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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says troop training would have to be cut back if the Pentagon doesn't get the $67 billion in supplemental funds it's requesting from Congress. He also raised concerns about troop pay and weapons that defend against enemy drones and missiles.
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Without these funds, we face critical shortfalls that threaten our ability to also simply pay our service members, rapidly replenish equipment and munitions, and sustain vital operations without disruption.
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Republicans are trying to pass the budget package before lawmakers take a month long break to campaign for the midterm elections. Later this week, the Senate will consider another war powers resolution limiting President Trump's ability to unilaterally wage war. Most Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the conflict. As gas prices spike again, President Trump says he plans to help Lebanon. The US has been trying to get Israeli forces to leave areas where they've been fighting Iranian backed Hezbollah in Southern Leban. As NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, Lebanese President
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Joseph Faoun says his goal is to end the state of hostility between Israel and Lebanon and that he's been looking forward to this White House visit.
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Meeting such a great president like yourself,
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that's a very nice thing. See, he knows how to get to me.
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Israel occupies large parts of southern Lebanon where it's fighting Iranian backed Hezbollah. Under a U S. Mediated pilot program, the Israelis have begun to hand off some small areas to the Lebanese armed forces. Aoun calls his country's military military the backbone of stability and is asking for more U.S. support. President Trump didn't offer specifics but says he will help a lot. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
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A software error in New Jersey led to more than 6,000 non citizens being registered to vote. As NPR's Miles Parks reports, the state says the issue has been resolved, but such errors have been shown to fuel conspiracy theories.
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The software error meant that thousands of people who answered no to the question are you a US Citizen at a DMV with were still registered to vote anyway. New Jersey's Governor Mikey Sherrill called the problem serious, but she also said fewer than 400 of the mistaken registrants actually voted and the erroneous registrations have now been removed as well. These sorts of bureaucratic errors aren't unheard of. Oregon dealt with a similar issue in 2024, but non citizens have never been shown to register on purpose in anything but very small numbers. Still, experts expect these sorts of errors to be spotlighted by those looking to cast out on the entire election system this fall. Most Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington.
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The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60 year old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports to the Equal Employment opportunity Commission. The EEOC's Republican majority rescinded the data collection requirement today. It's now subject to a 30 day public comment period. This is NPR News. The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists. Anthea M. Hartig told a House oversight subcommittee today the report does not fairly represent the museum's work. The report was released on July 4 and criticized the museum as not telling history in an inspiring and unifying way. A new NASA telescope set to launch next month might give us insights into black holes. Scott Maccioni from member station WYPR explains what scientists look for with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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The hardest part about observing black holes is that they're black and hard to see. Even on a high resolution telescope. The best way to look for them is to look at the stars they're shredding apart with their massive gravitational pulls. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on August 30, partly to detect black holes that existed up to 11 billion years ago. Mitchell Carman, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is the lead on the study.
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Studying black holes is really studying the most extreme parts of physics, and it's all a part of trying to understand how the world works, even in the biggest and in the smallest scales.
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The Roman telescope will have the same resolution as the Hubble telescope, but with a much larger field of view. For NPR News, I'm Scott Masioni.
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In Baltimore, a goat named Goldie has been accompanying crews fighting a small wildfire in Colorado. The Colorado Springs fire says Goldie led firefighters to the fire area and helped with fuel mitigation along the way by chomping on leaves. This is NPR News.
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