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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military to expand its ground invasion of southern Lebanon.

Imperial Esther's Daniel Estrin reports, it comes as an Israeli soldier with U.S. citizenship was killed by Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The killed soldier was from New Haven,

Connecticut. He moved to Israel to serve in the military. Israel has been expanding its ground

invasion into neighboring Lebanon, creating what Israel calls a new buffer zone. Netanyahu is now

ordering it to be expanded. He says to thwart the threat of Hezbollah invading northern Israel

and to push anti-tank missile fire farther away from the Israeli border. Netanyahu is facing

pressure to protect residents of northern Israel who have not been evacuated from their homes

and who face daily Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks. In southern Israel, an Iranian missile attack hit a chemical plant sparking a massive fire.

Authorities ruled out a leak of hazardous substances.

Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Federal courts in parts of the country are straining under an unprecedented flood of habeas corpus petitions

from people trying to get released from immigration detention. In Pierce Martin Costi reports in some

courts, the immigration petitions are delaying other court business. Last year, the Trump administration

restricted detainees' right to post bonds to get out while their cases were pending.

Many are now turning to federal courts.

In California's Eastern District, home to three ICE detention centers, Judge Troy L. Nunley says he and his colleagues are getting hundreds of habeas corpus requests a month.

That's a liberty interest.

A liberty interest is very, very important.

And if someone is unlawfully detained and they make their case to the court, we would be

remiss if we waited to get them out of custody.

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