Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Skivoni.
The Lebanese health ministry says the Israeli military directly targeted three ambulance
“teams in consecutive attacks today, killing three paramedics.”
The ministry says at least 87 health workers have been killed in this current invasion, and PR's Jawad Raskala has more. While the camp footage shows paramedics in uniform in clearly marked ambulances and with no visible weapons, and captures the last strike. The ministry says that an ambulance team was hit while rescuing people from an earlier
strike. A subsequent ambulance that responded was also targeted.
In a third attempt, two ambulances from different services were dispatched, and also
got hit. The Israeli military did not respond to our request for comment. Hamad Sleiman, the head of operations of the last ambulance service hit, says they were operating in a civilian area, not in an area he called the Red Zone. He says he survived and is really double-tap in 2024, but this is the first time he's heard
if a quadruple tap. Jawad Raskala and PR News baited.
“The GOP controlled Senate is once again blocked a democratic lead effort to limit President”
Trump's war powers in Iran, but as NPR's Claudia Grisallis reports, Democrats say they'll try again. Democrats are demanding defense Secretary Pete Higgs-Seth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
testify publicly on the conflict, your Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Not a single hearing, not a single discussion, well, I'm going to tell my Republican colleagues. They're not going to be able to escape continuing to vote on this. Only Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul has defected joint Democrats who have argued for an end to the costly and unpopular war. So far, most Republicans have defended Trump, but more are speaking out, saying publicly
that support could run out when the war hits a 60 day mark at the end of this month. The Chief of the U.S. Forest Service is defending a controversial downsizing plan and a headquarters move from Washington, D.C. to Utah. Administration officials, meanwhile, promise they are going to be ready for the summer wildfire season and PR's Kirk Siglet reports.
Moving the Forest Service headquarters out of D.C. is part of a broader reorganization
that includes consolidating or closing regional offices and research stations in the West.
Speaking on NPR and WAMUs 1A, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said none of this will occur until after the summer wildfire season, which he says the agency has prepared for. In terms of the hiring that we're doing, the actions that we're taking, and we will be protecting communities, and we will be as resource to not raise more resource for protecting communities that we have in the past.
Schultz also says relocating to Utah will put Forest Managers closer to Rangers and locals most affected by federal decisions insisting it's not an attempt to sell or transfer federal public land ownership to states. Kirk Siglet and PR News, Boisey. This is NPR News in Washington.
New York Utility Con Edison says it will support legislation making it easier for people to use plug-in or balcony solar panels. And PR's Jeff Brady reports not all utilities and all states like the idea. plug-in solar panels are installed in minutes and plug-in to a regular outlet where they start shaving at least some money off a utility bill right away.
More than 30 state legislatures had bills introduced this year to speed plug-in solar adoption, but utilities opposed them, citing safety and grid reliability concerns. Con Edison's Brit, Reichsborn, Shen Roode, says her company believes those concerns have been addressed. We are excited about this technology, and we do think it's a really good opportunity
for New Yorkers who are living in apartments, and otherwise couldn't install solar energy to be able to have access to that technology. lawmakers have passed similar bills in Utah, Maine, and Virginia, Jeff Brady, and PR News. ticket master considered to be the world's largest ticket seller for live advances been found by a New York jury to be part of an anti-competitive monopoly along with concert giant
live nation. ticket master is a subsidiary of live nation. The civil case against the businesses was initiated by the federal government then picked up by several states, as personified in the 2022 Taylor Swift concert tour customers have found the tickets wildly expensive, and for those unable to score them extremely frustrating
despite hours of efforts. Live nation promises to appeal this case, a lawyer for the state says this has been a great day for anti-trust law. I'm Luis Quivone and PR News, Washington. If you've all been there, maybe somebody tells you too much about the twist ending of
a movie, or they tell you who dies at the end, in other words, you've run into a spoiler.
“How should you handle spoilers and what even counts as a spoiler?”
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