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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. In Washington, Congress is back on Capitol Hill following the July 4th holiday break.
What are the immediate Senate implications of Senator Lindsey Graham’s death?
The Senate will be getting back to work without South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who died over the weekend at age 71. NPR's Claudia Grisales.
It's going to make a difficult season for the Senate even harder. And that is because Graham had such an outsized influence, starting with the Budget Committee. For example, one goal we've heard from House Republicans, for example, is to put together a partisan spending plan. But without the chair of the Senate Budget Committee now, senators are going to have to scramble and decide how to recalibrate their
Graham's temporary replacement is expected to be sworn in Tuesday afternoon.
What happened in the two recent ICE officer shootings and how are local prosecutors responding?
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster called on Graham's sister Darlene to fill out the rest of his term through January. Monday morning's fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Maine came less than a week after an ICE agent shot and killed a man in Houston, Texas.
Who is being appointed to temporarily replace Lindsey Graham and how will that affect Senate committees?
The district attorney in Harris County says his office still trying to obtain evidence from federal investigators. Houston Public Media's Kyle McGlinican reports.
Last week, Harris County D.A. Sean Teer announced his office would be conducting its own investigation into the shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Ararjo, who was killed by federal agents after they tried to pull him over. This week, Teer says his office is still asking for cooperation.
We are still trying to get access to a number of key pieces of evidence. What those pieces are, I'm not going to go into. At some point, it becomes a place where we stop asking and we start asking district court judges in state court and federal court to grant us access.
Teer announced the independent investigation after he says DHS declined to invite his office to join the ongoing federal investigation. For NPR News, I'm Kyle McClinigan in Houston.
European countries and Japan have agreed to contribute about $1 billion to a new fund to help rebuild water and health systems in Gaza.
How much international funding is being pledged for Gaza’s water and health systems and what obstacles remain?
NPR's Emily Fang reports.
Much of Gaza's buildings are destroyed, and the United Nations says about 70% of Gazans, or about 1.7 million people, are internally displaced, many living in makeshift tents. Rebuilding has been slowed down by ongoing Israeli strikes and because Israel restricts what can go into Gaza, including heavy machinery and construction materials. The UN has requested $2.8 billion to address critical needs only in Gaza. Meanwhile, delegations from Qatar, Turkey, Hamas, and the U.S.-led Board of Peace are in their second day of meetings in Egypt.
What recent retaliatory actions has Iran taken after U.S. strikes and what region is most affected?
They're trying to hash out some of the more contentious points of an Israel-Hamas peace plan, including mechanisms for Hamas to disarm. Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
And this is NPR News. Iran is retaliating for the latest U.S. strikes on the country. Bahrain sounded its missile alert system for a third time Tuesday.
Do National Guard deployments reduce urban crime and what are the costs and locations of current deployments?
Iran has also targeted two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates, killing one person and wounding eight others. And Iran targeted a U.S. airbase in Jordan. The U.S. military says it has completed a third consecutive night of strikes on Iran after President Trump said he is reinstating a blockade and suggested the U.S. will charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump's National Guard deployments have not reduced urban crime in the cities where troops have been sent. That's according to a new study from the Progressive Center for American Progress. That says several of those deployments still ongoing, including in Washington, D.C., As NBR's Kat Lonsdorf reports.
National Guard members are currently deployed in D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans, all as part of broader efforts by President Trump to fight crime in those cities. Violent crime was already trending down in all of those cities before Trump took office in 2025 and before those deployments began. Those trends have continued, and the study found they would have likely continued without the presence of the National Guard.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:10
2
What are the immediate Senate implications of Senator Lindsey Graham’s death?
0:10–0:51
3
What happened in the two recent ICE officer shootings and how are local prosecutors responding?
0:51–1:06
4
Who is being appointed to temporarily replace Lindsey Graham and how will that affect Senate committees?
1:06–2:11
5
How much international funding is being pledged for Gaza’s water and health systems and what obstacles remain?
2:11–2:47
6
What recent retaliatory actions has Iran taken after U.S. strikes and what region is most affected?
2:47–3:09
7
Do National Guard deployments reduce urban crime and what are the costs and locations of current deployments?
3:09–5:04