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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is saying he did not think an image he posted of himself with light coming from his hands healing a man in a hospital bed depicted him as Jesus Christ. As NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben tells us, the now-deleted post came after the president attacked Pope Leo XIV in another lengthy social media post.
Trump tells members of the media that he did post the apparently AI-generated image, but didn't think it depicted him as Jesus.
It's supposed to be me as a doctor making people better, and I do make people better. I make people a lot better.
The post was deleted today after many, including Trump supporters, criticized the imagery. Trump also said he won't apologize to Pope Leo after lashing out at the pontiff for his comments criticizing the war in Iran. Pope Leo called the president's threats last week to destroy Iranian civilization unacceptable. Trump, meanwhile, called Pope Leo weak on crime. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News, the White House.
A day after he dropped out of the race for California governor, the House Ethics Committee says it's now investigating sexual misconduct allegations against Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell. So before reporter Nicholas Wu looks at the Democrats' future in Congress.
What we're seeing right now are really both parties kind of trying to do the math and move for a little bit to see like what will happen with other expulsion resolutions. And a number of lawmakers have called for Swalwell to step down and said they would vote to expel him. But this also means that an expulsion resolution is likely to be brought up against Congressman Tony Gonzalez of Texas. He's a Republican. He's also been accused of sexual misconduct with his staff. And we're really seeing the beginnings of quite an uproar in the House over lawmakers really trying to police their own ranks.
Nicholas Wu speaking with NPR's Here and Now. Russia says it respects the choice of voters in Hungary following Sunday's closely watched elections. The race saw the Kremlin's longtime ally Viktor Orban soundly defeated. From Moscow, NPR's Charles Mains reports.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia hoped to maintain pragmatic ties with Hungary's new political leadership, but would wait to see how events developed. Peskov noted that Hungary's next prime minister, Peter Marzhan, has already pledged to engage with Russia... A move Marzars said was unavoidable given Hungary's geography and continued reliance on Russian energy exports. Still, the result of Hungary's election was widely seen as a blow to Kremlin interests. Hungary's now outgoing prime minister, Viktor Orban, has long served as Moscow's closest ally in the European Union. Orban has also repeatedly undermined EU support for Ukraine amid Russia's ongoing invasion of its neighbor. Charles Mainz, NPR News, Moscow.
From Washington, this is NPR News. A federal prosecutor says a 16-year-old Florida boy will be tried as an adult on charges of aggravated sexual abuse and murder on a Carnival cruise ship. Timothy Hudson is accused of killing his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, who was found dead during a trip with their family last year. The U.S. military has killed five people it says were smuggling drugs by boat in the Pacific. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports the U.S. has killed at least 168 people in similar encounters since September.
U.S. Southern Command posted grainy videos on social media showing explosions that destroyed two small boats alleged to be smuggling drugs. Southcom said it notified the U.S. Coast Guard to search for and rescue one shipwrecked survivor in the eastern Pacific. The Trump administration says the U.S. is at war with narcotraffickers and that these strikes save American lives. It's not clear how the strategy has affected the flow of cocaine, but a majority of overdose deaths in the U.S. are from fentanyl, which is mostly smuggled by land from Mexico. Many legal experts say these strikes amount to execution without trial or simply murder.
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