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Shea Stevens
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens. Palestinian health officials now say at least 250 people were killed and hundreds more were wounded in today's Israeli airstrikes across Gaza. NPR's Hadil Al Shalchi reports from Tel Aviv.
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Hadil Al Shalchi
This is the first round of Israeli strikes in Gaza since the first phase of a cease fire deal ended at the beginning of the month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the strikes because Hamas had, quote, repeatedly refused to release all the hostages. No official death toll was reported by the Gaza Health Ministry, but individual hospitals reported some dozen Palestinians killed. The shaky first phase of the ceasefire deal saw 33 hostages held by Hamas released and about 2,000 Palestinian prison freed from Israeli jails. Netanyahu wanted Hamas to accept an extension of the first face to release more hostages, and Hamas insisted on beginning second phase talks which would see a permanent end to the war. Hadil Al Shalchi, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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Shea Stevens
Administration officials insist that President Trump's order to remove planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members is protected under the Alien Enemies Act. But a federal judge says the Justice Department violated a weakened court order to turn around planes headed to El Salvador with the deportees aboard. White House press Secretary Caroline Levitt says it's unclear whether the court order was issued properly.
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Caroline Levitt
There's actually questions about whether a verbal order carries the same weight as a legal order as a written order, and our lawyers are determined to ask and answer those questions in court.
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Shea Stevens
U.S. district Judge James Boasberg is giving government lawyers until noon today to submit a plan for returning the Venezuelan deportees to the U.S. civil rights scholars are expressing concern that the Civil Rights act is being rapidly undone by the Trumpet administration. Npr, Sandia Dirks reports.
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Victor Ray
Civil rights scholars are warning of the consequences of closing civil rights offices and the firing of civil rights investigators and lawyers alongside attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion. Victor Ray is a professor of sociology and American studies at the University of Iowa.
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Caroline Levitt
Civil rights law might still be on the books, but if you don't have anyone doing audits, if you don't have anyone firing people who are systematically discriminating, it doesn't matter because there's no enforcement of the law.
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Victor Ray
The Trump administration argues for colorblind enforcement of civil rights law and says Dei is anti white racism. Sandhya Dierks, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sent letters to 20 major US law firms seeking information on their diversity and employment practices. Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas says those firms may be violating federal civil rights laws. The agency has set up an email address for whistleblowers who have information on EEO diversity. This is npr. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading back to Earth after a nine month stay aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Wilmore and Williams were supposed to spend just several days at the International Space Station, but a Boeing Starliner capsule that ferried them there last June developed mechanical issues and was forced to return. They are heading home aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. Thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend to support a former president who is facing trial on coup charges. NPR's Kerry Kahn reports.
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Kerry Kahn
Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro crowded onto Rio's iconic Copacabana Beach Sporting Brazil's national soccer team's green and yellow jerseys. Many held signs demanding amnesty for Bolsonaro and the hundreds of his followers who've been convicted and many sentenced for rioting Brazil's capital in January 2023. Bolsonaro told the crowd that the charges against him are fiction and he was in the US at the time his supporters stormed the Capitol. He says the government is just trying to stifle free speech and dissent with the attempted coup charges. Brazil's Supreme Court will decide on March 25 whether Bolsonaro and his allies will stand trial. If convicted, he faces decades in prison. Carrie Kann, NPR News.
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Shea Stevens
Peru's president, Dina Bulawarte, has declared a state of emergency and deployed soldiers amid a surge in violence there following the killing of a popular singer. Her decree restricts some rights for 30 days, including freedom of assembly and movement. This is NPR News.
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