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The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media. The rescissions package now moves on to the Senate. This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it. Please take a stand for public media today at GoACPR.org. Thank you. Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua-Helisa Icautau. Officials have named a suspect in the shooting that targeted two lawmakers at their homes in Minnesota, killing one state representative and her husband,

and wounding a state senator and his wife. And Pérez-Megh Anderson reports the suspect is still at large. According to authorities, the suspect officials are seeking is 57-year-old Vance Bolter. They urged anyone who believes they have seen him to consider him armed and dangerous and to call 911. Authorities have yet to determine a motive for the attack that killed Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. They did indicate that they found a list of individuals inside Bolter's car that included Hoffman, Hortman, and other lawmakers. Authorities

also indicated that they found no King's flyers in the car, a reference to the anti-Trump protests happening around the country Saturday. Minnesota state officials urged residents in the state to not attend those protests as a result. Meg Anderson, NPR News. The U.S. Army celebrated its 250th anniversary today in Washington, D.C. More than 6,000 troops attended, with tanks rolling in Washington, DC. President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke briefly at the close of the parade, and Paris' Frank Langford is at the National

Mall. People wearing American flag shirts are pressed up against a fence here. As tanks roll by, they're cheering them on. Tanks are sometimes revving their engines. And the parade really has the feel of almost like a military festival. There are a lot of MAGA hats, but there are even more American flags here. And Piers Franklin fit. Cities across the country today are seeing rallies in protest of President Trump's immigration policies.

In Los Angeles, and Piers Liz Baker reports, demonstrators there hope to show the administration that they will resist Trump's attempts to paint the week's protests there as violent uprisings. Thousands of people have taken to the streets of downtown LA in what city officials expect will be the largest of all the protests this week. In a park across from City Hall, a huge baby Trump balloon slowly inflates. Monica Mendes waits for her photo op with the balloon saying she had to come out after seeing footage of California Senator Alex Padilla being handcuffed at a Department

of Homeland Security press conference two days ago. If they're doing this to representatives, what are they doing to people? Melissa Wellman came out to stand up for the city's immigrants, people like her grandmother who came here from Indonesia. Just wanted to make sure to represent our family and people that don't have a voice. She says she hopes the message of resistance will make its way from the streets of LA to the White House. Liz Baker and PR News, Los Angeles. This is NPR. NPR News, Los Angeles. This is NPR. It is early morning in the Middle East and Israel and Iran are again launching missiles at each other. The Israeli military says more

air defense systems were fired to shoot down missiles from Iran and there are reports of fresh fires and flames visible in the sky over Tehran. Israel's military now says it killed nine of Iran's top nuclear scientists since its days-old strikes targeting Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran's UN ambassador says at least 78 people were killed and more than 320 people were injured. In Dubai, nuclear talks between Iran and the U.S. that were scheduled for Sunday in Oman are now canceled. A former assistant of Sean Combs testified in his trial Friday. The assistant is part of the government's racketeering case against Combs and Pérez Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports. And a warning, this report contains

mention of sexual coercion. Jonathan Perez worked for Sean Combs from 2021 until September, 2024. On the witness stand, Perez said part of his job included obtaining drugs for Combs and setting up hotel rooms for quote, king nights. Other witnesses have testified these were drug fueled sexual performances in which Combs allegedly coerced women

to have sex with male prostitutes. Perez said he did not know the details of what happened in these rooms and considered it Combs' private life. He also said one of the alleged victims, a woman who testified under the pseudonym Jane, did not seem hesitant about participating in these nights. Another former assistant of Combs will testify next week. This is NPR News. This message comes from NYU Langone. The NYU Langone Health app gives you access to your Next week. This is NPR News.