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Hey there, it's Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I know this is hard to believe, but one day the election will be over. Then the winner gets a lot more powerful. It's my job to report on what they do with that power. That's public accountability, but it's not possible without public support. So please support our work. Sign up for NPR+. Go to plus.npr.org. NPR plus. Go to plus dot NPR dot org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Israel has launched airstrikes against Iran. The head spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Daniel Higary, in a statement online saying the strikes are retaliation for a ballistic missile attack by Iran against Israel earlier this month and other attacks.

In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the state of Israel, right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran. The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7 on seven fronts, including direct attacks from Iranian soil. There are no reports or immediate reports of damage from Tehran. Israel launched a devastating assault in Gaza just over a year ago in response to a terror attack by the militant group Hamas, which is backed by Iran. President Joe Biden today formally apologized for a nationwide boarding school system that for decades forcibly assimilated indigenous children.

For a Vermonter Lakota elder whose family experienced those schools, she wants to know what will happen after the apology. Vermont Public's Lodi Reed us more. This is the first ever formal presidential apology for a federal policy that lasted between 1819 and the 1970s. Vermont resident and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe citizen Beverly Littlethunder wished it happened earlier in Biden's presidency.

Restitution and action would be demanding that every treaty that the United States had ever signed with any of the nations in this country be brought out, looked at, and honored. Following the apology, Biden said he was committed to fulfilling federal treaty obligations with Indigenous nations. Little Thunder's nation recently filed a new lawsuit over the Dakota Access Pipeline, alleging it violates an 1868 treaty. For NPR News, I'm Elodie Reed.

A NASA astronaut is hospitalized after returning from the International Space Station this morning. Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Berm reports the space agency says the unidentified astronaut is in stable condition and under observation as a precaution. Three U.S. astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida after 235 days in space. The group was part of NASA's SpaceX Crew 8 mission. NASA says the re-entry and splashdown were without incident, but during a routine medical assessment after the splashdown, a medical evaluation of the crew members was requested.

All four were transported to a hospital in Pensacola. After evaluation, three crew members departed and arrived at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA says the one crew member that remains under observation at the hospital has not been named to protect the person's medical privacy and identity. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando. The mix close on Wall Street today, the Dow fell 259 points, the NASDAQ was up 103 points. This is NPR. The number of people sick and as a result of McDonald's quarter pounder hamburgers has now risen to 75. The Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of E. coli spread to at least 13 states with 22 people now hospitalized. Officials say they are focusing on raw slivered onions used in some McDonald's hamburgers. So far one person has died as a result of the E. coli outbreak. A wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK is claiming responsibility for an attack on Turkey's state aerospace company that killed five people and injured more than 20 others. Drea Burskaren reports.

On a public Telegram channel, the military wing of the PKK said it was behind Wednesday's attack at the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries. The company is a state-run defense manufacturer based outside Turkey's capital city Ankara. A male and female attacker detonated explosions and fired assault rifles while forcing entry. They both died in the attack. Most of the victims were employees of the company, which builds fighter jets, helicopters and unmanned drones, as well as commercial aircraft. Over the past two days, Turkish forces have carried out retaliatory attacks in northern

Syria and Iraq. State media reported that at least 59 people were killed. For NPR News, I'm Darii Bouskaran in Istanbul. Two big luxury brands that had hoped to tie the knot were not cleared for marriage by a U.S. District Court judge. That judge halting the planned merger of Coach and Michael Kors handbags on the grounds it would be any competitive and harm consumers. Willing comes six months after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the $8.5 billion

deal. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington.