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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. Police have just arrested the man suspected of killing two Minnesota lawmakers on Saturday.

57-year-old Vance Belter was found in Sibley County, Minnesota after a manhunt that lasted more than 24 hours. Fighting continued between Iran and Israel on Sunday. NPR's Hadil El-Shaltzi is in Tel Aviv. She says Israel targeted Iran's energy infrastructure. Iran's oil ministry said that a fuel and gasoline depot in North Tehran was hit. So was one of the country's largest oil refineries in Tehran's north. Also two main Iranian energy sites offshore in the south of Iran were also targeted.

And then the Israeli military said that it hit the Mashhad airport in eastern Iran. They said it was the deepest strike in the country that they've done. And you know, President Trump called on Israel and Iran to make a deal and he said that, quote, many calls and meetings now taking place, but neither Iran nor Israel have said anything about those calls or meetings. And so for now, they're both committed to exchanging fire. Iran's health minister says at least 245 people have been killed there since Friday, including three generals who were killed on Sunday. The Department of Homeland Security will reportedly pause its efforts to deport immigrants in the country without legal status

who are working in hotels, restaurants and on farms. That's according to the New York Times and Piers Marliason has more. President Trump's decision to change course on immigration raids came after he posted that he'd been hearing from farmers and hotel owners that quote, our aggressive policies on immigration are taking good longtime workers away that are impossible to replace. About 40% of agriculture workers lack legal status to work in the US. Trump had originally said he would focus on deporting people in the country illegally who have committed crimes, and polls showed that effort was very popular. But expanding the raids to sweep up construction workers, farm workers, and garment workers is very unpopular.

Mara Liason, NPR News. A protester has died after a shooting Saturday at a No Kings protest march in Salt Lake City, Utah from member station KUER. Caroline Ballard reports. The Salt Lake City Police Department says based on preliminary information, two men in high-visibility vests confronted a potential gunman. They allegedly saw 24-year-old Arturo Gamboa separate from the crowd, pull out a rifle, and begin manipulating it. When Gamboa separate from the crowd, pull out a rifle and begin manipulating it. When they approached, he charged the crowd with the rifle raised. One of them fired three

shots. One struck Gamboa and the other hit a bystander. The 39-year-old male bystander was taken to a hospital where he later died. Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd says Gamboa tried to hide among a crowd. The crowd actually pointed him out to law enforcement and their actions were heroic. Gamboa was taken into custody with a minor gunshot wound. Police later recovered a backpack, an AR-15 and a gas mask. For NPR News, I'm Caroline Ballard. And you're listening to NPR News. Peacocks are treasured for their majestic displays, but in little Tutbury, England, residents have had quite

enough of an expanding population of the birds that are ravaging gardens and private property. Vicki Barker has more from London. For the past quarter century, a relentlessly growing population of peacocks has prowled the village of Tutbury. Locals complain they screech day and night, and as one told a reporter, they could poo for England. Officials say the birds are the responsibility of whoever owns them. Local lore says they once lived at nearby Tutbury Castle, until neglect forced them to scavenge for food in the village. Now Tutbury Castle is part of the Duchy of Lancaster. One of King Charles's many

titles is Duke of Lancaster. The Duchy's website says His Majesty quote takes a keen interest in the estate and his tenants. Apparently not that keen. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. A five-point magnitude earthquake hit just off Peru's central coast on Sunday. The quake rattled the capital of Lima and killed at least one person when the wall from a building under construction fell on him. Five other people were injured and are being treated in area hospitals. Carlotta Segunda birdied the final two-hole Sunday to win the LPGA golf classic.

It's her first tour victory in more than eight and a half years. The 35-year-old Spanish player won for the first time since the 2016 Lorena Ochoa Invitational. She made a four-foot putt on Sunday on the 18th to avoid a playoff with Haijin Choi. 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 gonna stop right there.

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