"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm to Iran.
Iran and the U.S. exchanged air strikes last night, for the 7th consecutive night.
“The U.S. says a target at military and surveillance sites across Iran.”
Iran launched strikes against U.S. military targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan. There's no sign of an end to the conflict. NPR's Iranian-elving reports the war in Iran is likely to be an issue in the mid-term elections in November." It is not going away and it is not turning into a positive for the president.
The word self has been less than popular, heating it up again, expanding it is likely to be less popular still. But some of the economic damage from the war, higher gas prices, food prices, that's likely to persist through the fall, and in that sense, Iran will persist as an issue, even if the fighting ends."
NPR is Ron Elving, millions of people across the Great Lakes northeast and mid-Atlantic are facing another day of unhealthy air as wildfires smoke spreads from Minnesota and Canada. Dan Carp and Chuck reports more than 900 fires are burning, forcing thousands of people from their homes.
“Some of the worst-hit regions are northern Ontario and northern Quebec, flames of destroyed”
buildings and smoke as blanketed much of central Canada and drifted into the northeastern U.S., at least one indigenous community in northern Ontario has been destroyed, many residents are unable to grab a few belongings and flee by boat. People have also been displaced by fires in Manitoba, British Columbia, and the Northwest territories.
The Ontario government and the assembly of First Nations have called on Ottawa for support.
Although officials say it hasn't been the worst-fire season on record, research has linked climate change with longer wildfire seasons across Canada. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carp and Chuck in Toronto. Federal health officials in properly shared Medicaid data with ICE and January, and the immigration agency later provided the information to contractor Palantir.
NPR's Jude Jofi Block reports. Palantir pulls together various data sources and an app that ICE officers can use to locate immigrants home addresses. Last year, more than 20 states sued to stop federal health officials from sharing Medicaid data with ICE.
A federal judge ruled Medicaid officials could share limited data about immigrants in the country unlawfully, but the judge put the agreement on hold this spring after it came out that health officials had shared two data sets that were not limited to unlawful immigrants data. In recent weeks, federal officials acknowledged inadvertently resharing one of those data sets
again with ICE last month. ICE officials said in court filings that data in question was not used for law enforcement purposes. Jude Jofi Block and Pair News. Protests are planned across the country today against the construction of data centers
that support artificial intelligence.
They're being coordinated by group called humans first, residents are concerned about
higher power bills and the effects of the environment. This is NPR News in Washington. As the Democratic Republic of Congo deals with an Ebola outbreak, the world health organization is raising concerns about the rate of transmission of the disease in one particular area of the country.
Michael Coloki has more. In a statement yesterday that WHO directed general Tedros Gibrisis said that his agency was concerned of a quote "intense transmission" of Ebola in Congo's iturary province. Gibrisis added that armed conflict in the Central African nation poses a risk to both health responders and Ebola patients.
The WHO chief said that if the warring parties were to call for a temporary ceasefire, the truth would assist in helping deal with the outbreak, a report last month by Congo authorities said the presence of armed groups in parts of the country is limiting humanitarian access to several areas that have either been hit by the Ebola outbreak or are at risk of being affected by the disease for NPR News and Michael Coloki in Nairobi.
India's Sky Rude Aerospace launched a rocket into space today. The 7-story rocket carried six payloads into low-earth orbit, including satellites and scientific instruments.
“The launch was a key test of India's efforts to compete for a larger share of the global”
launch market. Sky Rude plans to offer dedicated launchers for small satellites, a service that describes as a taxi to space. I'm Nora Rom, 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 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. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
