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The U.S. military says Iran launched multiple missiles at American forces in the Middle
East.
“That ends the recent pause in fighting as mediators try to get both sides back to negotiations.”
U.S. Central Command says all the missiles were successfully intercepted. It says U.S. forces quote "remain vigilant in at a high state of readiness." President Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met today to discuss Ukraine producing weapons amid its war with Russia, and PR's Greg Mayary has more. Ukraine's most pressing need is U.S. Patriot missiles, by far the most effective weapon
in shooting down those incoming Russian ballistic missiles. Now, Zelensky said he discussed Trump's offer made earlier this month to give Ukraine a license to make its own Patriot missiles. But this would be complicated and unlikely to take a couple of years, and Russia is firing those missiles right now, most every night. When you hear those air raid sirens go off,
you know Ukraine is desperately short of these interceptors, and the Russian missiles are much more likely to strike now than in the past. NPR's Greg Mayary reporting, the Senate is set to confirm Jay Clayton to become the head
“of the nation's intelligence agencies, ensuring that a permanent director is in place”
as the midterm elections approach. Clayton's expected to be confirmed along party lines today after a contentious hearing two weeks ago, in which he repeatedly refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Democrats have said they have more confidence and Clayton than they do in Trump's temporary pick for the job Bill Polty, who has no known intelligence experience.
Democratic candidates have been focused on the economy ahead of the midterms, but as President Trump raises doubts about elections, some Democrats think they might need to talk about democracy too, and PR's Ashley Lopez reports. Democrats have been dominating in special elections since last year, mostly by running on an economic message. This is why some operatives say candidates shouldn't get distracted by
other issues cropping up, including threats to democracy. But Jane Cleb with the Democratic National Committee says this was something she heard a lot in 2024 as well. In a turns out that that was a fundamental issue that was motivating people, and that might
“not have been something that they were telling ex-appellers, or it wasn't something that”
was coming up on exit surveys or polling. One Democratic candidate told MPR urging voters to care about Democratic institutions because
ultimately they affect prices can be a way of talking about democracy and the economy at
the same time. Ashley Lopez and PR News. Florida has become the first state nearly a decade to carry out two executions in one day. Today, putting to death in ex-police officer convicted of murder and only the second octogenarian known to receive a lethal injection in modern U.S. history. Florida has now carried
out 12 executions this year, more than all other states combined in 2017 Arkansas executed two men in the single day. This is NPR News. Early voting is beginning in swing state Wisconsin's chaotic Democratic primary for governor with a Democratic socialist trying to overcome the incumbent governor's pick. The Democratic
candidates meet for their only debate tonight, Democrats are vying to retain control of the governor's office and flip both chambers of the legislature to earn full control of
Wisconsin State government for the first time since 2010.
There's growing concern about a blood supply shortage in the U.S. The U.S. Surgeon General's office is encouraging Americans to donate, as NPR's will stone reports. The surgeon general says the blood supply is significantly lower than it should be after weeks of declining donations. The country is currently in yellow status, meaning there is less than a two-day supply
for opositive blood. The red cross is declaring it a crisis and attributes the shortfall to extreme heat, poor air quality, and widespread food bornellnesses. Will stone and PR news. The FAA says seats on hundreds of Boeing 737 max jets in the U.S. may require inspections, in case they were incorrectly installed and need to be fixed. The agency says the seats
could injure passengers or block the aisle during an evacuation. A TSA officer discovered five stolen civil war era cannonballs in a passenger's check bag at Gulf Shore's International Airport in Alabama earlier this month. The items were wrapped in paper towels and traced back to nearby historic Fort Morgan. The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office says the passenger's 17-year-old grandchild stole
the cannonballs from a storage area at the fort. This is NPR News from Washington. This is Taudi Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air. Don't miss my interview with writer Gia Tolentino. We talk about plastic surgery and how current beauty standards are changing our relationship to reality.
It seems more explicitly anti-human right now than ever before. There seemed to be something that's dove-tailing with the age of AI.
