Live from NPR News, I'm Jail Snyder.
Iran has released an American woman who's been trapped in the country for the past year
and a half.
“President Trump calls it a goodwill gesture, and her lawyer says a release would not”
have happened without Trump's support, as in Piers Michele Kalman reports. Dana Karari is a dual U.S. Iranian citizen who's been trapped in Iran since December of 2024, in a message on social media president Trump says she is now safely outside Iran. And in good condition, her lawyer, Jared Gensor, writes in the statement that Karari
was subjected to what he calls a coercive exit ban and was interrogated dozens of times and suffered enormous hardships, though she was not in prison. He says she drew the attention of Iranian authorities because she runs a non-profit that has a U.S. Treasury Department license to collect private donor support for poor children in Iran.
Michele Kalman and B.R. News, Washington, word of Dana Karari's release came amid ongoing attacks by the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. military says it has completed the latest wave of strikes in Iranian military targets. Iran has been retaliating firing missiles and drones early Thursday at targets in Bahrain
in Kuwait.
“And appeals court has ordered a lower court to close a decades-old school de-segregation”
case in Louisiana, the Gulf states' newsrooms, Aubrey Juhas reports. The Fifth Circuit said in a ruling this week that the district court overstepped when it denied a joint dismissal it had no choice but to accept. The opinion box legal precedent. Louisiana's attorney general has been pursuing the approach with support from the Department
of Justice.
Until Trump's second term, the DOJ, which brought many cases against school districts back
in the '60s, was working to settle, not dismiss them. Louisiana's attorney general argues the orders are so old their obsolete, and districts should be freed from court supervision. Civil rights groups say they're still relevant because they are lingering effects from segregation.
There are dozens of open cases in the South. For MPR News, I'm opera U.H. in New Orleans. Well, come final is said defending champion Argentina rallied today in the final minutes
“of regulation scoring twice to beat England two goals to won, reporter Natalie Alcobas,”
fan reaction from Buenos Aires. This is the sound of victory in Buenos Aires after a stunning come from behind win for Argentina's national football team in a semi-final match with England at the World Cup. It's one of soccer's most storied rivalries between two countries that have battled on and off the pitch.
They fought a war in 1982 over the Falkland Islands, and in 1986 Diego married on a scored the iconic hand of God goal. This time, the magic came from Lionel Messi, who set up the winning header from Laudado Martinez in the waning minutes of the game. It means Argentina will face Spain in the final on Sunday in New Jersey.
I'm Natalie Alcobas in Buenos Aires for NPR News. This is NPR News. The New York Times has filed a court motion seeking to block subpoenas served by the Justice Department to three times journalists that reported on security concerns with President Trump's new Air Force Juan, a gift from Qatar.
During his confirmation hearing today, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the subpoenas are aimed at identifying people who leaked sensitive national security information. However, the situation tees up a court fight over press freedom. U.S. Attorney of Manhattan, Jay Clayton, issued those subpoenas. He was also on Capitol Hill today, Clayton is President Trump's choice for director
of national intelligence, he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee repeatedly clashing with Democrats over the 2020 election. Tribal nations in Oklahoma navigating an influx of corporate interests and locating data centers on their land, Thomas Pablo, from Member Station KOS, reports that many tribes are responding cautiously.
Earlier this year, the seminal nation of Oklahoma became the first in the U.S. to ban
AI data center development on the reservation. They came after a start-up company pitched a data center project to the tribe. Mr. Bon Kernel is the tribal representative who authored the ban. What companies are saying to our communities is that you don't want to get left behind. We speak the mother languages of these lands that have been here millennia upon millennia
before these technologies existed. We have a right to say how life can be. Other leaders in the Cherokee, Mescogi, and O.S. nations are now determining the best course of action to balance much needed economic development with cultural interests.
For NPR News, I'm Thomas Pablo in Oklahoma City. This is NPR News. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. He told me he would not make me cry.
Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. I need some a ref me, just as for my son.
