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What are the latest developments on the USS George Washington and USS Abraham Lincoln in the Iran war?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Pacific based aircraft carrier USS George Washington is heading toward the Middle East. This comes after reports of mental health and supply issues aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has spent a record-setting 240 days at sea supporting the Iran war. Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton is a Marine veteran and one of the lawmakers demanding answers about the reported conditions on the ship.
It's so obvious that nobody here believes in the mission. I don't believe in the mission. How can our troops floating around the Gulf believe in this mission when it's been an abject failure, when it's actually done more to empower Iran than can curtail their nuclear weapons program or anything else? And that's why we gotta end this war.
Independent military news outlet Stars and Stripes reported family members and sailors saying the roughly five thousand service members aboard the Lincoln have endured food and water shortages, disrupted mail service, and long work days with little time off.
How is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee becoming a flashpoint in the money‑in‑politics debate?
The Navy acknowledged the Iran War has created an environment, quote, where traditional supply hubs in the Middle East were disrupted by combat actions. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or APAC, is focused on strengthening the US Israel partnership. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, it's become the center of a debate over money and politics.
APAC's affiliated Super PAC has spent about sixty-two million dollars in this cycle, according to Open Secrets, which tracks campaign spending. For comparison, that's close to the amount spent by crypto and AI related super PACs. APAC is often singled out by name in ads and in campaign speeches, becoming a proxy for growing distaste for money and politics. Here's Democratic political analyst Van Jones.
Now it seems like APAC has somehow become the symbol of everything that's wrong with like money and politics.
The organization faces a difficult moment.
What is the current situation and rescue effort after the devastating Colombian earthquake?
For decades there was strong bipartisan support for Israel, support that has waned in the last few years. Barbara Sprint and Peer News, Washington.
Search and rescue operations continue in Western Columbia. Three days after a powerful earthquake killed more than two hundred and seventy people. About five hundred others remain missing. The mayor of one of the hardest hit areas is asking residents to cooperate with rescue efforts. Reporter John Otis has more from the city of California.
Colombian officials know they are in a race against the clock to find people trapped in collapsed buildings. Colli Mayor Alejandro Ayr says they are now focusing on seven sites in the earthquake zone where they have the best chance to save people.
How are new UCSF findings changing treatment for low‑risk prostate cancer in the VA system?
The mayor also called on Cali residents to avoid the disaster zone so as not to cause traffic jams or get in the way of rescue teams. He added that workers inside the buildings need silence so their listening devices can detect signs of life. For MPR News, I'm John Otis in Cali, Columbia.
Major US stock indexes rose today. This is NPR News. The company that operates the network of flock cameras that record license plate numbers of passing vehicles is making changes intended to quell privacy concerns and address abuses by some law enforcement members once optional guardrails will be mandatory by january first. Among them, all law enforcement customers will have to implement an audit tool that's intended to flag abnormal search behavior. New research from UC San Francisco reflects a change in care for low-risk prostate cancers in the veterans' health care system. April Dembosky of KQED reports more physicians aren't defaulting to invasive treatments.
Why is baseball being played in an Iowa cornfield and how does it tie into NPR’s cultural coverage?
Historically, low-risk prostate cancers were treated aggressively with surgery and radiation. This often led to devastating side effects like incontinence and erectile dysfunction. UCSF urologist Matt Cooperberg says many of these men were overdiagnosed and over-treated.
Meaning men would go on to surgery, radiation therapy, other treatments that they did not need, that did not extend their life, and only threatened their quality of life.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What are the latest developments on the USS George Washington and USS Abraham Lincoln in the Iran war?
0:00–0:58
2
How is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee becoming a flashpoint in the money‑in‑politics debate?
0:58–1:48
3
What is the current situation and rescue effort after the devastating Colombian earthquake?
1:48–2:33
4
How are new UCSF findings changing treatment for low‑risk prostate cancer in the VA system?
2:33–3:39
5
Why is baseball being played in an Iowa cornfield and how does it tie into NPR’s cultural coverage?
3:39–4:29
6
What makes a cover song perfect enough to eclipse the original, according to NPR Music?
4:29–5:03