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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Venezuelan officials say at least two dozen security officers were killed in the surprise US attack Saturday to seize the former leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife. This is the first official death toll by Venezuelan officials. Cuban authorities previously said thirty two of their personnel were killed in the attack too, NPR's Kerry Khan reports.
Venezuelan officials are toughening their rhetoric against the US attack. In announcing the death toll, Venezuela's attorney general Tarik William Saab said that the quote war crimes against officers and civilians would be investigated. The hardline interior minister Diosnado Cabello joined pro government marchers in a large boisterous rally in Caracas condemning what he called the kidnapping of Venezuela's rightful leader. Leader. While acting President Dulcie Rodriguez decried the quote, terrible military aggression of the U.S., and in an apparent rebuke of President Trump's threat she stay in line with U.S. demands, she said, quote, personally to those who threaten me, my destiny is not determined by them.
But by God.
Partisan divides over the significance of the January sixth insurrection are on display on this fifth anniversary of the violent attack. Democrats marked the day with events. The Trump administration unveiled a website that insists rioters were peaceful that day, and most Republican lawmakers sidestepped the anniversary. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
House Democrats heard testimony from a former prosecutor who tried cases against the rioters and a former Capitol police officer. They also heard from seventy-two-year-old Pamela Hempill of Idaho. She was among those convicted for participating in the riot, but she declined clemency from President Trump and teared up as she addressed the Capitol police officer, also testifying.
I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart. For being part of the mob. That put you And so many officers in danger.
Many of the rioters have not been apologetic. To mark the anniversary, some retraced their steps that day from the White House to the Capitol. Sam Green Glass, NPR News, Washington.
The Department of Health and Human Services has changed the recommended vaccine schedule for children, removing many shots that have been deemed safe. Former CDC director Richard Besser says the change will lead to confusion and potentially death.
I took care of of patients before most of those vaccines were either on the the the list or or recommended. And I saw children hospitalized. I've seen children die from many of these diseases that are now no longer in the recommended column.
Now vaccines for diseases like flu, hepatitis A and B, and meningitis are only recommended for those at high risk or after consultation with a healthcare provider. This is NPR News from Washington. Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a settlement project that would effectively cut the West Bank in two. The international community overwhelmingly considers settlement construction in the West Bank to be illegal and an obstacle to peace in the region. The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld abortion access in the deep red state, but as Wyoming Public Radio's Hannah Murzbach reports, the battle may not be over.
The majority of justices ruled that two twenty twenty three laws banning most medical and procedural abortions violate the state constitution, which gives Wyomingites the right to make their own health care decisions. Jackson Holby GYN Jovenina Anthony says this is a big win.
You know, um, I don't have to lie to patients about what they can and can't do. I don't have to send them out of state. I don't have to figure out how to fly them somewhere.
But state lawmakers say they'll put a constitutional amendment before voters as early as next fall to make abortion illegal in nearly all cases. Despite the Republican majority's efforts, the practice has remained legal in the state since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. For MPR News, I'm Hannah Murzbach in Jackson, Wyoming.
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