Geoff Bennett:
Netanyahu’s visit to meet with President Trump comes as a wave of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed more than 30 people, according to health officials. Outside a hospital in Southern Gaza, a strike killed a local reporter and wounded six more journalists.
The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas militant posing as a journalist. Meantime, Israel has expanded more of its military buffer zone inside Gaza, doubling its size in recent weeks. Israel now controls more than 50 percent of the territory.
In Myanmar, the death toll from the devastating March earthquake has climbed past 3,600 people. Rescue efforts are giving way to relief and recovery operations as hope for survivors fades. People across the country cleared mounds of debris today. World powers, including China, sent new emergency aid this weekend for survivors. The U.S. has pledged $9 million of relief so far. But relief efforts have been notably absent.
As PBS News was first to report, the Trump administration last week notified the three-person disaster team from USAID of their terminations while they were on the ground in Myanmar.
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily paused a midnight deadline tonight that the Trump administration faced to bring home a man they deported by mistake. The administration admitted that Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland should not have been sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador. A judge’s order from 2019 prohibited such a move. But the administration also argued it had no way to get him back because Garcia, who they accuse of MS-13 gang ties, is no longer in U.S. custody.
Garcia’s lawyers have until tomorrow afternoon to respond.
A days-long downpour has finally let up across the Southern U.S., but it’s sent some rivers overflowing to near-record levels, posing serious flood threats, especially across Kentucky. In the state capital of Frankfort today, the Kentucky River was so swollen that bridges just barely cleared the waterline. Officials say it crested less than a foot shy of a record.
The murky floodwaters inundated businesses downtown and forced residents to abandon their belongings and flee their homes.
