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Elias Rodriguez, who’s suspected of killing two Israeli Embassy staff exterior a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged with first-degree homicide, the homicide of overseas officers and different crimes. Legislation enforcement officers are persevering with to analyze the assault as a attainable hate crime. In keeping with the affidavit, Rodriguez flew from his Chicago residence to the nation’s capital on Tuesday, the day earlier than the assault. He additionally bought a ticket for the museum occasion, which was a mixer for younger diplomats, simply three hours earlier than it started.
A brief memorial exterior the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.
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- 🎧 NPR’s Jennifer Ludden stories to Up First that going ahead, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith stated there will probably be extra regulation enforcement officers round faith-based organizations, colleges, and locations just like the Jewish Neighborhood Heart. The couple that was killed was Yaron Lishinsky, a German and Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, who grew up in a Kansas Metropolis suburb. A good friend of Milgrim’s knowledgeable Luden that she took the job on the embassy after Hamas attacked Israel a 12 months and a half in the past, as she wished to fight what she sensed was an increase in antisemitism with “diplomacy, with love, with intelligence.”
The Trump administration has revoked Harvard College’s means to enroll worldwide college students. This determination, communicated in a letter to the college, impacts at present enrolled worldwide college students. Harvard, which has been in a months-long dispute with President Trump, says the federal government’s actions are “illegal.”
- 🎧 The letter despatched to Harvard stated the administration is terminating its pupil change certification, which implies the varsity can not sponsor pupil visas. NPR’s Elissa Nadworny stories that almost 7,000 worldwide college students attend Harvard, which accounts for roughly 25% of the coed physique. One senior on the faculty expressed fear that she would not be capable of graduate subsequent week and others are involved about fall semester plans. Low enrollment of worldwide college students may have a massive affect on the U.S. economic system, as they contributed over $43 billion final 12 months, in line with a report final 12 months.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court docket granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to fireplace the heads of two impartial businesses. The fired people are Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Advantage Methods Safety Board. The 6-3 ruling is technically non permanent, however it signifies how the upper court docket views the extent of the president’s energy.
- 🎧 When creating the bipartisan businesses, Congress wrote into regulation that their members can solely be fired for trigger, like neglect of responsibility, NPR’s Andrea Hsu says. SCOTUS acknowledged that the Structure provides the president the ability to fireplace officers who assist him perform his duties, with solely slim exceptions. The ruling is not definitive. Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent that it’s not simply somebody’s job at stake, however the very concept that Congress embraced when it created impartial businesses. Wilcox and Harris warned that if the court docket discovered Trump had the ability to take away them, nothing would cease him from firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
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T is a world pupil from Columbia College.
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Worldwide college students within the U.S. are grappling with a tough determination: ought to they specific their views on the battle in Gaza or stay silent? Federal judges have blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport some noncitizen college college students primarily based on their feedback concerning the battle in Gaza. Nevertheless, the federal government has indicated it would proceed to cancel some college students’ visas, citing nationwide safety considerations. NPR’s Adrian Florido lately spoke with two worldwide graduate college students within the remaining weeks of their tutorial packages who determined to proceed talking out regardless of the chance of shedding their visas and being detained or deported. The 2 college students mentioned how that call impacted their lives and plans for the longer term.
Weekend picks
Try what NPR is watching, studying and listening to this weekend:
🍿 Motion pictures: In Friendship, a deeply unusual and intense man develops a troubled friendship along with his new neighbor, a TV weatherman performed by Paul Rudd.
📺 TV: The 2-part HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself options footage and hundreds of images from the late Paul Reubens’ life and profession. Reubens is the performer who created the long-lasting Pee-wee Herman character.
📚 Books: There are a number of nice fiction and nonfiction titles being printed this summer season. As a part of the Books We Love sequence, listed below are 17 of these books NPR critics cannot wait to learn.
🎵 Music: Stereolab returns with a brand new album for the primary time in 15 years. Robert Moore of 90.9 The Bridge in Kansas Metropolis joins Stephen Thompson to speak concerning the group’s new music and the opposite greatest albums out this week.
🎭 Theater: The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! gives a reimagined portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln, depicting her as a girl who has developed an dependancy to alcohol in her determined pursuit of turning into a cabaret star. Cole Escola, who wrote the play and stars as Mary, discusses the present’s success with Contemporary Air.
🍽️ Meals: Principally Meatless: Inexperienced Up Your Plate With out Completely Ditching the Meat, a brand new cookbook from America’s Check Kitchen, options largely meatless recipes that style, appear and feel fairly meaty.
❓ Quiz: When you love a problem, this quiz may very well be for you. I discovered myself with an “OK” rating, however I imagine you are able to do higher than I did. Put your information to the take a look at.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
FILE – Jony Ive attend The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute profit gala celebrating the opening of the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Type” exhibition on Monday, Could 5, 2025, in New York. (Photograph by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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- OpenAI is buying io, a startup based by former Apple designer Jony Ive, in an effort to create new AI-enabled units.
- Loving Day is widely known on June 12, commemorating the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated all state legal guidelines in opposition to interracial marriage within the U.S. We might love to listen to from individuals in interracial relationships. Your story may very well be featured in our June 8 e-newsletter.
- Jim Irsay, the longtime proprietor and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts and a prolific rock-and-roll collector, has died at age 65.
This article was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.
