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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Four NASA astronauts have safely returned to Earth aboard a private SpaceX capsule. They came home early because one unidentified crew member had a serious medical issue. The astronaut is in stable condition. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman did not identify the astronaut with medical concern, but speaking last hour, said the four-person crew is safe.
NASA astronauts Xena Cardman, Mike Fink, Jax Astronaut, Kimye Yuyi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov are all safe and in good spirits. All crew members are currently undergoing the routine post-splashdown medical evaluation. The crew member of concern is doing fine. We will share updates on their health as soon as it's appropriate to do so.
The crew's SpaceX capsule splashed down before dawn in the Pacific Ocean off California. The United States is launching the second phase of the Gaza peace plan. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the transition moves from the ceasefire phase to demilitarization, governance and reconstruction.
The Mideast peace envoy Steve Witkoff says in a social media post that the U.S. expects Hamas to comply fully with its obligations, warning that failure to do so would bring serious consequences. U.S. officials announced they have sent out invites for an international body the administration is calling a board of peace that will be tasked with governing the Gaza Strip. They say President Trump will personally select who will be on it and that the names will be released later. And they acknowledge the skepticism from Israel and elsewhere about whether Hamas will actually disarm, but say their goal is to create an alternative to Hamas that wants peace and figure out ways to empower those new leaders.
Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
The Senate has rejected a war powers resolution that would limit President Trump's ability to order new military action in Venezuela. Vice President Vance had to break the 50-50 tie vote last night. The Justice Department is suing the state of Minnesota, claiming its affirmative action laws are discriminatory. And Minnesota is suing the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown. NPR's Elena Moore has more.
The complaint by the Department of Justice takes aim at the Minnesota government's affirmative action policies, arguing that by considering someone's sex or race in staffing and personnel decisions, it, quote, inevitably and necessarily discriminates against other employees. It's the latest move by the Trump administration to dismantle what it sees as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs. But it also comes as Minnesota officials wage a legal battle of their own. filing a lawsuit Monday against the administration's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, days after an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in the city. Elena Moore, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The Homeland Security Agency says there's been another shooting by immigration agents in Minneapolis. DHS says a Venezuelan immigrant has been shot in the leg. The agency says the federal agent was being attacked and that he shot in self-defense. This shooting comes a week after an ICE agent shot and killed Rene Macklin Good in Minneapolis. Climate change is causing sea levels to rise around the world. But when it comes to river deltas, researchers find that the surrounding land is also sinking. From member station WWNO, Eva Tesfai has more on a study from the University of California, Irvine.
The study finds deltas around the world are sinking at similar rates to or even faster than sea levels are rising, and that it's mostly due to human activity, such as extracting groundwater and Libyan dam construction. Leonard Ohaha, the study's lead author, says that's the case for the Mississippi River Delta.
The Mississippi River Delta, for example, I think that is one of the only deltas in the world where you have active relocation of people from the deltas due to land loss.
He hopes this research will help people living in deltas figure out how best to deal with land loss, like, for example, using river sediment to build back land.
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