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Iran fired missiles toward Israel triggering sirens in the north.
“It marks the first such attack since a fragile ceasefire took effect in early April, and”
it threatens ongoing efforts to negotiate an end to the war. Tehran says it's in response to Israel attacking a suburb of Beirut earlier today, despite the ceasefire with Lebanon, the Tehran called a red line, and in defiance of Washington, Washington's request days ago, for Israel to stand out. If he was Jane Herraf has more from Beirut.
The attack hit an apartment building in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Iran backed Hisbola has offices. Israel said without providing evidence that it was a Hisbola command center. Iran's National Security Commission said it would deliver a "painful response overnight to Israel" in retaliation, Iran has tied a ceasefire in Lebanon to a wider peace agreement
with the US. Jane Herraf and Beirut News tire Lebanon.
“Ukraine's President for Lodamir Zelensky met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer,”
French President of Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London, and Pierce Fulina Litwinova reports they talked about the situation on the battlefield, and Europe's role in peace talks. According to Zelensky, Russia has been losing more than 30,000 soldiers, including killed and wounded for five months in a row.
Russia is not being on the battlefield, hereout on social media. But Keiv still needs allies help to protect its guys from Russian ballistic measles, strengthen in Ukrainian air defense was one of the main topics during the talks, and other one was diplomacy. Zelensky believes Europe must be at the negotiating table, but its position, quote, "suit
bistroan." Polina Litwinova and Beirut News, Kyiv.
The Senate passed a $70 billion bill last week to fund ICE and customs border patrol for
the remainder of President Trump's term, and it now heads to the House this week, where it's expected to pass, and Pierce Eric McDaniel has more. They're certainly accomplishing a big goal, three years of funding, through the rest of Trump's
“term will insulate immigration enforcement from a lot of political pressure, right?”
They can hold funding back. And mass deportations were a central campaign talking point for Trump. But it took basically six months to get here, and they weren't quiet. Public opinions started to turn on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed to American citizens in Minnesota early in the year, and Democrats, of course, shut down
the agency that overseas immigration enforcement for months, in a failed effort to secure reforms like body cameras and limits on face covering stuff like that. And Pierce Eric McDaniel, a tsunami warning system issued tsunami threats for the Philippines
and neighboring Indonesia after a powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquakes struck off Mindenau's
in the southern Philippines, this according to the U.S. geological survey. This is NPR. In Ohio, police in Toledo are still searching for the gunmen who open fire near a busy street festival yesterday, wounding 12 people. While we're hospitalized and please say they are in stable condition, videos posted
to social media show people running at the sound of gunfire and medics tending to the wounded in a part filled with event tents and food trucks, there's no word on a motive. Former Republican Senator Bob Pakwood died today, he was 93 years old. The moderate from Oregon, who championed women's rights, was also forced to resign after 20 women alleged sexual misconduct, and Pierce Jordan Marie Smith has more.
Republican Bob Pakwood was a controversial figure in American politics. While some saw him as a policy advocate for women's advancement, 20 women accused him of misconduct, Pakwood spent three years under investigation by the bipartisan Senate select committee on ethics. He eventually resigned in 1995.
For years, the Senator from Oregon was seen as a feminist ally in the Republican party. Pakwood's private life and his public policy called his record into question. Senator Pakwood died in Rancho Mirage, California, at 93. Jordan Marie Smith and pair news. In basketball, the NBA finals moved to Madison Square Garden in New York tomorrow night.
The New York next beat the San Antonio spurs in the first two games, and security will
be heightened at the garden tomorrow night because President Trump is expected to attend. U.S. futures contracts are trading and mixed territory this hour. I'm Janine Herbst and PR news. If the culture is asking it, we're talking about it. At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious, and indulge your cultural curiosity.
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