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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Senate Republicans have blocked a war powers resolution voting down an effort today to rein in the Iran war. The resolution failed on a 47 to 53 vote. Congress will take another vote Thursday when the House is expected to take up its own version.
Chapter 2: What recent actions have Senate Republicans taken regarding the Iran war?
President Trump continues to try and explain why the U.S. took action when it did. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports on the various explanations Trump has given for going to war with Iran. President Trump again reiterated the long threat posed by the Iranian regime. At a roundtable discussion at the White House, Trump boasted of U.S. military power. He said the U.S.
obliterated Iran's nuclear program, but also said Tehran was trying to reconstitute the program and was close to having a nuclear weapon. And he said the U.S. needed to act before Iran did. And I think if we didn't do it first, they would have done it to Israel and give us a shot if that was possible. The White House argues the U.S.
didn't make the decision in a vacuum and that its decision to launch this operation was based on what it calls the cumulative effect of various direct threats. Franco, Ordonez, and PR News, the White House. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Lawmakers in both parties want Bondi to testify in their investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here's NPR's Sage Miller. Bondi would be the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to testify as part of the committee's investigation into Epstein. The Attorney General has come under fire for her handling of the Epstein files.
Congress ordered the Justice Department to release the material, but some lawmakers have accused the DOJ of not complying with the law by unnecessarily redacting certain information and not publishing all the files as it should have. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the subpoena.
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Chapter 3: What explanations has President Trump provided for U.S. military actions in Iran?
Committee Democrats want to subpoena President Trump, whose name appears numerous times in the files, but Republicans say they do not believe it's necessary. Sage Miller, NPR News. Justice Barbin also walking back policy to ban law enforcement from bursting into someone's home without knocking first, NPR's Jacqueline Diaz reports.
The Biden era ban on no knock warrants stemmed from the 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor after police forced entry into her home. Accounts varied as to whether they identified themselves. Taylor's boyfriend shot at the police and they were turned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times and killing her.
Following this, the Biden administration established restrictions on when law enforcement can enter a home without knocking first. But the Trump administration is lifting this ban, saying the Biden policy hindered law enforcement and endangered officers. The agency says it is, quote, bringing back a common sense approach to law enforcement. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News. This is NPR.
Montana Republican Senator Steve Daines is dropping his bid for re-election to a third term. Daines withdrew his name Wednesday, just minutes before Montana's deadline for candidates to file for the November midterm election. Shortly before the deadline, Montana's Republican U.S. Attorney Kurt Almey filed for Daines' seat and was quickly endorsed by President Trump.
President Trump says he'll make an endorsement soon in the Texas Senate runoff between incumbent John Cornyn and State Attorney General Ken Paxton. And in a social media post, Trump said the candidate who does not get his endorsement should drop out for the good of the party. Cornyn and Paxton advanced to a runoff this May after Tuesday's primary election.
Neither received the required support to win the nomination outright. A Texas biotech company that wants to bring the woolly mammoth and other extinct species back to life is dismissing criticism from independent scientists. NPR's Rob Stein reports. Officials at Colossal Biosciences defended their controversial goals while giving NPR a rare look inside the company's new Dallas laboratory.
That's where Colossal scientists are analyzing DNA from the woolly mammoth and other extinct species in the hopes of resurrecting the animals. That goal has drawn skepticism from many scientists. They doubt it's possible and worry it might be dangerous if it were. But Ben Lamb, Colossal's co-founder and CEO, dismisses those concerns. I'd say it's unethical not to do this.
It's immoral not to do it. Colossal says scientists could produce a woolly mammoth in about two years. Rob Stein, NPR News, Dallas. This is NPR.
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