"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm no arom.
The US military says it's shot down multiple Iranian drones and missiles aimed at commercial
ships in the straight-op-or-moose.
“Iranian officials say the ships were attempting to pass without Iran's permission.”
The House voted this week to invoke the War Powers Act and response to the war in Iran. It passed with the help of a fewer publicans, MPR's Ron Elving has more." This week, four members of the Republican majority cross the aisle to vote with the Democrats and invoke the War Powers Act on Iran. This is legislation that's been on the books since the wind down from the Vietnam War,
and it requires congressional approval after an overseas deployment has lasted 60 days. We're way past that with the war on Iran, but past efforts to invoke the act of falling short. This time, with the margin of majority down to the fingers of one hand, the defection of four Republicans was enough.
Now we'll see if the Senate follows through."
NPR's Ron Elving reporting "Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth is in Normandy to mark the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day landings." NPR's Eleanor Bearsley reports Higgseth use the anniversary of the ally defeat of Nazi Germany
“to emphasize that Europe must be responsible for its own security.”
At the American cemetery on a bluff above Omaha Beach, Higgseth said it is a strategic necessity for Europe to take the lead in its own security, speaking against a backdrop of more than 9,000 American tombs, Higgseth called on allies like France to seriously face this reality with concrete steps. The U.S. has already pulled 5,000 troops out of Europe, and the Trump administration
has made it clear that U.S. priorities lie elsewhere. The ceremony at the American cemetery at Colville, Sir May, or took place several hours before the International ceremony, which Higgseth skipped, a citizen's association of one Normandy village protested Higgseth's visit, calling the appearance of "a member of America's far-right, the wrong symbol on a day that celebrates allied unity, Eleanor Bearsley and
Pyrnew's Paris." Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the Israeli government to lift a ban on visits by the International Red Cross to Palestinian prisoners, and P.R.'s honest Boba has to
“help the Supreme Court rule this week that boring prison visits by the International”
Committee of the Red Cross, intervened Israeli and international law, UN Human Rights experts have repeatedly concluded that Israel systematically subjects Palestinian prisoners to torture and other abuse. Israel denies allegation of systematic abuse, but the ban on Red Cross visits has prevented indibended assessments.
The prisoners include the prominent Gaza hospital director detained without charge since 2024, a lawyer for Dr. Hassan Abosofia tells NPR that he has now been placed in solitary confinement. Nasser Aouder said, "His client was moved there after he petitioned Israel's High Court to review the detenition.
Israel did not comment on the case, and a small boy and girl in New Zealand's guilty." This is NPR. A DC judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Jazz Music and Chocolate Red. He was sued for a breach of contract after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance at the Kennedy Center to protest the addition of President Trump's name to the venue.
The judge ruled there was no evidence that Red had signed a contract. Axi groups have filed a case against Equatorial Guinea representing African migrants deported there from the US. As Michael Coloki reports, some migrants have now returned to their countries of origin. The complaint filed by rights groups with the African Commission on Human and People's
Rights calls for a suspension on the repatriation of the deported migrants from Equatorial Guinea to their countries of origin, claiming that some had been forcibly returned despite expressing fear of persecution. The Trump administration has previously approached some African countries to accept deportees who as citizens of other nations.
Over the past several months, the US has deported migrants to Equatorial Guinea, is rotini, south Sudan and the number of other countries. Meanwhile, several migrants who had been deported from the US to the Democratic Republic of Congo, L.A.D.C. have returned to their home countries according to Congo's authorities. For imperialism, Michael Coloki and Aero B.
A pair of endangered red pandas from China arrived at the Taipei Zoo today.
In the first animal exchange between China and Taiwan in more than 10 years, in return Taipei
will send white-handed given to Shanghai. The pandas, a three-year-old male and a two-year-old female, will be in quarantine for a month before being unveiled to the public they have not yet been named. I'm Nora Rom, MPR News. This week on the MPR Politics Podcast, catch up with a week's big primary election news.
How things played out with newly-drone district's California and an increasingly competitive Senate race in Iowa. Plus, we unpack the latest redistricting news that may benefit Republicans in the fall. Listen every afternoon to the MPR Politics Podcast. Find us on the MPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
