The Latest Wednesday Evening Headlines Seattle puts guardrails on surveillance data, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay issues order to build 500 new shelter units, and WA faces a pollution conundrum on the open water. Patricia Murphy Politics Republicans in Congress say they have a deal to end the record-long shutdown at DHS The plan would fund DHS, except for immigration enforcement, through September. Republicans would then try to fund the whole agency for three years using a tactic that would not need Democratic votes. Sam Gringlas Law & Courts Some states with legal gambling are concerned about losing a cut to new technology With college hoops in the air, lawmakers in New Hampshire and other states worry their cut of legal gambling revenue could shrink as bettors turn to the latest tech platform, prediction markets. Todd Bookman Law & Courts Supreme Court hears arguments around Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on birthright citizenship at a key political moment for President Trump. Mara Liasson World 25 years ago today, a mid-air collision sparked an 11-day U.S.–China standoff On April 1, 2001, a midair collision between an American aircraft and a Chinese plane sparked an 11-day diplomatic crisis — and the two countries still tell very different stories. Scott Tong World Who is held accountable if a war crime is committed in Iran? NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with international law expert Gabor Rona about attacks on civilian infrastructure in the Iran conflict and how they may constitute war crimes. Scott Detrow Christian therapists and LGBTQ people of faith respond to Supreme Court ruling The Supreme Court's decision outlawing bans on conversion therapy will change the legal situation in many states. An evangelical Christian therapist and LGBTQ activist share how people are responding. Jason DeRose Economy How long the Strait of Hormuz stays closed will have major economic implications What are the implications for the oil market and the broader global economy if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed for months? Camila Domonoske National Iran war adds more expense for profit-starved U.S. grain farmers New federal data shows American farmers are planting millions fewer acres of corn and wheat in response to much higher fertilizer prices since the U.S. attacked Iran. Kirk Siegler NASA prepares to send four Artemis II astronauts on a lunar flyby NASA is preparing to launch four people on a trip around the moon and back. It's the first time in more than a half-century humans are set to venture around the moon. Nell Greenfieldboyce Prev 24 of 1645 Next Sponsored
Wednesday Evening Headlines Seattle puts guardrails on surveillance data, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay issues order to build 500 new shelter units, and WA faces a pollution conundrum on the open water. Patricia Murphy
Politics Republicans in Congress say they have a deal to end the record-long shutdown at DHS The plan would fund DHS, except for immigration enforcement, through September. Republicans would then try to fund the whole agency for three years using a tactic that would not need Democratic votes. Sam Gringlas
Law & Courts Some states with legal gambling are concerned about losing a cut to new technology With college hoops in the air, lawmakers in New Hampshire and other states worry their cut of legal gambling revenue could shrink as bettors turn to the latest tech platform, prediction markets. Todd Bookman
Law & Courts Supreme Court hears arguments around Trump's order limiting birthright citizenship The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on birthright citizenship at a key political moment for President Trump. Mara Liasson
World 25 years ago today, a mid-air collision sparked an 11-day U.S.–China standoff On April 1, 2001, a midair collision between an American aircraft and a Chinese plane sparked an 11-day diplomatic crisis — and the two countries still tell very different stories. Scott Tong
World Who is held accountable if a war crime is committed in Iran? NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with international law expert Gabor Rona about attacks on civilian infrastructure in the Iran conflict and how they may constitute war crimes. Scott Detrow
Christian therapists and LGBTQ people of faith respond to Supreme Court ruling The Supreme Court's decision outlawing bans on conversion therapy will change the legal situation in many states. An evangelical Christian therapist and LGBTQ activist share how people are responding. Jason DeRose
Economy How long the Strait of Hormuz stays closed will have major economic implications What are the implications for the oil market and the broader global economy if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed for months? Camila Domonoske
National Iran war adds more expense for profit-starved U.S. grain farmers New federal data shows American farmers are planting millions fewer acres of corn and wheat in response to much higher fertilizer prices since the U.S. attacked Iran. Kirk Siegler
NASA prepares to send four Artemis II astronauts on a lunar flyby NASA is preparing to launch four people on a trip around the moon and back. It's the first time in more than a half-century humans are set to venture around the moon. Nell Greenfieldboyce