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"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, Israel and Iran continue ...

missile fire, Iran fired missile toward Iran yesterday after Israel carried out fresh attacks in Lebanon.

Now who the rebels in Yemen have also fired a missile toward Israel and threatened shipping

in the Red Sea. There are no initial reports of injuries, and Pisa Del Al-Shelgi has more." Explosions were heard across to Iran in the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz, and Iran closed the airspace around the capital's international airport as Israel said its struck targets in Iran.

Earlier in the day, Iran fired missiles towards Israel triggering sirens in the north.

It was the first such attack since the ceasefire took effect in early April, threatening

ongoing efforts to negotiate and end to the conflict. Tehran had previously warned it would retaliate after Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut, despite a U.S. plea earlier in the week to avoid escalation. Israel said the strike in Lebanon was in response to rocket fire from the Iranian back to his bolla and to northern Israel earlier that day.

Haddel Al-Shalgi and PR news. A few minutes ago, President Trump wrote online, Israel and Iran must immediately stop shooting. Health officials in Africa are warning the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading. Reporter Emmett Livingstone is in DRC's capital, Kinshasa.

It hurried a province in eastern Congo about the size of West Virginia as the epicenter of the outbreak with about 94% of recorded cases in Congo and according to Congo's health authorities, the virus has now spread to half of the province's health zones. Now, it's hard to gauge the scale of this crisis, but there are clues that suggest it's much larger than the official figures suggest.

Emmett Livingstone reporting. The House of Representatives will take up two measures this week.

One would renew a key American spying power.

The others a bill that would pay for three years of federal immigration enforcement. And there's Eric McDaniel reports that immigration enforcement measure was held up in the Senate.

This $70 billion in immigration enforcement money was first delayed by President Trump's

push for a billion dollars in secret service money for his ballroom project that pushed failed. Then the money was held up by his fund to give taxpayer bucks to folks who claim they've been victimized by the government. That's currently on hold due to a court decision, though Trump says he hopes to revive

it. House Republicans intend to send this immigration enforcement deal passed by the Senate Friday to the White House sometime this week. Then onto their next challenge, renewing section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which lets the government collect foreigners' communications abroad.

That fight got complicated, though, when Trump named a controversial pick to be acting director of national intelligence, lawmakers have until Friday to work it out, Eric McDaniel and PR News Washington.

jury selection starts in Los Angeles today in the federal trial of the man charged with

setting ablaze that led to the deadly palisades fire last year that fire killed doesn't

people. You're listening to NPR. Police in Toledo, Ohio say they're looking for the suspects involved in a mass shooting on Saturday. 12 people were wounded at a city festival.

Police in Toledo say the victims are now all in stable condition. One way's highest honors, the Tony Awards, were handed out last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The events host was the pop-star pink. Jeff London reports the honors were spread widely among many offerings.

If there was one clear winner of the night, it was the revival of Arthur Miller's death of a salesman. The atmospheric production set in a garage picked up six Tony's, including Best Revival of a Play. elsewhere the awards were more evenly spread.

Ragtime picked up four awards, including Best Musical Revival, while cats the Jellicle Ball picked up three. Schmiggadoon won four awards, including Best Musical. But the lost boys picked up four awards, too. Best Play went to Liberation.

10 PR news, I'm Jeff London, in New York. Tonight is game three of the NBA Finals, the New York Knicks lead the series against the San Antonio Spurs, too to nothing. They'll host the Spurs and President Trump in Madison Square Garden tonight Mayor Mamdoni will also attend, but a watch party planned for Knicks fans outside Madison Square

Garden has now been canceled for security reasons. Other watch parties will go ahead. This is npr. Every episode of its been a minute, NPR's What's Happening in Culture Podcast starts by asking three questions, "Who?

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