Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
The Republican-led Congress is weighing a $67 billion emergency funding request from the Pentagon,
“and PR's Claudia Grisolle's reports, this comes on the heels of the expanding war in”
Iran. Defense Secretary Petek said told Senate appropriators that the Department could face short falls without the urgent funding, but he faced heated resistance from some senators angry with the direction of the war. Here's Michigan Democrat Gary Peters.
You don't have a strategy. You don't have a long-term plan to actually win this war, win the war. The men and women are going to be able to do it, but they need to have leadership. And a visibly frustrated Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy repeatedly told Hacksett to give Congress, quote, "strait answers."
18 US service members have been killed in the war in nearly 500 injured. It's hard to do the Sunnis, and PR News. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the country's top military commander. It's the second major shake-up in Kiev's military leadership in the last week. And PR's Greg Myri says Zelensky made this latest move following days of protests, calling
for the General's Alster. In a late-night social media post, President Zelensky dismissed the head of the Armed Forces,
“General Alexander Serzky. The General, aged 60, was credited with winning several key battles”
in recent years, but he's also a Soviet trained officer who favored rigid battlefield tactics. He clashed with the popular Defense Minister, 35-year-old Mikhailo Federoff, a leading advocate of innovative drone warfare. Zelensky fired Federoff last week.
That ignited the protests in support of Federoff and against the General. Zelensky has named a new General to lead the military, but still has an acting defense Minister for now. Greg Myri, MPR News, Kiev. The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was on Capitol Hill yesterday,
answering questions from members of a House subcommittee. As NPR's Anastasia Silcus reports, Republicans on the panel argued, the museum has become infected with what they called "Woke Ideology." The hearing was convened by the House of Representatives, Dodge Subcommittee, chaired by Republican, Timbershatt of Tennessee.
American story is the birth and growth of a great nation founded on powerful ideals in which
we aim to fully achieve, but in the museum's current telling history is just an ongoing power struggle between oppressors and the oppressed. Those criticisms closely mirror the language of a report recently issued by President Trump's Domestic Policy Council. And they are heart-taked the museum's director defended the institution she runs as non-partisan
and independent. Anastasia Silcus and Piano News, New York. This is NPR News in Washington. Scientists say they hope a new NASA telescope set a launch next month will give them insights into black holes.
That Moss Hione with member station WYPR reports on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The hardest part about observing black holes is that they're black and hard to see, even on a high resolution telescope.
“The best way to look for them is to look at the stars they're shredding apart with their”
massive gravitational poles. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on August 30th, partly to detect black
holes that existed up to 11 billion years ago.
So Carmen, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is the lead on the study that being black holes is really studying the most extreme parts of physics and it's all a part of trying to understand how the world works even in the biggest sin in the smallest scales. The Roman Telescope will have the same resolution as the Hubble Telescope both a much larger
field of view. For NPR News, I'm Scott Moss Hione in Baltimore. Open AI is reporting what it describes as an unprecedented cyber incident and the company says it's artificial intelligence technology acted autonomously hacking into the systems of an AI startup called hugging face.
Open AI CEO Sam Altman says in a statement the security incident compromised hugging faces infrastructure. The two companies are working together to figure out how this happened. In Trump's nominee to become the next director of the CDC faces a Senate Committee vote this week.
Dr. Erica Schwartz is a former deputy surgeon general. I'm Kristen Wright and this is NPR News from Washington. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16 year old laughed 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.
