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Live from NPR News in Washington. I'm Dave Mattingly. President Trump says he'll have more to say today about Israel's airstrike on Hamas headquarters in the capital of Qatar. Speaking to reporters yesterday in Washington, the president said he was not thrilled with the Israeli strike in Doha. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Gutierish is condemning the Israeli attack, saying it violated Qatar's sovereignty. An official with Hamas tells NPR none of its leaders was killed in the strike. Trump says he spoke to Israel's prime minister after the attack. Poland says it shot down several Russian drones after they entered Polish airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine.

The BBC's Adam Easton has more. Both Polish jets and Dutch jets, which are stationed currently in Poland as part of the NATO air policing exercise, were scrambled. They attract some of these drones that violated Polish airspace on radar and they shot down those drones, which were deemed to be a threat. We don't know how many. We know that Polish police have discovered a damaged drone in a village, not that far from the Belarusian border, not the Ukrainian border. That's the BBC's Adam Easton.

Afterwards, Poland's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, met with top national security officials and said the Russian drones entering Polish airspace amounted to a large-scale provocation. The governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, is offering advice to people in Chicago as the Trump administration sends federal agents to the windy city to crack down on illegal immigration. Alex Degman, with member station WB.B.E.Z has more.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that someone's perceived ethnicity can be considered among other salient factors when federal officials detain people suspected of being in the country illegally. Pritzker says the state cannot stop these types of patrols amid the immigration enforcement push, but he says residents can take precautions. Federal law trumps state law, period, end of sentence. And so what we can do is make sure that people know their rights and that they're staying out of the way.

Pritzker reiterated that the state will take the Trump administration to court if they break state or federal law. He says that includes deploying the National Guard to Chicago absent his request. A request he says he's not making. For NPR News, I'm Alex Degman in Springfield, Illinois. A federal judge is temporarily blocking President Trump from firing federal reserve governor Lisa Cook. The judge in Washington issued a preliminary injunction, determining the president likely acted illegally when he tried to remove Cook from the central bank amid allegation she committed mortgage fraud in 2021. The judge cited a law designed to insulate the Fed from political interference.

Judge Giacob also ruled Trump likely violated Cook's right-to-do process. This is NPR News. Wall Street closed at record highs yesterday after a revised report from the Labor Department showed job growth in the U.S. has been weaker than previously thought. The report found the economy likely added 911,000 fewer jobs in the 12 months ending in March, mostly during the final months of the Biden administration. The numbers fueled optimism among investors that the Federal Reserve will move to cut interest rates at next week's policy meeting. The Dow added 196 points to close at 45,711.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is emphasizing the rights of parents to exempt their children from certain lessons in school based on religious beliefs. NPR's Jason DeRose says Bondi has issued a memo on parental rights in public schools. The subject of the memo is upholding constitutional rights and parental authority in America's education system. It says the DOJ wants to protect parents exercising their rights in defense of, quote, family, faith, and the future of our nation. The memo says parents have a fundamental right to direct the moral and religious education of their children, and that schools receiving public funds must allow parents to exempt their children from lessons that conflict with the family's sincerely held religious beliefs, specifically beliefs related to sexuality and what it calls gender ideology. The memo says any attempt to burden these rights will face action from the Justice Department.

Jason DeRose, NPR News. Missouri's State House has approved a plan to redraw the state's congressional map. It now heads to the state Senate. I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News, in Washington.