NPR News: 06-05-2026 8AM EDT
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What recent immigration funding measure did the Senate pass?
The Senate has passed a huge measure that will fund federal immigration efforts for three years. It's worth about $70 billion. The Senate debate lasted about 18 hours, and in the end, it was a near party-line vote. Democrats tried to add an amendment that would block one of President Trump's priorities. That's to create a nearly $2 billion fund to pay people who claim they were targeted by the federal government. Benabier's Barbara Sprunt says that amendment failed.
There was bipartisan pushback at that time. anti-weaponization fund. The acting attorney general said it's not going to move forward, which seemed to satisfy senators. But then the president told reporters he didn't actually know if it was scrapped or not. And he said that knowing that there are these Republican senators who are uncomfortable with the idea. So this moment for congressional Republicans is about passing this priority after all this time. But it's also a moment where there's this increasing tension and conflict with the White House. And I don't think that's stopping anytime soon.
NPR's Barbara Sprunt reporting. Just a week after a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, an armed drone exploded in a Romanian port. Terry Schultz says there were no injuries or major damage.
The Romanian Defense Ministry says the naval drone self-detonated mid-morning after being detected earlier by authorities who closed off the area in the civilian port of Constanta. While Romanian officials have not yet revealed whether the drone was Russian or Ukrainian, they did confirm it was not one of their own and described it as being of the type used in the war in Ukraine. Romanian President Nicoser Dan was on his way to a European Union summit when the incident occurred, and he wrote on X that, quote, "...such particularly serious situations are the direct consequences of the war of aggression unleashed by Russia against Ukraine." EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen echoed that, expressing solidarity with Romania and saying Europe urgently needs more anti-drone capabilities.
For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
In the U.S., rising mortgage rates are dragging down the spring home-buying season. According to the online real estate platform Redfin, new home listings are declining. NPR's Stephen Bissaha reports sellers are taking their homes off the market.
It was expected to be a strong home-buying season. Average interest rates for a 30-year fixed mortgage dropped below 6% in February, the first time in three and a half years. But the war against Iran increased the cost of borrowing, and this week the mortgage rate is about 6.5%. Real estate business Zillow says sales in May were below where they were a year ago, nearly 3 percent, and housing recovery is back on pause. Families choosing to stick with renting are seeing the benefits of an apartment construction boom. The retail data company Yardi Matrix reports the average advertised rent was virtually flat compared to a year earlier. Stephen Basaja, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. An appeals court in Colorado reversed the homicide convictions of two former paramedics and ordered new trials for them. The men were convicted of injecting ketamine into Elijah McClain. a black man who was pinned down by police in 2019. McLean died after warning them he could not breathe. Federal transportation officials are investigating Atlanta's Bus and Rail Transit Authority. A woman was stabbed on a MARTA train last week and died. From member station WABE, Lily Oppenheimer reports.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says in addition to looking into the stabbings, they will also investigate overall risks to those Atlanta MARTA riders and workers. Duffy alleges the transit agency's rate of assaults, robberies and rapes for MARTA employees and riders is nearly twice the national average. This investigation comes less than two weeks ahead of the first FIFA World Cup match in Atlanta.
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