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At present’s high tales
Two employees members of Israel’s embassy in Washington, D.C., had been shot useless exterior the Capital Jewish Museum final evening, 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 supplied by WJLA, a spectator watches as regulation enforcement works the scene after two employees members of the Israeli embassy in Washington had been shot and killed exterior the Capital Jewish Museum on Wednesday, Could 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, stated 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 potential hate crime and act of terrorism.
In the meantime, in Gaza, a trickle of help has entered the enclave after Israel’s almost three-month-long complete blockade of every 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 warfare, NPR’s Hadeel Al-Shalchi stories. He said 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 assets. Netanyahu stated he can be prepared to finish the warfare beneath the circumstances that the hostages come house, Hamas lays down its arms, and President Trump’s plan is applied. 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 a large 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 yr and appears to make good on a few of his large marketing campaign guarantees, like no taxes on ideas or time beyond regulation. The sweeping laws is over 1,000 pages lengthy. This is a short take a look at the newest model.
- 🎧 Tweaks had been made to the invoice to win over holdouts, together with shifting up new work necessities for Medicaid to subsequent yr, NPR’s Claudia Grisales says. The holdouts stalled the momentum of the plan on account of considerations it may add trillions to the U.S. deficit. The plan nonetheless has a protracted strategy to go as Senate Republicans have raised considerations about it. Grisales says they’ve made it clear they plan to make quite a lot of modifications 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 determination comes simply days earlier than the anniversary of George Floyd’s homicide in Minnesota almost 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
Illustrations © 2025 by Daniel Salmieri and Sophia Haas / Rocky Pond Books/SOURCE TK
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Subsequent to Me is a kids’s e book 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 way in which. When Dragons Love Tacos illustrator Daniel Salmieri and artist Sophia Haas grew to become mother and father, they seen that they had been noticing extra. The idea impressed their first children’ e book collectively. The e book is brilliant, happy-looking and has quite a lot of texture included. Salmieri painted a number of the paper to appear to be concrete for the town scenes, and Haas pulled from her work with marbling and pure dyes. Check out a number of the photos from the e book right here.
Deep dive
Individuals take part in a candlelight vigil in entrance of the principle places of work 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, most of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s essential channels for speaking pressing well being info to the general public have gone silent. Well being alerts concerning illness outbreaks haven’t been despatched out since March. Moreover, the CDC’s main social media channels at the moment are 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. This is what else the evaluation discovered:
- ➡️ Since HHS approval was instituted as a requirement for posting, nearly no newsletters have been despatched to tens of 1000’s 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 consists of posts that embrace primary info on latest illness outbreaks.
- ➡️ When CDC publications have gone out, some have been delayed or have had lacking info. A latest launch concerning the prevalence of HIV within the U.S. included a warning that it “doesn’t embrace knowledge on PrEP protection.”
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 moveable chargers in-flight to make them seen to the crew.
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- Beginning Could 28, Southwest Airways will require passengers to maintain battery packs and moveable charging units seen whereas utilizing them in the course of the flight.
- Jon Hegwood was a teen dad or mum when he advised his highschool principal, Billy Barnett, that he deliberate to use for a GED and drop out of faculty. 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.
