--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): This message comes from NPR sponsor, FX's The Lowdown, starring Ethan Hawke. This new crime drama follows quirky journalist Lee Raybon, whose obsession with the truth always gets him into trouble. FX's The Lowdown, all new Tuesdays on FX. Stream on Hulu.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can continue to withhold over $4 billion in foreign aid approved by Congress.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): A lower court ordered the administration to release the funds, but the Supreme Court's conservative majority said Trump's foreign policy authority outweighed the harms claimed by international aid groups.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): A New York immigration officer has been placed on administrative leave after video circulated online showed him pushing a woman against the wall and to the ground.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): NPR's Jimena Bustillo reports.
--:-- Jimena Bustillo: NPR was in the courthouse last month rolling when the same officer aggressively arrested a court observer.
--:-- Jimena Bustillo: DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin says in a statement that the officers' latest actions caught on camera yesterday are, quote, unacceptable and beneath the men and women of ICE.
--:-- Jimena Bustillo: There have been growing tensions between federal law enforcement and the public and immigration courts as agents are tasked with making more arrests.
--:-- Jimena Bustillo: Over the last five months, ICE had a bigger footprint inside immigration courts which are operated by the Justice Department.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Federal immigration officials have detained the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Iowa Public Radio's Isabella Liu reports.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Des Moines Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop initiated by ICE agents.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Roberts is from Guyana in South America, but grew up in Brooklyn.
--:-- Isabella Liu: ICE says he received a final removal order last year.
--:-- Isabella Liu: The agency also says there were weapon charges against him in 2020 and a loaded gun was found in his car.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Des Moines School Board Chair Jackie Norris says she hasn't been able to verify new information, but praised how Roberts led the district.
--:-- Isabella Liu: We do not have all the facts. There is much we do not know.
--:-- Isabella Liu: What we do know is that Dr. Roberts has been an integral part of our school community since he joined over two years ago.
--:-- Isabella Liu: Roberts led the district since 2023 as Des Moines' first black superintendent.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): For NPR News, I'm Isabella Liu in Des Moines.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made this claim at the United Nations today.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Thanks to special efforts by Israeli intelligence, my words are now also being carried. They're streamed live to the cell phones of Gazans.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): But NPR's Emily Fang reports few if any in Gaza heard Netanyahu.
--:-- Emily Fang: The Prime Minister office shared pictures of big loudspeakers mounted on trucks in Israel on the border with Gaza to blast Netanyahu speech into the enclave.
--:-- Emily Fang: News outlets, including NPR, contacted people across Gaza who say they didn't hear anything.
--:-- Emily Fang: NPR's producer in Gaza City, Anas Baba, also kept an ear out for Netanyahu's speech.
--:-- Emily Fang: He said that he's going to broadcast a message to the Israeli hostages.
--:-- Emily Fang: But in Gaza City now, the only thing that we can hear here is the Israeli airstrikes, the artilleries and the tanks firing.
--:-- Emily Fang: And dozens of diplomats walked out of the United Nations Assembly Hall ahead of Netanyahu's speech.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): For NPR News, I'm Emily Fang, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Denmark saw more drones in its airspace this week.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): And Sweden also had sightings of what were described as large unmanned aerial vehicles.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): As Terry Schultz reports, the EU held an urgent meeting to address the lack of counter-drone capabilities.
--:-- Terry Schultz: Air traffic in Alborg in northern Denmark was disrupted by drones for a second night Thursday, forcing a KLM flight from Amsterdam to turn around and canceling one coming from Copenhagen.
--:-- Terry Schultz: Three other regional airports also reported the presence of mysterious aerial vehicles, part of what Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has termed a hybrid war on her country.
--:-- Terry Schultz: EU defense ministers met virtually with their Ukrainian counterpart to discuss how to quickly improve their ability to stop these incursions.
--:-- Terry Schultz: EU Defense Commissioner Andreas Kubilius ran the meeting from Helsinki.
--:-- Terry Schultz: We are facing clear challenges.
--:-- Terry Schultz: Russia is testing the EU and NATO, and our response must be firm, united and immediate.
--:-- Terry Schultz: Kubilius said it's now urgent to move from discussion to concrete action.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Copenhagen.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): A London court has thrown out a terror-related charge against a member of the Irish rap group NECAP.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): Rapper Mo Chara had been charged after waving a flag of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah during a London concert last year.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): But a judge said the case should be thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against the rapper was brought.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): The Dutch government says it will return a world-renowned collection of more than 28,000 fossils to Indonesia after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial area against the will of the people.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): The trove is known as the Dubois collection and includes a piece of the skull regarded as the first fossil evidence of Homo erectus.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): This message comes from Mint Mobile.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): From the gas pump to the grocery store, inflation is everywhere.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): So Mint Mobile is offering premium wireless starting at just $15 a month.
--:-- Host (Ryland Barton): To get your new phone plan for just $15, go to mintmobile.com slash switch.
