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Israel Sunday launched a series of airstrikes on the capital of Yemen.
The attacks came after Houthi militants fired missiles at Israel last week.
MPR's Jackie Northam reports from Tel Aviv.
Israel's military says 10 fighter jets took part in the attack on targets in Yemen,
including a Houthi military site in the capital, Sanaa,
as well as power plants and a fuel storage site at an oil company.
A video on social media shows a massive orange-colored fireball over part of the city.
The strikes come after Houthis launched a ballistic missile at Israel on Friday.
Israeli officials say the missile carried a cluster bomb,
the first time this type of munition has been launched from Yemen.
Houthi rebels have repeatedly fired missiles and drone.
drones at Israel since the start of the Gaza war nearly two years ago in solidarity with the
Palestinians. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Following the deployment of National Guard
troops to Washington, D.C., President Trump says he's now thinking about sending troops to Chicago next.
But Illinois officials say Trump has no legal standing to do so. MPR's Joe Hernandez has more
on the reaction from the prairie states. Some Illinois leaders are saying they don't want this to happen.
One of them is Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. He's a Democrat, and he said in a post on social media over the weekend that Trump's threat to send the National Guard to Chicago, quote, isn't about safety. It's a test of the limits of his power and a trial run for a police state. Pritzker also said in a separate statement that Illinois did not ask for this and that there's no emergency in the state to warrant the National Guard going there.
Trump says the cities need help to get violent crime under control, but in both Washington, D.C. and Chicago, violent
Crime rapes have dropped precipitously in recent years.
Vice President J.D. Vance is defending Republican efforts to gerrymander congressional maps
ahead of next year's midterm elections.
At the request of President Trump, Texas lawmakers, recently approved a new map that adds five favorable seats for the GOP.
MPR's Ashley Lopez has our reports.
Vance said in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that this ongoing redistricting fight is an effort to counter maps drawn to favor Democrats in blue states.
All we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale.
The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively.
Partisan gerrymandering is practiced by both parties, although some Democratic states have independent redistricting commissions.
Democrats say they plan to counter Republican efforts ahead of next year.
California Democrats are asking voters to approve a ballot measure this fall that could allow the state to add five more seats favorable to Democrats to its map.
Ashley Lopez and PR News.
Russia says drones from Ukraine started a fire Sunday at a nuclear plant in the Kersk region.
The fire was quickly put out and there were no injuries reported from the attack,
but Russia says a transformer was damaged.
Radiation levels have remained normal.
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Actor Jerry Adler has died.
He started his career behind the scenes in theater and worked on more than 50 Broadway productions.
He then transitioned to acting in his 60s.
He gained fame for his roles on the Supreme.
Crannos and the Good Wife, he was 96 years old, no cause of death, has been released.
Six male workers who died at a dairy farm north of Denver last week have now been identified,
but the cause of their deaths remains under investigation.
Emma Van Denindy, a member station KUNC, has more on the victims.
Weld County Fire Department crews found six bodies when they responded to a call for a confined space rescue at the Prospect Valley Dairy on Wednesday.
The county coroner's office reports four victims were extended family members.
50-year-old Alejandro Espinoza Cruz was killed along with his two sons,
29-year-old Carlos Espinoza Pardo, and 17-year-old Oscar Espinoza-Leos,
who attended high school in the area.
The coroner says the cause of death was likely a gas exposure in the confined space,
but the office is waiting on additional testing.
There is no indication a crime took place.
The occupational safety and health administration is also investigative.
the incident. For NPR News, I'm Emma Vanda 90 in Denver. It appears that the Netflix film
K-pop Demon Hunters took first place at North American box offices this weekend. Netflix
has a policy of not reporting ticket sales, but rival studios estimate the movie brought
in between $16 and $18 million. The horror movie weapons, meanwhile, came in second with $15.6 million,
and Freakier Friday earned $9.2 million in its third week of release. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.
Thank you.