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along its coast today in retaliation for Iran hitting a cargo ship the day before in the state of Hormuz with a drone. And Piers 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 Iran attacked a Singapore flag cargo ship, the ever-lovely, exiting the state 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 and Piers News. And Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Israel and Lebanon have a preliminary peace deal after months of conflict between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu says it's a great achievement that allows his military to remain in territory, it occupied in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah official warned of civil war.
The death toll in Venezuela is climbing after two powerful earthquakes hit the country on Wednesday,
thousands of people are believed to be trapped under rubble. The Trump administration announced what appears to be its strongest disaster response since this dismantled U.S. A.I.D. last year as empire's Fatman tennis reports. There's been a quiet shift in their attitude towards foreign aid in the last ten months. The administration has created a Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response in the State
Department. They've hired back some of the staff that had been laid off at U.S. A.D. they're spending more money. At the same time, the administration has made it clear that it's prioritizing helping countries that are of geopolitical interests to the United States.
And of course, Venezuela is one of them after the U.S. toppled its authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in January. Fatman tennis reporting, rulings from the Supreme Court yesterday give President Trump more power to enact his immigration agenda, one decision allows the administration to move forward with revoking temporary legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants.
The other puts limits on how immigrants can claim asylum and PRC-menobustio reports. These rulings allow the government to further change the immigration system into separate six three decisions the conservative majority handed Trump wins for his immigration policy. The court re-inlit the termination of temporary protected status for a Haiti and Syria.
And that means over 300,000 people could be at risk of deportation if they're not able to secure another form of legal status or leave. In another decision, the court backed a policy that allows custom and border protection agents to turn away asylum seekers before they cross the U.S. border. The DHS General Counsel James Percival said the decisions give the agency, quote, "several
“more important tools to continue securing our borders."”
He metabustio and PR News, Washington. "This is NPR News." 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 in the nation
critics argue the titles lacked diversity and blur the separation of church and state. A group of ex Noah employees and volunteers have launched a new climate data website to replace one that was taken off line last year by the Trump administration, and PR Scott Newman has more. Until a year ago, climate.gov was a go-to resource for scientists, educators, farmers,
and the general public to access climate data and analysis. But at the height of the doge cutbacks last year, it was shut down and the Noah personnel who maintained it, fired. The administration said the information was moved to other parts of the agency's website. But now three of those fired employees have created climate.us, a clone of the site to ensure
that access to the information is maintained. Rebecca Lindsey heads the effort.
“"I think this information is too important, and it should remain in a protected place."”
Lindsey says the goal is to maintain current data and easily understood analysis. Scott Newman and PR News.
Greece is the first nation in the world to incorporate a dedicated satellite array into its wild
firefighting system, but planners across Europe envision applying an emergency and emerging satellite architecture far beyond fire detection. Future systems are likely to support border surveillance, heat wave, planning, and defense, as the continent continues to be rattled by Russia's war in Ukraine and strain ties with the U.S.
Major U.S. stock indexes ticked down today, even though most of the market rose after oil prices eased back. This is NPR News from Washington. This week on the NPR politics podcast, we're digging into the massive wave of tech money flooding the midterms, with a growing appetite and DC to regulate AI.
AI companies and AI interests really want to be involved in picking who is going to write that kind of legislation. We break down a proxy battle over the future of AI regulation.
