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Chapter 1: What was the outcome of the White House investigation into the group chat incident?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House says it has closed its investigation into how a journalist was invited into a group chat of high-ranking officials discussing strike plans. NPR's Frank Ordonez reports the White House did not offer any details of what it found.
Chapter 2: Why did President Trump maintain confidence in the National Security Advisor?
Speaking outside the White House, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said that President Trump continues to have confidence in the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. Waltz took responsibility for adding the Atlantic editors-in-chief to the group chat of top officials discussing plans to launch strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen.
Last week, the White House said it was reviewing how the journalist was added. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill also called for an investigation. But Leavitt said today they have completed their review.
Chapter 3: What steps has the White House taken to prevent future security breaches?
This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again.
Levitt did not offer any details, though, on what steps were taken. Franco Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
Chapter 4: How did astronauts return from the extended ISS mission?
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams have held their first news conference since they got back home from the International Space Station nearly two weeks ago. They had traveled to the ISS on a test flight of Boeing's Starliner, part of NASA's commercial spaceflight program.
The plan was eight days, but they ended up staying more than nine months after Starliner experienced a series of problems and the call was made to get it back to Earth without its crew. In order for Williams and Wilmore to hitch a ride home on SpaceX's Crew-9 Dragon capsule, two other astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, had to give up their seats.
Today, Williams was asked about the hugs she gave Cardman when she first got off the plane in Houston.
Chapter 5: What was the emotional reunion like for the astronauts returning from space?
I told her that I used her Crew-9 shirt when we were up there for a photo op, but I packed it back up real nicely and put it in her stuff. And a little joking aside, I just wanted to really tell her thank you for taking one for the team.
Republicans in Tennessee want public schools to be able to refuse enrollment to children without legal immigration status. Mariana Bacayau of Member Station WPLN with details.
Republicans say the proposal is a challenge to a 1982 Supreme Court decision, which established the right to education for students without legal status. That's part of the Republican strategy, especially with the court's conservative majority, says Stella Yarbrough, the legal director of Tennessee's ACLU.
If they can tee up challenges to cases that were close calls, I think that they are correct, that they are going to get a second bite at the apple.
Tennessee was before the Supreme Court late last year to defend its ban on gender-affirming care for minors. When that ruling comes out this summer, state Republicans will get a sense of whether their strategy works. For NPR News, I'm Marianna Bakayau in Nashville.
Latest in Dogecats, the Institute of Museum and Library Services is placing its staff on administrative leave. This is NPR News. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is barred from running for office for five years and is highly unlikely to run for president in 2027.
In a ruling that has sent shockwaves through French politics today, a Paris court found Le Pen guilty of embezzling millions in EU money to fund her national rally party. She was sentenced to four years in prison, two suspended. Le Pen has vowed to appeal the verdict. Nine other individuals were also convicted in the case.
A Chinese company is planning the largest human trial yet for implanting computer chips into human brains. They've inserted a wireless chip into the brains of three people so far. and are planning a clinical trial with 50 people by 2026. NPR's Emily Fang has more.
The idea is to one day create an interface between the human mind and electronic systems by implanting a chip directly into people's heads. Chinese company NuCyber is aiming to implant its chips in 13 people by the end of the year. Right now, U.S. company Synchron, whose investors include billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, is running a trial with 10 patients.
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