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Central Command said U.S.

forces successfully struck 90 Iranian military targets on Harg Island.

Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Pete Hexa says the U.S.

obliterated Iran's navy and is near total control of Iranian airspace.

A controversial article.

Al-Quds Day rally in support of Palestinians went ahead in Toronto on Saturday.

As Dan Karpenchuk reports, that was after a judge threw out an injunction request from the Ontario government to prevent the rally from taking place.

The first train in six years that departed Beijing to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang started running again this week.

NPR's Emily Fang reports China State Airline will also begin flights again to North Korea.

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A spacecraft the size of a large box of cereal should soon start helping to answer a big question, whether there is life on planets outside our solar system.

Joe Palka reports.

The Pentagon has outlined new editorial guidance for Stars and Stripes, the independent military newspaper for U.S.

service members stationed overseas.

But the eight-page memo, which now bars some syndicated features, bars comics, and limits the use of wire services, is being criticized as a threat to the First Amendment.

The paper's editor-in-chief, Eric Slavin, told NPR that he's concerned for his staff reporters who could be court-martialed for possible violations of what the Defense Department might not like.

The new so-called modernization changes were released days ago and just weeks after a Pentagon spokesman accused Stars and Stripes of quote, woke distractions.

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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa Kautel.