The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media.

The recisions package now moves on to the Senate.

This move poses a serious threat to local stations and public media as we know it.

Please take a stand for public media today at goacpr.org. Thank you. Hi, this is Emily from

Tadapie, California, and I'm about to perform the end-of-year dancer's cycle alongside my daughter

and the rest of the talented dancers at Dance Philosophy. This podcast was recorded at

244 p.m. on Monday, June 23rd. Things may have changed by the time

you hear it, but myself and the rest of the dancers will have already taken our final bows for the season.

Okay, here's the show. I get the sense that this is something she likes doing and her kids are also kind of following in her footsteps.

Or maybe she's an instructor.

But I've been in those other situations where the kid wants to do something and I'm not good at it and I have to do it.

And that's never any fun.

Nobody wants that.

Hey there.

It's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And I'm Domenico Matanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Iran has launched missiles at a U.S. Air Force base in Qatar. All were intercepted. And a U.S. official tells NPR there are no reports of U.S. casualties.

This comes in response to the U.S.

airstrikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend. We're going to break down

what all of this means, but Greg, let's start with what we know about today's missile strikes

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