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Immediately’s high tales
Two workers members of Israel’s embassy in Washington, D.C., had been shot useless outdoors the Capital Jewish Museum final night time, in response to police. Police say the suspect chanted “free, free Palestine” after being detained. The victims had been named by the embassy as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim.
On this picture taken from video offered by WJLA, a spectator watches as regulation enforcement works the scene after two workers members of the Israeli embassy in Washington had been shot and killed outdoors the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, Might 21, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Becky Sullivan tells Up First that American and Israeli politicians have condemned the assault. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the capturing on rising antisemitism and incitement towards Israel. Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, mentioned the couple was about to be engaged and the person purchased the ring this week with plans to suggest subsequent week in Jerusalem. Police have tentatively recognized the shooter as Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old from Chicago. The FBI says they’re investigating the capturing as a attainable hate crime and act of terrorism.
In the meantime, in Gaza, a trickle of assist has entered the enclave after Israel’s practically three-month-long complete blockade of every little thing from meals to medication. The UN says it hasn’t reached these in want.
- 🎧 In his first press convention with Israeli journalists in 5 months, Netanyahu defended increasing the struggle, NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi stories. He acknowledged that his plan is to push all of northern Gaza into an space to the south. The south is nearly solely destroyed and has only a few sources. Netanyahu mentioned he can be prepared to finish the struggle beneath the situations that the hostages come house, Hamas lays down its arms, and President Trump’s plan is carried out. Trump’s proposal is to completely displace Palestinians from Gaza. In a press release, Hamas condemned Netanyahu’s pledge to Trump’s plan, saying it undermined Washington’s position as a “mediator.”
Home Republicans handed an enormous invoice, which was up to date yesterday within the hopes of advancing a lot of Trump’s home agenda by the top of the week. The invoice, if handed by the Senate, would lengthen the president’s 2017 tax cuts earlier than they expire on the finish of the 12 months and appears to make good on a few of his huge marketing campaign guarantees, like no taxes on suggestions or additional time. The sweeping laws is over 1,000 pages lengthy. Here is a short have a look at the newest model.
- 🎧 Tweaks had been made to the invoice to win over holdouts, together with transferring up new work necessities for Medicaid to subsequent 12 months, NPR’s Claudia Grisales says. The holdouts stalled the momentum of the plan as a result of considerations it might add trillions to the U.S. deficit. The plan nonetheless has a protracted approach to go as Senate Republicans have raised considerations about it. Grisales says they’ve made it clear they plan to make plenty of adjustments to the Home invoice.
The Justice Division is stepping again from its circumstances towards police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., reversing its earlier stance on using consent decrees to advertise accountability inside regulation enforcement businesses. This choice comes simply days earlier than the anniversary of George Floyd’s homicide in Minnesota practically 5 years in the past by the hands of Derek Chauvin, a white police officer.
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Illustrations © 2025 by Daniel Salmieri and Sophia Haas / Rocky Pond Books
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Subsequent to Me is a kids’s guide in regards to the easy pleasure of a kid and a mother’s stroll house from college and the issues which are seen alongside the best way. When Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas turned mother and father, they seen that they had been noticing extra. The idea impressed their first youngsters’ guide collectively. The guide is shiny, happy-looking and has plenty of texture included. Salmieri painted a number of the paper to seem like concrete for the town scenes, and Haas pulled from her work with marbling and pure dyes. Check out a number of the photographs from the guide right here.
Deep dive
Folks take part in a candlelight vigil in entrance of the principle workplaces of the Facilities for Illness Management in Atlanta on March 28. On Thursday HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced plans to chop 10,000 jobs throughout the company.
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An NPR evaluation discovered that since Trump assumed energy in January, lots of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s major channels for speaking pressing well being info to the general public have gone silent. Well being alerts relating to illness outbreaks haven’t been despatched out since March. Moreover, the CDC’s major social media channels are actually beneath the management of the Division of Well being and Human Providers, and most of those channels have gone over a month with out sharing new content material. Here is what else the evaluation discovered:
- ➡️ Since HHS approval was instituted as a requirement for posting, virtually no newsletters have been despatched to tens of hundreds of people that subscribe to them. The final replace was despatched out on March 18, regardless of outbreaks of salmonella and listeria being acknowledged this month on the CDC’s web site.
- ➡️ Two CDC staff knowledgeable NPR that lower than half of the general public well being posts they’ve despatched to HHS for approval have been cleared for publication on social media. This contains posts that embody primary info on latest illness outbreaks.
- ➡️ When CDC publications have gone out, some have been delayed or have had lacking info. A latest launch relating to the prevalence of HIV within the U.S. included a warning that it “does not include data on PrEP coverage.”
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Southwest Airways planes are seen at Baltimore Washington Worldwide Thurgood Marshall Airport in 2021. The airline is requiring passengers utilizing transportable chargers in-flight to make them seen to the crew.
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- Beginning Might 28, Southwest Airways will require passengers to maintain battery packs and transportable charging gadgets seen whereas utilizing them through the flight.
- Jon Hegwood was a teen mother or father when he advised his highschool principal, Billy Barnett, that he deliberate to use for a GED and drop out of college. Nevertheless, Barnett, his unsung hero, satisfied Hegwood to earn his diploma by providing him a deal that set him off on a path he’s actually grateful for.
- The “tush push” lives on. The controversial soccer play didn’t obtain sufficient votes yesterday from NFL groups to ban it.
This text was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.
