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The U.S. has struck Iranian military facilities along its coast today in retaliation for
“Iran hitting a cargo ship the day before in the state of Hormuz with a drone, and”
Pierce Tom Bowman has more. The Central Command statement said American war planes attacked Iranian missile and drone storage locations in coastal radar sites. This comes after a run attack to Singapore flag cargo ship the ever-lovely, exiting the straight of Hormuz along the Omani coast where the U.S. has set up a pathway and
cleared it of mines. Iran insists that ships can only sail through the routes it has set up closer to its coast. Nearly three weeks ago, U.S. forces hit similar military targets after Iran fired multiple attack drones toward the straight, Tom Bowman NPR News.
At least 900 people are confirmed dead in Venezuela as search and rescue efforts continue following between earthquakes on Wednesday, thousands are injured as Dury Braskaran reports the disaster's straining a healthcare system that was already struggling. Some 50 buildings collapsed in the seaside state of La Guadilla says aid workers cease
“our humans from Project Hope, hotels, apartment complexes, buildings with 15 to 20 floors.”
He says some health centers suffered serious structural damage, putting them at risk of collapse. He says the health centers he's supporting are asking for basic items. The range is bandages iodine to clean wounds, oral rehydration salts for dehydration and nebulizers for people who have breathing problems after being exposed to the dust and
debris. It's a chaotic situation, humanist says, but no country can fully prepare for a disaster like this. For NPR News, I'm Dury Braskaran. Ukraine carried out a mass drone attack on several regions inside Russia and it's occupied
territories as NPR's Charles Mayans reports it's believed to be the largest single attack since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago. The attacks appear to be a salvo in what Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky calls a 40-day influence operation, and yet pressuring the Kremlin to end the war.
“Russia's defense ministry said its forces intercepted more than 650 drones, without providing”
details on damage or injuries, but Ukraine claimed to strike a chemical plant to the south of Moscow, and the Kremlin backed the thirties, and occupied Crimea into Claire to state of emergency. Ukraine is increasingly used long-range drones to target Russian defense and energy infrastructure, resulting fuel shortages across Russia of forced local governors to impose restrictions
on the sale of gas, or in the case of Crimea, a flat-out ban. Charles Mayans and Pyrenees, Moscow. The Texas State Board of Education is adding Bible stories as required reading, education
observers say the required reading list appears to be the first of its kind of the
nation critic's argue, the title's lack diversity and blur the separation of church and state. May the US stock indexes ticked down today, and it says NPR News from Washington. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is calling for a national billionaires tax, and he says that urgent reform is needed to prevent wealth concentration from harming
democracy, but Newsom opposes a state referendum this fall taxing billionaires in California, arguing that issues should be addressed federally to prevent billionaires from leaving the state. The US was once the undisputed research engine of the world, now China is taking a dominant role as NPR's Alyssa Matt Werney reports.
China is investing heavily in university research. At the same time, the Trump administration has appended the federal pipeline of research dollars to American institutions. David Cori, a scientist at Harvard Medical School, was one of the researchers whose federal grants were frozen last year.
He's been studying gene therapies meant to re-establish hearing in children. But the disruption to federal funds has meant his rivals in China are the ones finding breakthroughs. You know, it may be that we can tell somebody, yeah, there's going to be a cure for your deaf child, but you're going to have to go to Shanghai to get it.
And that's very frustrating. China's billions are paying off in a global ranking measuring academic output. Harvard lost its top spot to a university in China. In fact, seven out of the top 10 schools are now in China. Alyssa Notwani and PR News.
Astronomers say a large asteroid will soon harmlessly zip past Earth this weekend. The space rock is called 1997 NC1 and was discovered almost three decades ago by an asteroid tracking system in Hawaii. It'll make its closest approach Saturday morning coming within 1.6 million miles. This is NPR News from Washington.
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