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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation working toward a healthy resilient secure world for all on the web at the Schmidt org Live from NPR news I'm Dale Willman Israel says it's entered a series of air strikes on Iranian military targets in response to what it called the continuous attacks on Israel by Iran and its proxies. A military spokesman said Israel had the right and duty to defend itself following the barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles fired at Israel three weeks ago. The BBC's Obama and Kalbassi has more on the reactions from Iran.

The Revolutionary Guard has put out a statement saying a number of military bases were the target of this attack. But with the caveat of saying these were unsuccessful attacks, and in fact one of the semi-official state media said there has been no missiles that hit any of the military bases named. And the sounds that people have heard, they claim, are of the defense system against an incoming missile or aerial attack. The BBC is bombing Kalba Sea. Explosions have also been reported in Syria's capital of Damascus. The state news agency said Syrian air defenses were intercepting

what it called hostile targets. There have also been reports of explosions in Iraq near the capital, Baghdad. In Washington, the White House said there was no U.S. involvement at what it called Israel's exercise of self-defense. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was campaigning in Texas on Friday. At a rally in Austin, he criticized a ruling by a judge in Virginia who ordered the state to restore more than 1,600 voter registrations that she said were illegally purged. This is blatantly un-American and it's election interference and Kamala Harris is behind it very much.

And so I just wanted to bring that to your attention and obviously, I mean, it's up to the governor of Virginia, Len Yonkin, but I assume they're going to be appealing it. I think he's going to. The injunction was sought by the Justice Department, which said the voter registrations were cancelled during a period where federal law restricts such actions. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has decided the paper will not endorse anyone in this year's presidential race. That's the first time that's happened since 1988, and Pierre's David Falkenflich broke the story and reports that the head of the paper's editorial page had already approved backing Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Washington Post reporters have uncovered wrongdoing by former President Donald Trump and his associates while in office. The editorial page, which operates separately, has repeatedly characterized Trump as being unfit for that office. Publisher Will Lewis told readers the paper sought to return to its roots of decades ago when it did not endorse presidential candidates. The paper's editorial writers were outraged. Editor-at-large Robert Kagan has resigned. It's the prerogative of newspaper owners to make such decisions and it is common

they do so. In this case an editorial endorsing Harris was already in the works. The move follows a similar decision by Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soonshong. David Folkenflick, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News. President Joe Biden formally apologized Friday for a nationwide boarding school system that for decades forcibly assimilated indigenous children. Now, a Vermonter and Lakota elder whose family experienced those schools wants to know what will happen next.

Vermont Public's Eladie Reese has 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. The LA Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 6-3 in Game 1 of the World Series. Celebration here at Dodger Stadium as the Dodgers down to their final out, of the World Series. over the Yankees. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. And in Wall Street, stocks close mostly down on Friday. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. This message comes from Grammarly. The work we can be fast-paced, and it's hard to focus

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