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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Venezuelan officials say at least two dozen security officers were killed in the surprise U.S. attack Saturday to seize the former leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife. This is the first official death toll by Venezuelan officials. Cuban authorities previously said 32 of their personnel were killed in the attack too. NPR's Kerry Kahn reports. Venezuelan officials are toughening their rhetoric against the U.S. attack in announcing the death toll Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarik William Saab, said that the, quote, war crimes against

officers and civilians would be investigated. The hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello joined pro-government marchers in a large boister rally in Caracas condemning what he called the kidnapping of Venezuela's rightful leader. While acting President Delci Rodriguez decried the, quote, terrible military aggression of the U.S. and in an apparent rebuke of President Trump's threats she stay in line with U.S. demands, she said, quote, personally to those who threaten me, my destiny is not determined by them, but by God. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Bogota, Columbia. Partisan divides over the significance of the January 6th insurrection are on display on this fifth anniversary of the violent attack. Democrats marked the day with events. The Trump administration

unveiled a website that insists rioters were peaceful that day, and most Republican lawmakers sides stepped the anniversary. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports. House Democrats heard testimony from a former prosecutor who tried cases against the rioters and a former Capitol Police officer. They also heard from 72-year-old Pamela Hemphill of Idaho. She was among those convicted for participating in the riot, but she declined clemency from President Trump and teared up as she addressed the Capitol Police officer also testifying. I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart. for being part of the mob that put you and so many officers in danger. Many of the rioters have not been apologetic.

To mark the anniversary, some retraced their steps that day from the White House to the Capitol. Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington. The Department of Health and Human Services has changed the recommended vaccine schedule for children, removing many shots that have been deemed safe. Former CDC director Richard Besser says the change will lead to confusion and potentially death. I took care of patients before most of those vaccines were either on the list or recommended. And I saw children hospitalized.

I've seen children die for many of these diseases that are now no longer in the recommended column. Now vaccines for diseases like flu, hepatitis A, and B, and meningitis are only recommended for those at high risk or after consultation with a health care provider. This is NPR News from Washington. Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a settlement project that would effectively cut the West Bank into. The international community overwhelmingly considers settlement construction in the West Bank to be illegal and an obstacle to peace in the region. The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld abortion access in the deep red state, but as Wyoming Public Radio's Hannah Mersbach reports, the battle may not be over. The majority of justices ruled that two 20, 23 laws banning most medical and procedural abortions violate the state constitution,

which gives Wyomingites the right to make their own health care decisions. Jackson Holby, G.YN. Jovenina Anthony, says this is a big win. You know, I don't have to lie to patients about what they can and can't do. I don't have to send them out of state. I don't have to figure out how to fly them somewhere. But state lawmakers say they'll put a constitutional. amendment before voters as early as next fall to make abortion illegal in nearly all cases. Despite the Republican majority's efforts, the practices remain legal in the state since the U.S. Supreme

Court overturned Roe v. Wade. For NPR News, I'm Hannah Mersbach in Jackson, Wyoming. An AI-generated report in the Heber City, Utah Police Department mistakenly reported that an officer had been turned into a frog. The program generates police reports from body camera footage, A police sergeant told Fox 13 in Salt Lake City that the software had picked up a movie playing in the background, the princess, and the frog. I'm Ryland Barton. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.