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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst.
What is the latest U.S.-Iran escalation update and Congressional reaction?
For the second night in a row, the U.S. didn't attack Iran last night, and Iran also paused its strikes. This amid growing concerns in Congress on how the war's going. Republican Mike Turner is a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
There's bipartisan frustration on Capitol Hill. You're seeing it, you know, Republicans, Democrats that are showing their frustration with how this war is being, this conflict is being prosecuted.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat, says the war in Iran is using resources that may be needed elsewhere.
We have depleted our interceptors, which are the weapons we use to intercept incoming Iranian attacks, which are obviously necessary to protect American troops. And so we are depleting these every day, despite the fact that we could face other potential conflicts around the world.
Both men speaking there on ABC's This Week.
How are lawmakers worried about interceptor depletion and military readiness?
FBI Director Kash Patel says the FBI is delivering in the fields of cybersecurity, combating money laundering efforts, and violent crimes against children. Jan Kamenzin-Broomby reports Patel is wrapping up a visit to China.
Patel says the FBI has built relationships and found common ground to work with others. The statement comes as the US and China agreed to more exchanges and cooperation on law enforcement following meetings between Patel and Beijing's Minister of Public Security, Wang Xiaohong. Wang said that China and the US should engage in a, quote, more constructive dialogue. Patel said previously his trip to Beijing would serve to continue work on closing fentanyl precursor pipelines, and expanding operations targeting scam centers. Patel has previously said the Chinese government were the biggest counterintelligence threat facing the United States, and called for the U.S. to work together with Beijing. For NPR News, I'm Jan Cummins-Romey in Taipei.
New wildfires in Oregon and Washington are blanketing parts of the Northwest in dense smoke. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports the wildfires are prompting a renewed round of air quality and health advisories.
It's been smoky for weeks in eastern Oregon, where massive range fires have blackened tens of thousands of acres. Jenny Moe owns a popular bakery and has been doing what she can to keep replacing air filters to keep the smoke out. I've got a family friend that he's on oxygen and he hasn't been able to leave his house now for two weeks. In the southwest, some recent rains have helped clear the air. Ben Wagner is with the incident command team on the Aspen Acres fire, which has destroyed hundreds of homes near Pueblo, Colorado.
The rain has given us a reprieve and we'll take it.
But that reprieve may be short-lived. Most of the West is forecast to bake in heat for at least the next week. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Boise.
U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. You're listening to NPR News. In Berlin, the man suspected of driving a vehicle into a crowd at a pride parade last night, killing at least one person and injuring dozens of others, has been killed in a police shootout. Authorities say they found him today in a suburb and that he charged them with a sharp instrument and police opened fire. Police say he had an extensive criminal record and was associated with the radical Islamist movement. Many Native American languages are at risk of vanishing, but NPR's Caden Mills met a 12-year-old in Michigan who's hoping to change that.
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Holden Hoy is building a robot that speaks the Ojibwe language.
I was already a big fan of robotics, and I'm Ojibwe, so I've always wanted to say the Ojibwe language.
Hoy's robot sort of resembles a mini R2-D2 from Star Wars, if he was designed in Native American woodland florals.
It's fun because you can have a personalized little robot body on your shoulder, but it also teaches you Ojibwe.
You can ask it things like, how do you say bear in Ojibwe?
And it'll respond, makwa means bear.
Hoy says it's important to protect the language because generation after generation is based around this culture.
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