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The Trump administration is extending temporary protected status for those from Lebanon for six months.
“His NPR's Hamini Bustillo reports its the first extension of protections under the current”
administration. According to a 2024 government estimate about 11,000 people in the U.S. are on Lebanon's TPS. TPS provides protection from deportation and ability to get a work permit for people in the U.S.
It's a temporary reprieve for people whose home countries are experiencing a natural disaster, armed conflict, or other significant event.
So far, the Trump administration has terminated TPS from more than half a million people,
including from countries like Afghanistan and Venezuela, several have resulted in lawsuits even leading up to arguments in the Supreme Court. A high court decision is pending for individuals from Syria and Haiti. He metabustillo and PR News Washington. In France, authorities have taken a custody of Phantom Oil tanker belonging to Russia.
NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that French authorities boarded the tanker in the Atlantic
“after the captain refused to comply with orders.”
The French military released footage of soldiers dropping onto the tanker's deck from a helicopter, President Emmanuel Macron confirmed the operation on X, saying it took place on the high seas with the support of several partners, including the UK. He also said, quote, "It's unacceptable for ships to circumvent international sanctions
violate the law of the sea and finance the war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine
for more than four years." Criminland spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced the operation as illegal and called it piracy. This is the latest of several suspected shadow fleet tankers intercepted by France in recent months. The EU says there are some 600 Russian tankers that see evading sanctions and refusing
to fly flags to avoid being stopped. Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris Police in Muscatine, Iowa, say seven people, including the gunmen or dead, in a series of shooting Monday involving a domestic dispute with members of the same family.
“Four people died in the first shooting, which took place midday, later than afternoon police”
found the person they believed was the shooter, where the self-inflicted gunshot wound. He died at the scene. He took his own life while police were talking with him. A short time later, police discovered two additional victims, bringing to seven that total number of people who died including the suspect.
Police chief Anthony Keys held a news conference Monday to update the community. "Apon arrival officers located four victims inside the residence. All four victims had suffered gunshot wounds and were pronounced deceased at scene." The chief said the suspect had a previous criminal record, but did not share additional details, Muscatine, Iowa, is on the Mississippi River, not far from Davenport.
On Wall Street Stacks closed higher Monday, all three indexes finished in positive territory. This is NPR. The State Department is planning to drastically reduce the number of U.S. embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas for people seeking to come to the United States. The nearly 50 U.S. facilities will be cut to 20 so-called hubs in the coming weeks
according to the Associated Press. The move is part of the Trump administration plan to crack down on issuing immigrant and non-immigrant visas to reduce immigration. A California condor has become the first-ivit species to fly freely in Oregon in more than 120 years. That's according to a local restoration program. Roman Batalia, from Jefferson Public
Radio, has more on the bird's 380-mile journey. Condor B9 is a little over two years old, and was released into the wild last year by the Northern California-based Urock tribe as part of their Condor Restoration Program. Urock tribe wildlife department director Tiana Williams-Closin says the condor went on a four-day trip passing through southern Oregon.
My 100 to 200 miles per day is not uncommon for them. She's a young bird, of course,
so the fact that she's done that is particularly incredible.
California condor is nearly when extinct because of lead poisoning and habitat loss, but restoration programs like this one have brought the wild population back up to nearly 400. The Urock tribe is hoping to release more condors this summer. For NPR News, I'm Roman Batalia in Medford, Oregon. The Pentagon is taking another step to restricting news media access.
It's declared the Department of Defense press off as a classified space, borrowing reporters from the area. The Pentagon says that closing the area is "nothing controversial." This is NPR. Support News shows new music, new movies, keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like a full-time
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