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Ryland Barton
Details@Capital1.com Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew a ceasefire. The plan creates a number of what a joint statement calls pilot security zones inside Lebanon where Hezbollah militants would be banned. It's not clear how the zones would be created, but the agreement calls for the Lebane army to take full control of those areas. This week, Iranian state news agencies said Iran had stopped communicating with mediators brokering a ceasefire with the US because of Israel's incursion into Lebanon. A bipartisan majority in the Republican led House has voted to end the war with Iran. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports. This was the clearest rebuke yet of President Trump's handling of the conflict and the subsequent fallout.
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Claudia Grisales
New York Democrat Gregory Meeks helped force the vote to end the Iran war that's now 90 days in. He thanked the five Republicans who joined Democrats to get the War Powers Resolution over the finish line.
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We're at the point where you have to put people, the American people over politics.
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Claudia Grisales
One of those Republicans, Pennsylvania's Brian Fitzpatrick, argued once a conflict passed the 60 day mark, it violated the War Powers Act.
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John Ruich
I follow the law. People have a hard time being consistent around here. They apply different rules to different presidents, different wars, different eras. The law is the law.
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Claudia Grisales
For now, the vote remains symbolic. Even if it were to pass in the Senate, too, Trump would be able to veto it. Claudia de Sales, NPR News, the Capitol.
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Ryland Barton
The Senate is debating legislation to fund immigration enforcement agencies after weeks of delay. It comes after Republican leaders stripped $1 billion in funding for White House security in President Trump's ballroom that had been included in an earlier draft. But there are still concerns over a proposed anti weaponization fund for Trump's allies, which acting Attorney General Todd Blanch said yester not moving forward. But Trump suggested today could be resurrected. Democrats and some Republicans have said they won't support the measures. Copper prices are near an all time high in part because of the AI data center boom. That means copper wire theft has been on the rise too. As NPR's John Ruich reports, the phone
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John Ruich
company AT&T says it counted more than 10,400 incidents of copper wire theft last year, some 4,000 of which were in California. In Northern California this year. The company says the numbers are up sharply. AT&T West President Susan Santana says the company has been bolting down manholes, putting alarms in spans of wire, hiring security guards, and is even offering money for information that leads to arrests. The company runs a legacy copper wire network that she says serves only about 3% of its customers. AT&T is hoping to shift customers to other options, although it says state law is holding it back. AT&T recently filed suit against California to be able to wind down its century old copper wire network and and take away a big target of would be copper thieves. John Ruich, NPR News.
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Ryland Barton
Oil prices rose following the latest threats to the U. S. Iran ceasefire. This is NPR News from Washington. The U.S. government has granted a visa to Widenski Pierre, the only member of Haiti's national soccer team living in the Caribbean country. He was awaiting permission to travel for the World Cup. Teammates arrived last week to start preparing. This is only the second time Haiti has qualified for the World Cup. NASA is officially ending one of its Mars missions. As Joe Palko reports, the space agency lost contact with a probe called MAVEN in December last year.
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Joe Palko
MAVEN is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian atmosphere has largely disappeared over the last three to four billion years, a change that turned the planet into the dry, cold place it is today. The spacecraft has been collecting data and sending it to Earth since it went into orbit around Mars more than a decade ago. But last December, a brief radio signal indicated the craft had suddenly started spinning out of control. That meant it was no longer able to point its solar panels towards the sun. And that meant the batteries went dead, making the probe inoperable. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
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Ryland Barton
A rare albino buffalo named after Donald Trump for its distinctive blonde tuft, is drawing a huge crowd at the National Zoo in Bangladesh's. The animal was saved from being slaughtered as part of a religious ritual of sacrifice during the Eid festival. The animal had been already sold, but after widespread public interest, authorities refunded the buyer and kept it in the zoo where it's now the main attraction. US Stocks retreated from their records today. The Dow dropped more than 1%. The S&P 500 fell nearly three quarters of a percent. This is NPR.
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