Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.
The first astronauts to swing by the moon in more than 50 years are now back home.
“Their space caps will splash down to the Pacific Friday evening after they were safe”
for Ryan program manager Howard Hu took a victory lap. This mission has been historic and has demonstrated a new capabilities for a Ryan spacecraft as taken our crew, farther than any crews have ever gone to the moon and pack safely. 252,756 miles, and that is a fantastic feat we got a lot more to do. The four astronauts did not land on the moon, but they did manage to capture photos from
a part of the moon never seen before.
Negotiators from the US and Iran are in Pakistan for talks this weekend that are expected to start on Saturday, but news reports from Iran say the talks will not begin. If Israel does not stop its attacks on Lebanon, Israel increased those attacks on Friday, killing at least 13 Lebanese security people in an air strike in southern Lebanon. According to Iranian media, the head of Iran's forensic medical agency says that more
than 3,000 people have been killed so far in the war. The Iranian red crescent has also released some figures on the numbers of damaged civilian
“facilities, and here's the provides has more from Vaan Turkey.”
The head of Iran's forensic medical agency says the country's death toll in the war over the past six weeks has surpassed 3,000. State media outlets, quote, "A bus, not sure the adorni, as saying that some 40 percent of the bodies are an agentifiable." And this casualty figure differs from what human rights groups have estimated.
They put the number of civilian deaths at somewhere between 1,01700 and recent days, and
they've also estimated that over 6,000 military and revolutionary guard members have been
killed. Additionally, 857 schools, 32 universities, and 338 hospitals were damaged or destroyed by air strikes, according to the Iranian red crescent. Deep Harra's NPR News Vaan Turkey. The federal aviation administration in the Pentagon say they've signed an agreement on the
use of counter-drone laser systems at the southern border.
“As NPR's Jill Rose reports, the deal announced Friday comes after disagreements over”
those systems went public. The FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed a thorough safety assessment of a high-energy counter-drone laser system, and that these systems do not pose "undue risk" to passenger aircraft, unquote. But the FAA was not sure about that back in February.
The agency briefly shut down the airspace around El Paso. After the Pentagon permitted US Customs and Border Protection to use a counter-drone laser system before the FAA had completed its safety review. The FAA later shut down a smaller area in West Texas after a similar incident. In coordinated press releases, the FAA and the Pentagon say they've completed that safety
review after watching demonstrations of the system last month. Joel Rose and PR News Washington. And you're listening to NPR News. Police and San Francisco say they've made an arrest following a Molotov cocktail attack early Friday on the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, official say the attack said an
exterior fence on fire, but there were no injuries. The musician known as Africa Bembata has died. He was 68 years old, a pioneer of hip hop and electronic music Bembata was later accused by several men of having sexually abused them years earlier when they were children. And PR is Isabella Gomez Sarmiento as a report.
Africa Bembata grew up in the South Bronx in New York. He was a teenager when the beginnings of hip hop were emerging in the 1970s, graffiti, break dancing, and DJing. Bembata formed an arts collective known as the Universal Zooloonation. He made a name for himself mixing more traditional elements of funk and soul with punk
rock and electronic music. His 1982 song "Planet Rock" with drum machines since and futuristic vocals changed the course of hip hop history. Leading Bembata to be seen as one of the founding fathers of the genre. In 2016, several men accused Bembata of sexually abusing them as minors.
The musician denied those allegations which spanned back to the 1980s. Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and PR news. The percentage of black players on Major League baseball team rosters this year is 6.8% that's according to the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
It's the first time in the least 20 years that number has gone up to years in a row, it was 6.2%
of 2025 when the annual survey began in 1991 that number was 18%. I'm Dale Wilmond and PR news. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, his entire life took a sharp unexpected and very unpleasant term.
But it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. It's rising stories every week where you get your podcast.
