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What are the latest updates on the Gaza humanitarian crisis and Israeli airstrikes?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. The Israeli backed American aid organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, says at least nineteen people were killed today when a crowd surged near an aid distribution site. It happened in Khan Yunus in southern Gaza. Separately, Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of people across the Gaza Strip, including Khan Yunus. The Israeli military accuses Hamas of hiding its military infrastructure in civilian areas. Evacuations are taking place in southwestern Iceland because of a volcanic eruption. The country's national broadcaster, RUV, Says areas under evacuation include the Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa. That's where campers and guests were forced to pack up and leave when the seismic activity began.
At the moment, officials say the flowing lava poses no threat to buildings or roads. The Trump administration is scaling back the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles. As NPR's Elena Moore reports, the President deployed more than 4,000 Guard troops to downtown LA last month in response to protests over federal immigration raids.
A U.S. official has confirmed to NPR that about 2,000 National Guard troops are being released from service in LA. The official adds that the other 2,000 will remain in the city along with 700 Marines. In a statement from Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, he praised the troops for their service and said that, quote, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding. Opponents of Trump's decision to deploy troops. Groups argued it was an abuse of power. However, a federal appeals court later ruled that the president was in fact allowed to temporarily control the state's National Guard. Elena Moore and Pierre News, Washington.
Police in Los Angeles are giving new details on their investigation into the shooting deaths of the longtime music producer of the TV show American Idol and her husband, Steve Funerman has more from Los Angeles.
A twenty-two-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the killings. The bodies of Robin Kay and her husband Thomas DeLuca were discovered on Monday. Now investigators say the couple had been dead since last week. Police believe the two walked into their home in the middle of a burglary. The two were found shot to death in different rooms of their home.
Why is the Trump administration scaling back National Guard troops in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles police lieutenant Guy Golan.
The suspect was already inside the residence when the homeowners arrived. And at that point there was a violent confrontation that ensued.
Police don't know if the suspect knew the victims. At the moment it's being treated as a random attack. Representatives of American Idol call Kay a cornerstone of the program. For MPR News, I'm Steve Federman in Los Angeles.
Wall Street is coming off a mostly down day for stocks, though the Nasdaq closed at another record high its fourth of the last five trading sessions. This is NPR News. Earlier this week, some federal workers at the Department of Health and Human Services were notified they'd been fired. They got word in an email received at a minute past five in the evening Eastern time on Monday, hours before their emails cut off. As NPR's Selena Simmons Duffin reports, those affected were part of the reduction in force that began in April but had been paused by the courts.
The email from HHS Human Resources explained that the Supreme Court had cleared the way for HHS to move forward with its reduction in force and said recipients were officially separated at close of business that day. Anthony Lee works at the Food and Drug Administration and is president of Chapter two hundred and eighty two of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents thousands of FDA employees.
Getting inundated with a lot of questions about what does this mean? Can can the agency do this?
He says employees weren't told anything about their severance or benefits like health insurance.
So they are really left in the dark.
HHS confirmed to NPR that employees were terminated this week but declined to provide the number. Selena Simmons Duffin, NPR News.
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