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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, I'm Dale Willman. Despite international calls for a stop in the fighting, Iran and Israel traded more missile attacks on Sunday, and NPR's Greg Myhre says the US military has played a role in the fighting. US warships were already in the eastern Mediterranean

off the western coast of Israel when Israel launched the attack early Friday on Iran. Those ships and the planes on those ships have taken part in the effort to shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles targeting Israel. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed this in an interview with Fox News today and he thanked the US for its support. In Iran meanwhile officials say Israeli attacks on Sunday killed three generals and hit that country's oil refineries. President Trump will be attending the G7 in the Canadian province of Alberta this week. The annual meeting of advanced economies comes as international tensions are high with the fighting between Iran and Israel and the

trade war imposed by Trump. MPRiers Daniel Kurtzleben has more. The White House has said Trump hopes to talk about a range of topics including migration, critical minerals and trade. Trump has imposed tariffs on goods from all fellow G7 members. It is likely that he will talk to other leaders about striking deals on tariffs. Several non-G7 leaders have been invited, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, meaning Trump could have one-on-one conversations with them. Trump's last Canadian G7 ended with him insulting then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over tariffs.

This year's summit may also be tense between the U.S. and Canada, as Trump has repeatedly said he wants the country to be the 51st state. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News. President Trump presided over a controversial military parade in Washington on Saturday while people in scores of cities protested the event as politicizing the armed forces. NPR's Frank Lankford reports from Annapolis, Maryland. The No Kings rally in Maryland's capital featured a George Washington reenactor. He wore a white wig and gave the speech Washington delivered there when he gave up his military command in 1783.

I hereby offer my commission and leave all the employments of public life. The protesters point was that Washington voluntarily gave up military power. While they say Trump is attempting to accrue more by holding a parade they liken to those in autocratic countries like China and Russia. Trump brushed off the criticism, suggesting that military parades are routine in other countries, which is not true. This parade was the first of its kind in the U.S. since 1991. Frank Langford, NPR News, Annapolis, Maryland.

Flash flooding in West Virginia this weekend has killed at least five people in the northern part of the state. Rescue crews meanwhile are searching for three other people who remain missing. The flooding was caused by torrential rains with totals of 2.5 to 4 inches falling within about half an hour on Saturday night. Cars were washed away and some people escaped the rising waters by climbing into trees. You're listening to NPR News. Authorities in India have begun to return the remains of victims from last week's plane

crash to their relatives. The accident was one of India's worst aviation disasters. An Air India flight crashed right after takeoff and killed at least 270 people, including at least 29 who were on the ground when passengers survived the crash. Survivors of the 2017 London high-rise fire that killed 72 people have marked the eighth anniversary of that tragedy, Vicki Barker reports from London. Remembering the victims at one of the church services held in the shadow of Grenfell Tower. The dead came from 19 national backgrounds. An official inquiry found a chain of failures by government and the private sector left

residents living in a 24-story tinderbox. Police and prosecutors say any criminal charges are at least a year away. Saturday evening, survivors and loved ones staged a silent march to the building, likely the last time the anniversary will be marked in this way. Later this year, crews will be dismantling the high-rise, a process expected to take two years. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. How to Train Your Dragon soared at the North American box offices this weekend, bringing in 83 million dollars in its debut on the big screen.

The film is about an unlikely relationship between a young viking and a dragon. It claimed the top spot from Lilo and Stitch, which brought in $15 million. It had topped the charts for three weeks. And in third, it was The Materialist with $12 million, Mission Impossible came in fourth. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. This is Ira Glass with This American Life. Each week on our show, we choose a theme, tell different stories on that theme. All right, I'm just going to stop right there.

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