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The U.S. faces a housing crisis and growing threats of climate change. One global city is tackling both problems at once, and U.S. cities are paying attention. These climate researchers, they kept repeating one word over and over. Vienna, Vienna, Vienna. Lessons from the social housing capital of Europe. Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korova Coleman. This is the fourth day of fighting between Israel and Iran. It is not easing.

Israel says it has destroyed a third of Iran's missile launchers. Iran has been firing ballistic missiles into Israel, and Israeli officials say at least 20 people have been killed. Meanwhile, in Iran, at least 224 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, according to the Iranian Health Ministry. NPR's Jane Araf reports the Iranian government says more than a thousand people have been wounded. Iran says many of the casualties across the country were women and children. They were killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes that began Friday, targeting what Israel says are

nuclear facilities, military commanders and top scientists. The Iranian government says dozens of the women and children were killed when a residential complex collapsed in an Israeli attack. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman has called on the UN Security Council to condemn Israel's attacks. Israel says they're aimed at preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Iran says its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes.

Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman. The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency says there is no current sign of contamination at two Iranian nuclear sites, but he is warning of the possibility. Authorities in Minnesota have arrested the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of a top state Democratic lawmaker and her husband and the woundings of another Democratic lawmaker and his wife. Minnesota Public Radio's Matt Sepick explains how officials found suspect Vance Belter. Police found a car belonging to Belter down the road from his home. Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Brule says an officer

thought that he may have seen Belter run into the woods, so authorities hurried to set up a perimeter. Brule says officers called Belter out of the forest and into a field where he surrendered. Authorities say Belter was armed, but they did not specify what type of weapon he had. Matt Sepick reporting. President Trump has ordered officials in his administration to expand deportation campaigns

in large democratically led cities. As NPR's Adrienne Florido reports, writing online, Trump said they should do all they can to achieve his mass deportation goals. ICE officers are herewith ordered, Trump wrote on Truth Social, to detain and deport illegal aliens in America's largest cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. The president went on to accuse democratic leaders in those and other cities of using immigrants without legal status to expand their voter base and to cheat in elections.

There's never been evidence of this, but the president's post suggests that more than a week after ICE agents began aggressive raids in Los Angeles, setting off protests, other large cities could soon expect the same. Trump wrote, quote, I have directed my entire administration to put every resource possible behind this effort. Adrienne Flaudiva, NPR News, Los Angeles. This is NPR.

Millions of people turned out for peaceful protests across the country on Saturday. The No Kings protests were staged in thousands of areas. In Salt Lake City, one person has been killed. Police say that a person in the protest who was apparently not the intended target was shot and later died at a hospital. Three people suspected of involvement in the shooting have been arrested. President Trump is attending the Group of Seven summit today in Alberta, Canada. The G7 leaders are faced with several issues including the new conflict between Israel and Iran and

President Trump's global terrors. Trump will meet the summit's host, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, later this morning. In a case of reality catching up with fiction, Britain's MI6 spy agency has named its first ever female chief. From London, NPR's Lauren Frayer has more. It's a milestone already surpassed in the movies, with Judi Dench playing James Bond's MI6 boss. Now Britain's real-life spies are following suit.

47-year-old Blaise Metruweli, a career intelligence officer, is coming out of the shadows to become the first-ever female head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency. She used to be the head of technology and innovation, nicknamed Q, James Bond's gadget master. Now she'll be C, chief of MI6, and the agency's only publicly named position. She takes over in the fall and will lead MI6 through what Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls threats on an unprecedented scale, from Russia, China and

non-state actors. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.