talks to start, and appears as "Iove of Troy" has more. Israel's Prime Minister today said he instructed his cabinet to open direct negotiations with Lebanon's government about disarming Hezbollah. But even as he did this, more Israeli bombs were dropping on southern Lebanon today after
Hezbollah, which held its fire yesterday, shot rockets at Israel today. And here is "Iove of Troy." The fragile two-week truce between the U.S. and Iran continues and representatives from the two countries are scheduled to meet Saturday for peace talks in Pakistan.
“Israel has secretly approved the establishment of 34 new Jewish settlements in the occupied”
West Bank.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the move in land, Palestinian, and seek for a future
state. The U.S. State Department didn't have an immediate comment as NPR's Daniel Estron reports. The Israeli security cabinet made the decision last week at the height of the Iran war, and it was kept confidential until Israeli media reported it today with an Iran ceasefire in place.
A person not authorized to speak publicly, but he was briefed on the decision confirmed it to NPR and said it was kept classified until now to avoid pressure from the U.S. on Israel's settlement activity during the Iran war. Before the current Israeli government took office, Israel had only approved six new official settlements over the span of a decade.
“This current Israeli government has approved a total of 100 new West Bank settlements.”
There's been a wave of deadly Israeli violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, including one Palestinian killed on Wednesday. Daniel Estron NPR News, Tel Aviv. There were more deaths in immigration detention this fiscal year than in the last two decades. 27 people have died in ice custody just since October, according to data reviewed by NPR from
ice and the American Immigration Rights Center. Imperial Serial Martinez Beltron has more. The latest death occurred last week at the Miami Correctional Center in Indiana, a Vietnamese man was found on responsive, according to the Department of Homeland Security. One of the facilities with numerous deaths is camp east Montana in El Paso, Texas.
Out of three deaths, one was ruled a homicide by local authorities, the H.S. ruled another death there, a suicide. At the time, a company specialized in supply chain management was running the facility.
A position logistics had never run a center before, but it secured a $1.3 billion contract,
the H.S. cancelled the contract last month. Sergio Martinez Beltron NPR News Austin, Texas. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. There'll be a new host for the Tony Awards Broadway's highest honors on June 7th, Pink, the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, Jeff Ludden, he's more.
Every year, the Tony's select hosts with Broadway credentials, Hugh Jack Menneal, Patrick Harris, Cynthia Arrivo, but while Pink has never performed on Broadway, a couple of her songs are currently being sung in and Juliette and the Tony award-winning musical Mulal Rouge. The recording artist who's had 15 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 is known for her theatrical concerts and videos, as well as her love for Broadway.
Producers hope she'll bring new viewers to the Tony telecast, which will be broadcast live from radio city musical on CBS and Paramount Plus. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London, in New York. NASA's Artemis II lunar mission crew is getting ready to return home to Earth tomorrow, finishing a 10-day flight that included a trip to the far side of the moon.
In the way back, the crew's been conducting experiments, including studying the solar corona, the sun's outermost atmosphere, as it glows around the moon during a lunar eclipse. Their trip broke the human space-flight distance record, topping the mark set by NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission that took place in April of 1970. On Wall Street that I was up 292 points, the NASDAQ up 146.
I'm Jeanine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington.
