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Korva Coleman
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. A member of Israel's security cabinet says that Israel had informed the United States even before the start of the war that it intended to strike Iran. This was over Iran's efforts to move parts of its nuclear and missile programs underground. Itai Stern has more from Tel Aviv.
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Itay Stern
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. Asked about those comments, Israeli Cabinet member Eli Cohen said Israel had made clear that what it was seeing in Iran is could not continue. He said Iran was planning to move its ballistic missiles and parts of its nuclear program underground in a way that would make them harder for Israel and the United States to strike. We could not agree to that, cohen said. Therefore, we had to act. For NPR News, I'm Itay Stern in Tel Aviv.
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Korva Coleman
It is Election Day today in a handful of states. These are the first major primary contests for the 2026 midterm elections, including in North Carolina and Texas. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports on what is at stake.
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Stephen Fowler
Texas and North Carolina are large states with diverse populations that will provide an early glimpse of how voters are feeling about the current political landscape. A handful of incumbent lawmakers like North Carolina Democratic Representative Valerie Fuchsi, Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn and others face serious primary challengers. A number of bases could be competitive in the general election and help determine which party controls each chamber of Congress. Primary results and voter turnout in these states will set the stage for a midterm election where affordability and immigration enforcement are key issues. Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
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Korva Coleman
It is also primary Election Day in Arkansas. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. This is her first hearing since two protesters were shot and killed in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers in January. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has partially shut down. Democratic lawmakers are demanding changes in how immigration officers operate before they will pass a funding measure for the agency. Noem is castigating the Democrats. The latest Democrat led shutdown of DHS is reckless. It's unnecessary and it undermines the American national security and it harms the men and women who work at DHS and their families. Democrats have issued 10 demands to change the behavior of immigration officers, but Republicans have pushed back on some of them. That includes a Democratic demand that immigration agents stop wearing masks to conceal their identities. On Wall street, the Dow was down more than 1100 points. This is NPR. Police in Austin, Texas, say a third person has died from wounds in a shooting early Sunday morning. The FBI is helping in the investigation, and agents are trying to learn if the shooting is a potential terrorism attack. Austin police shot and killed the gunman at the scene. They say he fired into a crowded bar. More than a dozen other people were wounded. The Federal Aviation Administration says a small plane crashed into the Hudson river in New York last night. The FAA says two people aboard were able to escape and and they swam to shore. The crash was more than 60 miles north of New York City. The origins of human's inclination for alcohol may be visible in our primate relatives. Reporter Ari Daniel explains.
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Ari Daniel
When fruits ripen, they ferment and produce alcohol. For some primates, that smell may be a shortcut to finding sugar and calories. But there wasn't much evidence the chimps were actually consuming the alcohol. So a team of researchers, including UC Berkeley PhD student Alexei Mars, sampled urine from wild Ugandan chimps. At least 10 of the animal's urine contained a concentration equivalent in humans to having had one or two drinks. It's plausible that our ancestral diet may have had similar alcohol just baked into our everyday existence, perhaps leading to our modern attraction to the stuff, except that today we can produce and consume it at much higher concentrations. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel again on Wall Street.
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Korva Coleman
The Dow is now down more than a thousand points. This is npr.
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