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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Pakistan says it will avenge the deaths of

those killed by an Indian missile strike. Pakistan calling the strikes an act of war and saying it down several

Indian fighter jets. India, for its part, claims the attack was in retaliation for last month's

massacre of Indian tourists. MPR's Dia Hadid has more on concerns the conflict could escalate

between the two nuclear armed rivals. Another say Pakistan may launch its own military strikes because India struck

places in Pakistan that it hasn't hit in more than 50 years, not since a war in 1971.

And a Pakistani security analyst, Abdallah Khan, tells me, the army may need to show deterrence

by striking back into India. The current confrontation is the worst since 2019 when the two countries came close to

all-out war. India's indicated, though it does not intend to further escalate the situation.

House Republicans have given tentative approval to sell thousands of acres of federal public lands

in Nevada and Utah.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reports on the controversial provision that was added back into a budget bill late last night.

The amendment authorizes the sale of more than 10,000 acres of federal lands.

Most of the proposed sale appears to be aimed at building housing outside Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, and St. George, Utah,

which Republican Celeste Molloy represents.

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