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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A California jury finds Meta and Google are to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $3 million in a rare verdict holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role in fueling a youth mental health crisis. The jury also decided that Meta and Google's actions should trigger punitive damages, which means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the ju decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi trillion dollar companies for their conduct. TSA staffing shortage at major airports in the US Is growing more severe, the result of a political fight over DHS funding. NPR's Barbara Sprunt with the latest.
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Senate Republicans sent Democrats another potential deal yesterday, but top Democrats said it didn't have the significant reforms that they want to see. What's new is the potential to fund DHS minus ICE's detention and deportation oper. And this would allow the rest of the department to get funded, including those TSA officers currently working without pay.
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Barbara Sprunt reporting. Kuwait says a drone hit a fuel tank at its international airport overnight, causing a large explosion and fire. That airport and others in the region have been attacked multiple times by Iranian drones in the war. NPR's Aya Batrawi reports.
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In addition to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia says it intercepted more missiles and drones overnight targeting its oil rich eastern region with debris falling on homes there. The UN Human rights chief Volker Turk says US And Israeli attacks are hitting homes, hospitals, schools and cultural sites in Iran. He also says Iranian attacks are striking energy and water infrastructure engulf Arab countries.
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Many of the strikes in this conflict raise serious concerns under international law, which prohibits attacks targeting civilians and their infrastructure.
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And he says the UN assesses the war has already caused some $63 billion in economic losses across the Arab region. Aya Batrawi, NPR News Dub the Missouri
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Supreme Court's upholding a new congressional map designed to net Republicans another House seat in the midterms. Here's St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum.
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The state's high court ruled 4, 3 that even though there's no explicit authorization for mid decade redistricting, there's no explicit prohibition either. GOP Attorney General Katherine Hanaway says that's a clear win for Republican backers of the redistricting plan.
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The map can be redrawn mid decade.
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Attorney Chuck Hatfield represented redistricting opponents in court. He noted the new map could be subject to a referendum this year and may never go into effect.
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This was a battle in a bigger war. It was a major battle.
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Missouri was one of several GOP led states that redrew their congressional maps to favor Republicans at the behest of President Trump. States like California responded by redrawing their lines to help Democrats.
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That's Jason Rosenbaum reporting. It's NPR News. Today's show host Savannah Guthrie is opening up about the agony she says her family's been enduring daily since her 84 year old mother went missing from her Arizona home more than seven weeks ago. In an interview with her colleague Oda Kotb, a portion of which was previewed today, Guthrie tearfully asks anyone with information about the disappearance a step forward. This is the host's first interview since her mother Nancy went missing. Investigators say Nancy Guthrie might have been kidnapped, but clues remain scarce. Kidnappings for ransom are relatively rare in the US the numbers are not tracked by the Justice Department, but the Guthrie case has brought attention to the matter. A network of families that has helped scientists understand Alzheimer's disease is facing an uncertain future. NPR's John Hamilton explains the families carry
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very rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's to appear in middle age. For nearly two decades, the National Institutes of Health has funded research on these families through a group called the Dominantly inherited Alzheimer's Network. Dr. Tammy Benzinger of Wash U Medicine says it's unclear whether that will continue amid cuts in research by the Trump administration.
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The network that's been built up without funding, all of that would fall apart.
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In 2025, the NIH rejected a grant application that would have brought about $13 million in the first year. Instead, the network got about 8 million and no money for international sites, which account for about half of its families. The current funding is scheduled to on June 30th. John Hamilton, NPR News.
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The Dow is up 354 points. It's NPR.
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