Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Nearly half of House Democrats voted today in favor of cutting off aid to Israel.
“It wasn't enough to pass, but as NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, the tally highlights a major”
shift in political support for a long time ally of the United States.
The proposed amendment to a State Department funding bill would have removed over $3 billion
in funding to Israel. It ultimately failed. The measure was introduced by Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who has long advocated for a more isolationist posture when it comes to foreign policy. The issue divided democratic leaders who typically vote in lockstep.
The number two Democrat in the House, Catherine Clark, voted to remove the funding for Israel. House Minority Leader Hockeyam Jeffries called it "Overly Broad," and said it would also restrict the United States' ability to confront Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations in the region.
Robert Sprunt and Pernus, President Trump today, said ice officers should continue to stop vehicles as they work to detain and deport people in the country without legal status. This despite two fatal shootings in a week, one in Texas, one in Maine, that let Homeland
“Security officials to issue a temporary halt to the practice.”
On social media, Trump defended vehicle stops urging ice to "go back and do your very important job." The appeals court has ordered a lower court to close a decades-old school desegregation case in Louisiana, the Gulf state newsrooms Aubrey Ujas has more. 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 they're 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 NPR News, I'm opera Ujas in New Orleans.”
The new chair of the Federal Reserve is vowing to put high inflation in the rearview mirror, given wars testified before the Senate banking committee today for the first time since taking over at the central bank. And Pierscott Horsesley has more. The Fed's main weapon for fighting inflation is keeping rates high, so wars doesn't sound
like he's in a hurry to cut interest rates. But that said, he has generally tried to avoid signaling what his rate plans are. Unlike his Fed colleagues, wars did not offer projection last month, where he thinks interest rates are going. And today, he ducked a question from Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen about whether
he's even spoken to Trump about interest rates. All he would say is he's not taking orders from the White House. They chose an independent guy to do an independent job, and that's exactly what I plan on doing. And Pierscott Horsesley, you're listening to NPR News.
More than 830 wildfires are burning in Canada, along with more than a dozen in Northern Minnesota. That's forcing mandatory evacuations and spreading unhealthy smoke across the upper Midwest through the Northeast and Atlantic. Some of the largest wildfires are burning in West Central Ontario. In a remote northern Minnesota area, Rangers are working to evacuate thousands of campers
from the Boundary Waters canoe area wilderness, officials warn the fire burn for months. Tribal nations in Oklahoma aren't navigating an influx of corporate interest in Indian country around data centers. Thomas Pablo from Member Station K.O.S.U. reports, 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 startup company pitched a data center project to the tribe. Shabon Colonel 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 to 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 and Oklahoma City. Argentina has won the men's World Cup soccer last semi-final game today against England two to one, meaning Argentina plays Spain in the final on Sunday. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. 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 was going to 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.
