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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Senate Republicans are seeking to bring an end to the shutdown of the Homeland Security department, approving a $70 billion funding blueprint after remaining in session overnight. The resolution would fund the ICE and Border Patrol agencies for the next three years. Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to get around Democratic demands for guardrails on immigration enforcement operations. The the measure now goes to the House. The Senate has once again blocked a Democratic led measure to limit President Trump's war powers in Iran. NPR's Claudia Grosales reports that Democrats say they will force the vote again until Trump officials publicly testify on the conflict.
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Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin says it's long past time for Congress to put a check on President Trump's lead war. Despite the ceasefire, Baldwin argues fallout from the conflict continues to build.
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The president said that the war would be over in a matter of days. We are coming up on the two month mark with no real end in sight.
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Baldwin is one of several Democrats forcing the war powers votes to put Republicans on record. Only Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul defected to join Democrats who have argued for an end to the costly and unpopular conflict. And while most Republicans remain loyal to Trump support, some have warned their position could shift at the war 60 day mark at the end of this month. Claude Salis, NPR News, the Capitol Tensions
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are again increasing in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran attacked at least three ships near the strait Wednesday and seized two of them. Jim Walsh is a security analyst at mit. He explains the significance behind the Iranian attacks.
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Two reasons. One, it need only attack a ship here and a ship there to remind those who want to ship oil or other goods in the strait that they're at risk if they do so. They don't have to attack every ship. They just have to attack a couple, one here and one there. And I would say the second reason is that it offers them a way to achieve a sort of tit for tat response to the US Seizure of the two ships done by the US Ships engaged in the naval blockade.
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The White House says a new deadline for the cease fire President Trump has extended has not been set. And with talks stalled, Iranian President Mosoud Pezeshkian says the US Blockade of Iranian ports and breach of commitments are the main obstacles. Wildfires in the Southeast intensifying some of the biggest blazes burning along Georgia's coast and around Jacksonville, Florida. They burned over 33 square miles in Georgia and destroyed more than 50 homes. Officials in Denmark say at least 16 people were injured when two trains collided this morning north of Copenhagen. For four people reported in critical condition. The collision prompted a massive emergency response. This is NPR. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Told senators Wednesday that if President Trump's nominee to lead the CDC is confirmed, she will make decisions on vaccines without political interference. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is a doctor who cast a key vote to confirm Kennedy as health secretary. He pressed Kennedy on Erica Schwartz's nomination during a budget hearing Wednesday. The CDC director has that power now,
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so she will have if she wishes to. If she wishes to make a decision independently of them, she shall be allowed to make that decision independently. That's correct, yes.
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The previous CDC director said Kennedy fired her because she disagreed with its vaccine policies. Tesla reporting surprisingly strong first quarter earnings, although CEO Elon Musk cautioned investors that the company will be spending big in the months ahead. As NPR's Camilla Dominowski reports, Tesla continues to stake its future on new technologies.
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EV sales helped drive the higher than expected profits, but that positive cash flow is dwarfed by the $25 billion Tesla plans to spend this year on things like chips, software and manufacturing lines to build the humanoid robot called Optimus. On the sunny rooftop of the Tesla diner in Los Angeles, Optimus was not scooping popcorn as it's famously done on social media. That kind of disappointed Tesla investor Alan Zhang, but he's still all in on Musk's vision for the future.
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I think Tesla will change the world of human beings.
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And it's that faith, more than any single quarter's earnings, that has driven Tesla's stock price. Camila Dominos Key NPR News, Los Angeles.
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