Korva Coleman

Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday on the Trump administration's push to prevent migrants from seeking asylum in the U.S.

The Justice Department wants to reinstate what's known as a metering policy.

This blocks migrants at the Mexico border before they cross into the U.S.

Federal law allows migrants who arrive in the U.S.

or are physically present to apply for asylum.

Former President Barack Obama first introduced the metering policy in 2016.

The Trump administration expanded the practice, but it was then rescinded during former President Joe Biden's term.

The head of NASA says the agency will pause its effort to build a small orbiting space station around the moon.

NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports it will instead focus on the lunar surface.

Again on Wall Street, Dow futures are higher.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

The war against Iran continues.

The Pentagon says U.S.

forces are destroying Iranian naval targets that threaten international shipping.

That includes the very narrow Strait of Hormuz.

But Iran is continuing to attack neighboring Arab countries.

Officials in Kuwait say Iranian drones hit one of their oil refineries today, sparking a fire.

Iran says the top spokesman for its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, was killed today in a strike.

Meanwhile, NPR's Emily Fang is on Turkey's border with Iran speaking to Iranians who say they have mixed feelings about joint U.S.