Live from NPR News in Washington, on Corva Coleman, the military says it shot...
drones around the Strait of Hormuz and a launch site for those drones.
“Iran says it then targeted the U.S. base where the strikes came from, but it didn't”
identify which one. The director general, the World Health Organization, is headed for Democratic Republic of the Congo. You'll see the response to the Ebola outbreak. There are some 220 suspected Ebola deaths and more than 1,000 suspected cases.
Reporter Emmett Livingstone is in DRC's capital, Kinshasa, where he says the health system is under enormous strain. The immediate priorities are containing the virus, and that requires PPE, a ramping up of testing capacity, isolation units, and tracing known contacts of suspected Ebola cases. There are major gaps in diagnostics, delays of days in confirming cases who are showing
symptoms, which is slowing a response. Emmett Livingstone reporting The Homeland Security Department is expanding its capacity to scan the eyes of people that it detains and wants to scan their irises. That's because the iris is like a fingerprint with patterns unique to each person, and beer's Meg Anderson reports.
“DHS awarded a $25 million contract last week to a company called BI2 Technologies, which”
did not respond to NPR's request for comment. The agency plans to deploy hundreds of the company's iris scanners to eyes officers across the country. DHS has an arsenal of tech tools now, thanks to an influx of federal funding, Cooper Quentin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation says these tools broaden the agency's surveillance
web. This starts doing iris scanning of everybody they detain, and then that's in their database and use that further signals. Yeah, absolutely. DHS declined an interview, but told NPR an statement that it is using quote "every tool
available" in its efforts to detain more people who are in the country illegally. Meg Anderson and PR News The state of Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year's midterm elections. It's appealing a lower court ruling finding the plan intentionally discriminates against black people.
From Troy Public Radio, Austin Toy reports. A panel of federal judges on Tuesday rejected the effort, calling it a "intentional decision to dilute minority votes." Now, the Republican-led state is asking the highest court in the land to intervene. In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama had likely violated the Voting Rights Act
with its map and needed to draw a second district with the majority of black voters.
That ruling eventually led to the election of a second black Democrat from the state. For NPR News, I'm Austin Toy in Montgomery, Alabama. You're listening to NPR News. The Pentagon says it struck another alleged drug vote in the Eastern Pacific. It says it killed two alleged drug traffickers.
Trump administration does not offer evidence linking the vote strikes or the people to drug trafficking. A first of its kind, cash-aid program for pregnant women in Michigan has led to healthier babies at birth. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports a new study finds a significant drop in admissions to the
neonatal intensive care unit. Two years ago, Flint Michigan started providing all women $1,500 during pregnancy and 500
a month for a baby's first year.
The aim was to tackle a peak time for poverty when many women cut back on work even as they face higher costs. The program has since expanded to 42 communities in the state. Now a new study in the Lancet Public Health finds far fewer babies in Flint born prematurely or with low birth weight.
That means saving millions in healthcare spending. Their research has found those mothers faced fewer evictions, less hunger, and had better mental health. The pediatrician behind the program says there will also be long-term benefits since the
“first year of a child's life is crucial for brain development.”
Jennifer Ludden, in PR News. The Associated Press and other news organizations report that the FBI has arrested a former CIA official at his home in Virginia. He is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars from the federal government, they're worth more than $40 million.
On Core of a Coleman, NPR News in Washington. From Spider-Man to a new Steven Spielberg movie, we know that TV and movies you'll want to watch this summer. I'm excited about this film. I just know suspense, intrigue, aliens, and I'm like, all right, Spielberg, I'm in.
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