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"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

on military targets in Iran in a statement posted on telegram tonight. This, after Iran

fired ballistic missiles at Israel today, the first such attacks since the ceasefire was

declared two months ago. And here's Greg Migri, he's more." Israel said the Iranian missiles were directed at northern Israel, where warning sirens rang out on Sunday evening. The Israeli military set in a statement on Acts that it shot down in coming missiles. But it added that it had identified additional launches targeting Israel. A run-worned earlier, it might act due to the ongoing fighting between

Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group that's closely allied with Iran. Hezbollah fired on northern Israel on Sunday morning, according to Israel. Several hours later, Israel

carried out air strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Greg

Migri MPR News Tel Aviv. "A standoff has been going on for nearly two weeks, sparking occasional clashes between protesters and law enforcement agencies at a nice detention center

in New York, New Jersey, continues. Bruce Convicer has more."

Demonstrations broke out at the Delaney Hall facility late last month after detainees announced the hunger strike to protest conditions inside the prison. Within days US Senator Andy Kim was given limited access to the facility. He founded detainees complaints to be credible. Kim was back at the detention center on Saturday, but was denied entry. "This time was different, because this time ICE refused to let me talk to any detainees.

They restricted my ability to do my job." Congress has oversight authority over such facilities. All told doesn't of people have been arrested, a handful have been taken to hospitals, and three separate law enforcement agencies have failed to calm the situation. And New Jersey is suing the prison's management demanding access to the facility. For NPR News, I'm Bruce Convicer and Greenbrook, New Jersey."

President Trump says acting director of national intelligence, federal housing, and finance agency chief Bill Pulti, isn't his permanent choice for DNI. Both Republicans and Democrats push back on the nomination, Pulti has no background in intelligence work, but will now oversee the country's 18 intelligence agencies. Senator Mark Warner is Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He says he's concerned about what Pulti may do.

"What he has shown is a complete loyalty to do whatever Donald Trump wants, compromising private information about mortgages. That means he should get promoted to have the keys to the 18 intelligence agencies with our most classified information, and with an attempt by President Trump to interfere in the elections. My fear is this guy would completely go along with that." Speaking there on ABC's This Week, he was Features Contracts

of Trading and Mixed Territory. This is NPR News. A huge luxury development, backed by President Trump's Sun and Lottery Kushner, is facing growing resistance in Albania. And if you're as robust as reports, Kushner is proposing to build a resort on top of an environmentally protected coastal area. "Every night for the past week, thousands of Albanians have marched along the main thorough

fair in the capital to Rana. Each time ending up in front of Prime Minister Eddie Rama's office to protest his government's lack of transparency surrounding Kushner's project on a wildlife preserve." At a protest yesterday at the proposed site of the resort in Svarenich, Alby Batozzi was among hundreds concerned about the project. "Because it would not be for me, it would

be just for the 1% of the millionaires." This past week, state prosecutors froze the bank accounts of a landholding company tied to the resort. "Ropchmits and pierniers, Albania." Mercedes-Briever, Kimi Antonelli, won the Formula 1 Grand Prix race in Monaco today, giving him five wins in a row. He replaced Lewis Hamilton last year and only won his first race

in March, the 19-year-old Italian is the youngest F1 winner in Monaco. At the weekend box office, after three weeks of indie horror dominance, the slasher spoof sequel, Scary Movie, took the top spot with an estimated $55 million in ticket sales. The way in Brothers comedy, the sixth Scary Movie, notched a franchise best $105 million

global launch, in second place, masters of the universe, with $29 million.

I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington. On June 11, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to North America, the FIFA World Cup. The Super Bowl, and you might say, averages something over 100 million live viewers, but

the World Cup final, I think like five times that much. The favorites, the underdogs,

and the Americanization of the world's game. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the

Up First podcast on the NPR app.

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