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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. A rare military parade will be held in Washington, D.C. tonight to celebrate the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But as NPR's Frank Langfit reports, some are criticizing the event as reminiscent of similar displays in China and Russia. Lou Goldstein is a military analyst with defense priorities, a Washington think tank. He says the Army deserves a big birthday bash, but he'd prefer it was more historical and less political.

If I were to plan this, I would like the Army to parade through the Concord and Lexington and maybe down to Bunker Hill, right, where some of these historic events were rather than through Washington, D.C., which does have some kind of echo of these parades in many authoritarian countries. To that point, protests against Trump are scheduled across the country today. The protests are called No Kings. Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington.

Those protests today follow demonstrations in response to federal immigration raids. In Chicago, reporter Sarah Karp of Member Station WBEZ has more. There's been rallies ramping up ever since the clashes began in Los Angeles and the National Guard was called in. But even before that, there was a lot of angst in the city as immigration agents showed up at court hearings and at regular immigration check-ins. Tuesday night was the biggest demonstration this week, drawing more than a thousand people. In several cities, elected officials are calling

on citizens to protest peacefully or risk consequences for violence, destruction, and disruptive actions like blocking roadways. Expat's overseas are also demonstrating against the military parade through Washington. A couple of hundred showed up in Restorers Square in Lisbon, Portugal. Fascism! Not in America! Similar expat protests are being held across Europe, including those in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece and Denmark. The Israeli military continues strikes on Iran following overnight explosions at Tehran's airport. Iranian media say there have been also more attacks on the city of Tabriz. Yesterday, Israeli planes struck Iranian nuclear and military sites. Iranian

state media say 60 civilians were also killed in an Israeli airstrike. The BBC's Sebastian Usher has more. The air defense system, I think, is an attempt to clear a path to the Iranian capital to essentially make it so that the Israeli Air Force will be able to strike at will. We've also heard from the Iranians that two more senior commanders have been killed. The Israeli military has said that they have assassinated nine senior Iranian nuclear scientists. That's three more than we were hearing about yesterday. They say they've attacked more than 150 targets in Iran since this campaign began. The BBC's Sebastian Asher in Jerusalem.

This is NPR. In two shootings in Minnesota, officials now say State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband have been fatally shot in what's described as a politically motivated shooting. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also shot they have survived. Israel's attack on Iran sparked a sell-off in the stock market at week's end. NPR's Scott Horsley reports all the major market indexes closed in the red. Crude oil prices jumped and stock prices tumbled after Israel launched airstrikes on Iran's Sand, and PR Scott Horsley reports all the major market indexes closed in the red.

Crude oil prices jumped and stock prices tumbled. After Israel launched airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 770 points on Friday. Stock in the Dow component Boeing also fell this week after the deadly crash of a 787 Dreamliner in India. There was some good news for investors. Inflation was relatively tame last month as falling gasoline prices helped keep the overall cost of living in India. There was some good news for investors. Inflation was relatively tame last month as falling gasoline prices helped keep the overall cost of living in check. So far, the inflation numbers show little sign that President Trump's tariffs are pushing prices up, although forecasters say that could change. For the week, the S&P 500 index fell four-tenths of a percent, the Nasdaq fell

six-tenths, and the Dow dropped one-and-a-third percent. Scott Horsley, MPI News, Washington. A federal appeals court voted 8-2 not to reconsider its ruling to uphold a $5 million civil judgment against Donald Trump in the case of advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. A jury had found in a 2023 trial that in 1996, in what started out as a friendly department store encounter, Trump had sexually abused the writer. Trump's lawyers had petitioned the full appellate court to rehear the case. In the Friday decision, the panel said that would not be appropriate.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.