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What happened at the Capitol Hill hearing where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth requested funding for the Iran war?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday asking Congress for tens of billions of dollars to fund the Iran war. It was the first public hearing on the war since the ceasefire collapsed. Here's NPR's Quill Lawrence.
Straight from their opening statements, I have to say that neither General Kaine nor Secretary Hegseth mentioned Iran at all in their opening statements. And Secretary Hegseth, I didn't hear him mention the casualties over the weekend. The senators who opened the hearing and General Kane did offer their condolences. When the question started, they were pretty bluntly dodged by the secretary and even the chairman. Democrat Patty Murray asked Hegseth about President Trump's proposed toll on traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, asking who talked the president out of it. And Hegseth's answer was that the U.S. is blocking Iran's ports. Murray quoted Hegseth himself saying a few months ago that Iran's missiles were destroyed.
And Hegseth's answer to that was that Iran is at its weakest point in 47 years. So they were fairly well talking past each other.
The U.S. military says it has identified the remains of a third service member killed in Friday's attack on a base in Jordan. The confirmation brings a death toll to 18 since the Iran war began. The Trump administration is pausing $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California over alleged fraud concerns. Federal officials say they'll withhold payments until the states verify that certain Medicaid claims meet federal requirements.
How did senators challenge Hegseth about the Strait of Hormuz and recent casualty reports?
Erica Zurich from Minnesota Public Radio reports.
Minnesota officials say the $200 million federal officials are withholding makes this the third time payments have been delayed over alleged fraud in health programs. In a written statement, Minnesota Department of Human Services Temporary Commissioner John Connolly says federal officials haven't provided an explanation on how the deferral amount was calculated. The state says it has cooperated with the federal government to prevent the misuse of health funds. California's Governor Gavin Newsom posted on X that the state is being targeted for political reasons and not because of fraud. For NPR News, I'm Erika Zurich in St. Paul.
A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that freed a Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian activist from immigration detention. Arya Sundaram of member station WNYC reports.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals says a lower court lacked jurisdiction to decide Mahadawi's case last year. They say the matter should have gone before an immigration judge instead. Mahadawi has been a permanent U.S. resident for more than a decade, and he was arrested by ICE agents in April of last year during a citizenship interview. He says the appeals court ruling is a, quote, grave setback for constitutional freedoms. The federal government says Mahadawi's continued presence in the country is a threat to U.S. foreign policy. For NPR News, I'm Aria Sundaram in New York.
This is NPR. Arizona voters have set up a couple of key House races heading into the November midterm elections. In Tuesday's primary, voters advanced President Trump's preferred nominees in Arizona's 6th congressional district. GOP voters stuck with incumbent Juan Siscomani. He will face Democrat Joanna Mendoza this fall. Former NFL place kicker Jay Feeley won the GOP nomination in Arizona's 1st congressional district. The Democratic race remains too close to call, both races being closely watched as key to Democratic efforts to regain control of the House. As the school day goes on, kids have a harder time controlling their physical movements. Empire's Janaki Mehta reports on a new study that suggests this may say something about students' long-term success in school.
As each hour of the school day ticks by, kids tend to get squirmier. Ask any teacher, and that might not be a surprise to them, but a new study in the journal Developmental Psychology tracked children from around the country for decades, from birth until age 26.
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