U.S., Israel’s battle with Iran; Texas Latinos; SCOTUS : NPR

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The U.S. and Israel’s battle over Iran has engulfed extra of the Center East because it enters its third day. Final evening, the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel for the primary time in additional than a 12 months. Israel responded with air strikes in Beirut and southern Lebanon. Iran is concentrating on neighboring nations that host American army bases. The Pentagon says three U.S. service members have been killed over the weekend. Congress is ready to vote on bipartisan battle powers resolutions this week aimed toward limiting President Trump’s army operations in Iran. The twin efforts within the Home and Senate face uphill battles to turn into regulation, as earlier makes an attempt to claim congressional authority to declare battle have failed.

• 🎧 On Up First, NPR’s Jackie Northam says she spoke to folks in Iran in regards to the dying of their supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Evaluations have been combined. Some stated they’re very glad about his dying. On social media, some have been seen knocking down his statues. However massive crowds additionally attended pro-regime rallies mourning his dying.
• 🎧 The White Home advised NPR that Iran needs to restart nuclear talks and that Trump will ultimately converse with whoever is in cost. However a high Iranian safety official on X stated Iran is not going to negotiate. Trump stated the U.S. will proceed full-force fight operations in Iran till his targets are met, although he hasn’t specified what these particular targets are. With out realizing what the U.S. needs to attain, it’s onerous to foretell how lengthy the battle will final, NPR’s Franco Ordoñez says.
• 🎧 If Iran continues to retaliate in opposition to the U.S. by concentrating on its Arab neighbors, these Gulf Arab states may determine to strike again, widening the battle additional, NPR’s Aya Batrawy says. The U.Okay., France and Germany say they are going to take steps to defend their allies’ pursuits within the area. Saudi Arabia says Iranian drones focused considered one of its largest oil refineries right now. Oil costs rose sharply when market buying and selling started yesterday.
• ➡️ See pictures of Iran, Israel and reactions from around the globe over the airstrikes. Satellite tv for pc pictures supply a distinctive have a look at the destruction inflicted upon Iran’s army amenities.
• ➡️ A number of episodes of NPR’s Throughline clarify the historic context of the U.S.’ relationship with Iran in addition to the protests that set the stage for this weekend’s assaults. Hearken to the YouTube audio playlist.

The Supreme Court docket hears arguments right now in a high-stakes gun case that has united a uncommon array of individuals, from conservative gun rights teams to liberal civil liberties teams. On the coronary heart of the battle is a federal regulation banning drug customers from proudly owning firearms. It’s the similar regulation used to prosecute Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, for unlawful gun possession. This time, the justices should determine if the federal government can criminalize gun possession for marijuana customers.

The continued Texas primaries supply the primary actual take a look at of whether or not the Republican Social gathering can preserve its maintain on influential Latino swing voters. These voters fueled Trump’s 2024 victory, serving to him win in components of the state the place the GOP has traditionally struggled. Nonetheless, latest shifts counsel that Texas’ Latino inhabitants could also be starting to again away from the political social gathering.

Life recommendation

Elizabeth Kanagawa, an authorized youngster passenger security technician and the proprietor of Three Littles, a youngsters’s retailer that sells strollers and automotive seats in Washington, D.C, demonstrates the way to modify the harness of a automotive seat.

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Mother and father: Likelihood is, you may not have your kid’s automotive seat put in accurately. Based on knowledge from the Nationwide Digital Automobile Seat Verify Type, 74% of the just about 60,000 automotive seats that youngster passenger security technicians (CPSTs) checked in 2025 weren’t getting used as supposed by the producer. Automobile accidents are a number one reason for dying amongst U.S. youngsters, in accordance with a Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration report. Accurately used automotive and booster seats considerably scale back this danger. Study what a safe automotive seat base and a tightly fixed tether appear like with Life Equipment’s visible information.

• 🚗 The highest mistake dad and mom make with automotive seats has to do with the seat belt. The automotive seat should not transfer a couple of inch facet to facet or entrance to again once you safe it in a fixed seat base. Firmly shake it to verify.
• 🚗 The harness top relies on whether or not your kid’s automotive seat faces ahead or rearward. Place the harness at a top that controls the kid’s motion and reduces the chance of harm. For instance, in a forward-facing seat, set it at or barely above the shoulder.
• 🚗 The lengthy straps that grasp off your kid’s automotive seat are usually not optionally available. Connect these crucial tethers to your car’s again seat anchor level, which is situated on the rear shelf, seat again, ceiling or ground.

For extra recommendations on the way to accurately set up a automotive seat, take heed to this episode of NPR’s Life Equipment. Subscribe to the Life Equipment publication for professional recommendation on love, cash, relationships and extra.

Behind the story

by Chris Bentley, Right here & Now producer and Peter O’Dowd, Right here & Now host

A moose in Minnesota wears a collar that collects GPS location knowledge.

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Taking a hike is an effective way to place issues in perspective. Right here & Now‘s environmental sequence Reverse Course lately took us to some fairly distant locations as we tagged together with scientists attempting to guard two charismatic animals from the results of local weather change.

Peter summited a “sky island” in southern Arizona. He ascended from the warmth of the desert right into a snow-capped forest, all looking for an elusive endangered species referred to as the Mount Graham crimson squirrel — so-named as a result of it lives solely on that one mountain.

Chris searched the boreal forest of Minnesota’s Arrowhead Area for moose. He adopted scientists with the state and two native tribes as they scanned the wilderness on snowmobiles and helicopters for 9-month-old moose calves.

We have been 1,500 miles aside however had comparable moments of realization within the woods: The churn of the information, political posturing and web chatter appear so insignificant within the silence of the forest, hours from different people, watching snow accumulate in a bull moose’s antlers or a tiny squirrel going about its routine of stashing pinecones as if it isn’t considered one of solely about 200 people left on the planet.

After all, what people do issues very a lot to these animals, which is why we have been there within the first place, talking with scientists about local weather change and habitat conservation. In our tales for Right here & Now, we tried to convey our sense of awe and assist folks think about a world with more room for nature, wild locations and non-human methods of life.

Come take a hike with us on our podcast, Right here & Now Anytime.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

A screenshot from George Mélière’s Gugusse et l’Automate. The pioneering French filmmaker’s 1897 brief, which seemingly options the primary recognized depiction of a robotic on movie, was thought misplaced till it was discovered amongst a field of previous reels that had belonged to a household in Michigan and restored by the Library of Congress.

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1. The Library of Congress has discovered and restored a long-lost silent movie, Gugusse et l’Automate, by Georges Méliès. Méliès made the movie practically 130 years in the past.
2. NASA is redirecting its Artemis lunar program and delaying a deliberate astronaut touchdown. As a substitute of touchdown on the moon on Artemis III, NASA hopes to take action on Artemis IV.
3. OpenAI introduced it has struck a cope with the Protection Division to supply its know-how for categorised networks. The event got here shortly after the president banned the bogus intelligence firm Anthropic.

This text was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.