Live from NPR news on Giles Snyder and Washington Congress is back on Capitol...
the July 4th holiday break.
“The Senate will be getting back to work without South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey”
Graham who died over the weekend at age 71 in Pierce, Claudia Grousalis. It's going to make a difficult season for the Senate even harder. And that is because Graham had such an outsized influence starting with the budget committee for example, one goal we've heard from House Republicans, for example, is to put together a partisan spending plan, but without the chair of the Senate budget committee now, senators
are going to have to scramble and decide how to recalibrate there. Graham's temporary replacement is expected to be sworn in Tuesday afternoon, South Carolina governor, Henry McMaster called on Graham sister Darlene to fill out the rest of his term through January Monday morning's fatal shooting by an ice officer in Maine came less than a week after an ice agent shot and killed a man in Houston, Texas.
The district attorney and Harris County says his office still trying to obtain evidence from federal investigators, Houston Public Media's Kyle McClendick and reports. Last week, Harris County D.A. Shontier announced his office would be conducting its own investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Arralho, who was killed by federal agents after they tried to pull him over. This week, Tier says his office is still asking
“for cooperation. We are still trying to get access to a number of key pieces of evidence.”
What those pieces are, I'm not going to go into. At some point, it becomes a place where we stop asking him, we start asking district court judges in state court and federal court to grant us access. Tier announced the independent investigation after he says DHS declined to invite his office to join the ongoing federal investigation. For NPR News, I'm Kyle McClendick and in Houston.
"Your paying countries in Japan have agreed to contribute about $1 billion to a new fund to help rebuild water and health systems in Gaza and PR assembly Fang reports." Much of Gaza's buildings are destroyed and the United Nations says about 70% of Gaza's or about 1.7 million people are internally displaced, many living in makeshift tents. Rebuilding has been slowed down by ongoing Israeli strikes and because Israel restricts
“what can go in Gaza, including heavy machinery and construction materials. The UN has requested”
$2.8 billion to address critical needs only in Gaza. Meanwhile, delegations from Qatar, Turkey,
Hamas and the U.S. led board of peace are in their second date as meetings in Egypt. They're trying to hash out some of the more contentious points of an Israel Hamas peace plan, including mechanisms for Hamas to disarm. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Tel Aviv. And this is NPR News. Iran is retaliating for the latest U.S. strikes on the country, Bahrain sounded its missile alert system for a third time Tuesday. Iran is also targeted two
tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates, killing one person and wounding eight others, and now Iran targeted a U.S. air base in Jordan. The U.S. military says it has completed a third consecutive night of strikes on Iran. After President Trump said he is reinstating a blockade and suggested the U.S. will charge ships for safe passage through the strait for moves. President Trump's National Guard deployments have not reduced urban crime in the cities where
troops have been sent. That's according to a new study from the Progressive Center for American Progress. That's a several of those deployments still ongoing, including Washington, D.C., Sanbiero's Catlawed Story Reports. National Guard members are currently deployed in D.C., Memphis and New Orleans, all as part of broader efforts by President Trump to fight crime in those cities. Violent crime was already trending down in all of those cities before Trump took
office in 2025 and before those deployments began. Those trends have continued and the study found they would have likely continued without the presence of the National Guard. The total cost
of these deployments have extended through the end of 2026 will exceed $1.7 billion,
according to an estimate from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. The number of troops in D.C. recently doubled to more than 5,100 as part of a federal "summer surge of law enforcement." Catlawed Story and Pierre News, Washington. "And I'm Jale Snyder. This is MPR News." Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia. One took a unique turn. "Somebody over there saying it's enough to use the gun?"
This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle. Listen to We Keep Us Safe, a new true crime series on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
