Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

Beirut was on high alert today after Israel said it would escalate strikes in Lebanon against the militant group Hezbollah.

And Pierce-Jana Raf reports residents were streaming out of Beirut's largely Shiite southern suburbs.

Over one million Lebanese have already been displaced by Israeli

airstrikes despite an ongoing ceasefire. Israel has invaded southern Lebanon and launched hundreds

of attacks a day, killing more than 3,000 people since the war restarted March 2nd,

according to the Lebanese health ministry. Iran-backed Hezbollah has killed

22 soldiers and a military contractor and two civilians, Israel says. The U.S. is negotiating a peace deal

with Iran, but Israel opposes Iran's condition that the war in Lebanon also end, along with any

lasting ceasefire with the United States.

Jane Arraf and Peer News, Beirut.

The White House is closely watching a series of high-profile Supreme Court cases.

In Pierce Franco-Ordognez reports, the decisions will likely help shape debate going into this year's midterm elections and beyond.

The Supreme Court justices are expected to issue major rulings on immigration, mail-in ballots, and presidential power.

President Trump has taken advantage of almost every opportunity to pressure the justices to back him,

as he did recently on his efforts to restrict

birthright citizenship. It would be a disgrace. It would be a disgrace if the Supreme Court

of the United States allows that to happen. Trump even attended oral arguments on the birthright

case, a first by a sitting president.

Trump has said, though, he thinks the court will instead confirm the constitutional right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil.

Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.

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