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Iran has buried its late supreme leader after days of public mourning and months after
“he was killed in U.S. and Israeli air strikes.”
NPR's Hadile Al-Shachi reports the funeral was held in mid-renewed fighting this week between the U.S. and Iran." Earlier in the day, Iranian state media showed huge crowds swarming the truck carrying the casket of Ayatollahli Hamanai and four of his killed family members as it made its way through his birthplace Meshhead.
People wearing black spilled into the streets to perform the ritual Islamic funeral prayers facing the casket draped in the Iranian flag. Iranian state media reported that army fighter jets were flying over the skies of Meshhead to secure them for the last day of the funeral.
On Wednesday, U.S. sent com said its struck Iranian military installations in retaliation
for Iranian strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. Hadile Al-Shachi and PR News Istanbul.
“The White House has removed the remaining leadership at the Election Assistance Commission,”
and PR's Ashley Lopez reports the move leaves the independent agency in an uncertain position ahead of the November mid-terms. The White House says it has removed the last few commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission. This is an independent agency created in the wake of the 2000 presidential election,
a close race plagued by administrative errors.
The agency has since helped provide election officials with resources and has collected data
about how elections went. The EAC was created to have four commissioners at the beginning of this year, one Republican member abruptly resigned, and now another is also resigning. The agency's two Democratic members, however, were removed. Trump also removed members of the Federal Election Commission another independent agency
that oversees elections. Ashley Lopez and PR News. More than 300,000 Haitian immigrants and about 6,000 Syrians could soon lose their legal right to live and work in the United States. A recent Supreme Court ruling allows the White House to move ahead with ending temporary
protected status for both groups. Catherine Mobily from Member Station, WISO reports from Springfield, Ohio, which is home to a large Haitian community. Today is a big challenge because work permits are expiring. These work permits are connected to a person's TPS.
Their driver's license is then connected to their work permit. Thus, once a person loses their TPS, they lose their ability to legally work and drive in their community, and this definitely makes it very difficult for individuals to support their families to earn an income. Catherine Mobily from Member Station, WISO reporting.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Officials in New Mexico say the federal government's failure to release unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files is hampering his state investigation, Daniel Montano of Member Station, KU&M reports the increase centers on alleged crimes at Epstein's New Mexico State. New Mexico Attorney General Raoul Torres sent a letter to U.S. Department of Justice
acting director Todd Blanch, demanding immediate access to the unredacted files, which he says he initially requested more than 130 days ago. Torres is investigating allegations of sex trafficking and other crimes at the 10,000 acre property near Santa Fe that Epstein called the Zoro Ranch. State officials told NPR the state has not ruled out using legal action to secure the files
of necessary. Torres goes on to say, quote, "Records in the U.S. DOJ's custody contain the names of
“survivors, witnesses, co-conspirators, and other individuals whose identities are essential”
to the NMDOJ's investigation. The environmental protection agency is proposing changes to Biden-era roles aimed at reducing pollution from buses, large trucks, and other heavy duty vehicles. The EPA calls the current requirements unnecessary and unworkable. The agency wants to delay and scale back to provisions intended to make sure emissions
control technology continues working throughout the vehicle's life. The proposal is part of a broader Trump administration effort to weaken emissions standards for new vehicles. I'm Mr. Johnston and PR News in Washington. For three weeks in 2020, part of my Seattle neighborhood was taken over by a protest occupation.
We were here to protest police brutality, but it ended in tragedy. The whole space felt darker and angrier. Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio May's junior. Listen to We Keep Us Safe on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
