Iran-US; TPS; Election Help Fee; Gaza : NPR

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After two days of intense strikes, combating between the U.S. and Iran seems to have paused. The U.S. says it hit 170 targets in Iran. Iran says it focused U.S. army bases within the Gulf. The combating coincided with a weeklong funeral for former Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and 4 of his relations killed on the primary day of the battle.

Big crowds line the streets of the holy metropolis of Mashhad for the burial of Iran’s late supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 9, 2026 in Mashhad, Iran.

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• 🎧 Tensions stay excessive within the area, NPR’s Carrie Kahn, who’s in Tel Aviv, tells Up First. Within the latest sequence of assaults, Jordan intercepted incoming fireplace from Iran. Iran yesterday threatened the United Arab Emirates. Eyal Zamir, the Israeli armed forces chief of workers, stated that the nation is ready if combating resumes.

Hundreds of Haitian and Syrian immigrants with Short-term Protected Standing (TPS) are in danger of shedding their capacity to work within the U.S. as a consequence of a latest Supreme Courtroom ruling. The courtroom gave the Trump administration the inexperienced gentle to revoke TPS for greater than 300,000 individuals. TPS permits immigrants to legally reside in the US when circumstances of their nations make it unsafe to return.

• 🎧 Many immigrants’ work permits are tied to their TPS and their driver’s licenses are linked to these permits, says reporter Kathryn Mobley of NPR community station WYSO. Reporting from Springfield, Ohio, dwelling to a big Haitian neighborhood, Mobley says some immigrants are staying dwelling, whereas others are reaching out for assist. Native nonprofits are encouraging individuals to use for asylum, although the method is prolonged and presents no assure of safety from deportation. Some Springfield residents say they’ve already misplaced manufacturing jobs following the ruling.

President Trump dismissed the remaining members of the bipartisan U.S. Election Help Fee, drawing criticism from Democrats and voting rights advocates. A White Home official stated that Trump can take this motion because of the Slaughter resolution. Final month, in the Slaughter Case, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom dominated {that a} president has better flexibility in eradicating members of impartial federal companies.

The U.S. brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas final yr, however 9 months later, that settlement has stalled. The deal known as for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, new governance in Gaza and Hamas’s disarmament. As an alternative, Israeli forces have expanded their management from about half of Gaza firstly of the ceasefire to almost 70%, in response to Israeli officers and NPR’s evaluation. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the army is tightening its grip to encompass Hamas. For Palestinians, that has meant extra displacement, shrinking entry to help and one other cycle of grief. Greater than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed because the ceasefire took impact, in response to Gaza’s Well being Ministry. In a brand new report, NPR’s Anas Baba and Aya Batrawy doc what day by day life seems to be like for households trapped between increasing army zones, with shelling at night time, gunfire by day and nowhere protected to go.