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Israel’s multilayered air defenses and close cooperation with allies kept the impact to a minimum. Virtually any other country in the world would have been incapable of coping with such an onslaught. | Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images Iran tried to overwhelm Israel’s air defenses with five hours of missile and drone strikes overnight — but the offensive failed spectacularly. Tehran targeted Israel with multiple waves of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as explosives-laden drones, in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate earlier this month. Despite the Iranian army…

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More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine continues to be targeted by missile and drone attacks that frequently overwhelm the country’s diminishing air defense capacities. | Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images If the United States and its allies can rush to Israel’s defense in the skies, shooting down dozens of drones and missiles fired by Iran, why can’t they do the same for Ukraine — which has suffered under Russia’s missile attacks for more than two years? That’s the question Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his country’s staunchest backers in the West…

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“By any measure, these universities have a major problem,” Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said. The statue of Alma Mater on the campus of Columbia University in New York. | APDiane Bondareff/AP A scheduling conflict spared Columbia University President Minouche Shafik from the viral moment that contributed to toppling two other college presidents, only to land her center stage for congressional scrutiny in Wednesday morning’s House education committee hearing. Months of turmoil over the Israel-Gaza war have made Columbia University an easy mark for Republicans long upset about college diversity…

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A 15th century woodcut depicts a patient suffering from the bubonic plague. A pandemic of the disease, the Black Death, killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe between 1346 and 1353. Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The bubonic plague has cropped up in Oregon for the first time in nearly a decade. This time a person likely caught it from their cat, health officials in the central part of the state said last week. Doctors identified the disease quickly and treated the person with antibiotics. They also tracked down all…

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After the Arizona Supreme Court allowed for near-total abortion ban, a group of abortion-rights protesters gathered outside the Arizona state Capitol in Phoenix on April 9, 2024. Katherine Davis-Young/KJZZ PHOENIX – Abortions will soon be outlawed in Arizona except in cases where a pregnant person’s life is at risk. The state Supreme Court has ruled Arizona should follow a restrictive abortion law dating back to the 1860s. Since Dec. 2022, Arizona doctors have been allowed to provide abortions up to 15 weeks into a pregnancy, based on a lower court’s…

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NPR suspended senior editor Uri Berliner for five days without pay after he wrote an essay accusing the network of losing the public’s trust and appeared on a podcast to explain his argument. Uri Berliner NPR has formally punished Uri Berliner, the senior editor who publicly argued a week ago that the network had “lost America’s trust” by approaching news stories with a rigidly progressive mindset. Berliner’s five-day suspension without pay, which began last Friday, has not been previously reported. Yet the public radio network is grappling in other ways…

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND – FEBRUARY 24: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump walks offstage after his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images This week on Trump’s Trials, host Scott Detrow and Domenico Montanaro are joined by constitutional expert Kim Wehle. This week the Supreme Court announced they will consider former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution. That decision has left the federal election interference case in limbo, complicating the chances that the case will go to trial before…

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 15: Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears with his legal team ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images) Pool/Getty Images For this episode of Trump’s Trials, All Things Considered host Ailsa Chang speaks with NPR’s Andrea Bernstein. Today marks the start of former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial. He is charged with 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records. Trump was in the courtroom for the day’s events. The morning was…

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Speaker Mike Johnson announced plans Monday evening to put forward four separate bills to address foreign aid funding, including to Israel and Ukraine. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images House Speaker Mike Johnson has announced a path forward on aid to Ukraine and Israel after months of delay because of GOP divisions. Iran’s unprecedent attack on Israel over the weekend increased pressure on Congress to act. Johnson plans to bring forward three separate bills on funding for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. A fourth national security bill would likely include a provision that could lead to…

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A billboard in central Tehran, Iran, depicts named Iranian ballistic missiles in service, with text in Arabic reading “the honest [person’s] promise” and text in Persian reading “Israel is weaker than a spider’s web,” on April 15. Iran attacked Israel over the weekend with missiles, which it said was a response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images After Iran sent more than 300 drones and ballistic missiles toward Israel on Saturday, Iranian state television showed purported damage on the ground with video…

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