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Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran.

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  • Middle East

Israel strikes Iran and braces for retaliation

Israel launched an airstrike on Iran overnight. Blasts were heard in the capital Tehran around 3am local time. Israel's defense ministry warned it expects missile and drone retaliation.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • James Hider and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
National Guard stand outside buildings this week in Los Angeles.

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  • News

Appeals court blocks earlier ruling, allows Trump to command California Guard for now

A federal judge had ruled that Trump violated the law and had to turn control of the California National Guard back to the state Friday. But an appeals court put that on hold until a hearing on an appeal can be held next week.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Laura Fitzgerald
A new timeless voice: Los Angeles singer-songwriter Annahstasia.

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  • Music

The best new albums out June 13

Annahstasia enters the chat. The Cure reimagines a lost world. Mary Halvorson demonstrates why she's a MacArthur genius. WRTI's Nate Chinen joins Stephen Thompson to share their favorite albums out June 13.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Thompson and
  • Nate Chinen
Secretary of Homeland Security  Kristi Noem held a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. She vowed to continue the immigration raids that have led to days of protests in the city and accusations that the Trump Administration is abusing its power.

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  • USPS

DHS vows immigration raids will continue as resistance mounts

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration will continue to build up its deportation operation in Los Angeles. Nationwide protests are planned for this weekend.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Adrian Florido and
  • Liz Baker
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (second right) listens to the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, as he visits an exhibition of Iran's nuclear achievements in Tehran, Iran, April 9.

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  • Middle East

Trump warns a strike on Iran 'could very well happen' if no nuclear deal is signed

President Trump warned that a "massive" war could break out in the Middle East over Iran's nuclear program, after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Iran wasn't complying with its nonproliferation duties.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Jackie Northam and
  • James Hider
The Department of Health and Human Services notified 400 laid off CDC workers on Wednesday that their reduction in force had been "revoked."

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  • Investigations

More than 400 CDC staff may be called back to work after being laid off in April

Laid off workers were told their notices of an upcoming reduction in force were "revoked." Officials didn't explain why HHS appeared to be restoring hundreds of jobs it previously called duplicative.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner
Legislation in Congress would claw back two years of funding for the public media system, along with money for foreign aid programs.

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  • Politics

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media

The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • David Folkenflik
A protester holds a banner and shouts at a Kenyan police officer during a demonstration over the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody. June 12 2025

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  • Africa

Protests erupt in Kenya's capital over blogger's death in police custody

Demonstrators take to the streets in Kenya's capitol over the suspicious death of a popular blogger in police custody — a flashpoint of outrage in a country still reeling from last year's deadly crackdown on anti-tax protests.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Igunza
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, from left, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, and Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. For Republicans, the hearing is a chance to amplify an issue important to President Donald Trump and perhaps regain control of the sanctuary narrative after DHS published a list of jurisdictions it identified as hostile to immigration law enforcement, and then pulled it down a…

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  • National

Denounced by GOP lawmakers, blue state governors defend immigration policies

GOP lawmakers on Thursday blasted Democratic immigration policies as coddling violent criminals. Democrats portrayed Trump's escalating migrant sweeps as a dangerous assault on civil liberties.

June 12, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
Sen. Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, is removed from the room after interrupting a news conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 12.

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  • USPS

Democratic Sen. Padilla forcibly removed from DHS press conference in Los Angeles

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed and handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

June 12, 2025
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  • NPR Washington Desk
A plowed field near Brawley, Calif. In recent years, drought, climate change and overuse of the Colorado River have led some farmers to fallow their fields. The federal website climate.gov publishes information about drought conditions, among other climate-related topics. The site will stop being updated at the end of the month.

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  • Climate

A popular climate website will be hobbled, after Trump administration eliminates entire staff

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked eight new members for a panel that helps set national vaccine policies.

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  • Health

RFK Jr. names new slate of vaccine advisers after purging CDC panel

Two days after firing vaccine experts who help set the nation's immunization policies, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has picked eight successors for the CDC panel.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Will Stone and
  • Pien Huang
After working at the Social Security Administration for nearly 35 years, Michele Santa Maria opted to take early retirement fearing she'd be fired as part of the Trump administration's mass layoffs. Now Congress may eliminate a key part of her federal retirement package.

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  • Politics

She served the American people for 35 years. Now her retirement income is on the line

As part of Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill," the House voted to end a retirement supplement aimed at helping federal employees who retire before they're 62.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Brian Wilson in 1965.

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  • Obituaries

Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers and
  • Chloe Veltman
The Boulders development, built in 2006 in Seattle's Green Lake neighborhood, features a mature tree along with a waterfall. The developer also added mature trees salvaged from other developments — placing them strategically to add texture and cooling to the landscaping.

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  • Climate

In Seattle, preserving trees while increasing housing supply is a climate solution

Seattle, along with other cities, is struggling to balance the need for more housing with the preservation and growth of trees that help address the impacts of climate change.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Bellamy Pailthorp and
  • Parker Miles Blohm
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