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"Good morning Russian forces appear largely stalled in Ukraine as the U.S. and NATO meet to talk about how to hold Moscow accountable President Biden has said to want more sanctions National security adviser Jake Sullivan The west has been united The president is traveling to Europe to ensure we stay united To cement our collective resolve I'm Michael hill as morning edition from NPR and doubly NYC We'll get the latest from New Orleans after tornado killed at least one person in Ohio a redistricting fight is left candidates unsure where to put signs and voters confused about who's on the ballot And the new organization looks to help New York City families whose children were wrongly taken by child protective services It's Wednesday march 23rd the news is next Live from NPR news I'm korva Coleman a tornado smashed through the New Orleans metro area Tuesday night killing one person A lot of damages reported to cars and homes trees and power lines There are reports that several people are hurt Teams hope to get a better sense of the damage with daylight The severe weather hit Louisiana a day after more than a dozen suspected tornadoes touched down in central and northern Texas one woman there was killed Ukrainian officials say they've managed to get thousands of civilians out of combat zones over the last 24 hours but NPR's Jason Bobby and reports from lviv that efforts to get tens of thousands of others to safety have failed Ukrainian deputy prime minister erna Vera shook says that Ukrainian and Russian officials have repeatedly worked out agreements to send evacuation buses and humanitarian supplies into areas that have been cut off by the fighting Some of the convoys have been successful for instance she says they were able to get roughly 7000 people out of the besieged city of mariupol on Tuesday But another convoy to Harrison couldn't get past the first Russian checkpoint and had to turn around Things went far worse at a village west of mariupol where ver schrute says 11 buses along with their drivers were seized by Russian soldiers and now in her words are being held hostage Jason Bobby and NPR news lviv The UN General Assembly is expected to vote today on a draft resolution on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine a second resolution proposed by South Africa could also be voted upon Linda foci reports Russia is proposing its own resolution on the Ukrainian humanitarian situation to the UN Security Council Two separate General Assembly draft resolutions have been under discussion the first cost sponsored by the U.S. and some 20 countries makes clear that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the cause of the humanitarian crisis there The other proposed by South Africa does not U.S. ambassadors to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield said Tuesday that diplomats have been trying to blend the two proposals so as not to split a vote Linda Faso reporting A more contagious sub variant of the omicron strain of the coronavirus now makes up a majority of new infections in the United States and bears rob Stein reports on the latest estimates from the CDC The CDC estimates that this more contagious sub variant called BA two now accounts for more than a third of new infections nationally and more than half of cases in the northeast Helix a genetic company analyzing the virus for this CDC estimates the virus may account for as many as 70% of new infections in many parts of the country Public health experts are watching this sub variant very closely because it has sparked new surges in parts of Asia and Europe including the UK What happens in Britain often foreshadows what happens in the U.S. rob Stein and PR news You're listening to NPR news You're listening to double NYC at 7 O four good Wednesday morning 41 partly cloudy as the sun is rising there We might get some rain this afternoon in a high of just 49 New York lieutenant governor Ryan Benjamin was a member of the state Senate when he and his colleagues voted to eliminate cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felonies in 2019 Now he's back in governor Hogan's plan to roll back portions of those reforms including by granting judges greater discretion to set bail Benjamin defended the plan yesterday as a targeted approach and noted it would put more funding toward pretrial services The governor believes that we should have a scalpel like approach here we should only try to address things that we think will meaningfully deal with some of the issues.
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"Pause in the rises or they could accelerate but the only unlikely thing is for them to drop right now I'm Sean Carlson It's morning edition from NPR and WNYC We'll speak to a member of Ukraine's parliament about food insecurity in the country and abroad as a result of the Russian invasion A look at what's in this spending bill President Biden signed last week and quarterback in two time loser to the Giants in the Super Bowl Tom Brady has un retired It's Monday march 14th the news is next Live from NPR news in Washington I'm korva Coleman negotiators for Ukraine and Russia are supposed to meet my video link today This would be their fourth round of talks They may discuss how to get badly needed food water and medicine to Ukrainian civilians under attack In Ukraine the situation is dire for hundreds of thousands of people living in the southern port city of Mario Paul The international committee of the Red Cross says Russia has incessantly bombed the city The IRC's Martin shreve says the Red Cross can not get emergency supplies to people They managed to help together with the Ukrainian Red Cross some of the medical stations provide first date However today the situation is such that they themselves are out of basics out of food out of water out of everything and they themselves have to scramble for their lives The UN's high commissioner for refugees says nearly 2.7 million people have fled Ukraine since the war started President Biden is sending his national security adviser for talks with his Chinese counterpart today the meetings in Italy and PR's Windsor Johnston reports the meeting comes admit increasing concerns that China is amplifying Russian disinformation about the war The U.S. has accused China of spreading false rushing claims that Ukraine was running chemical and biological weapons labs with U.S. support National security adviser Jake Sullivan also told CNN the administration is watching closely to see if Beijing provides any form of material or economic support to Russia Large scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them we will not allow that and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country The White House has expressed its frustration in recent weeks that China has not joined the international coalition pressuring Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine Windsor Johnston NPR news Washington Government officials in Iraq summoned the Iranian ambassador the Iraqi officials have denounced Iran's launch of a series of missiles at the northern Iraqi city of Irbil NPR's Jason Bobby and reports these Iranian missiles landed near a U.S. consulate compound Iran's revolutionary guard has taken responsibility for the barrage of missiles that rain down on a residential neighborhood here State run media in Iran say the air strikes targeted Israeli Mossad agents and the assault was in retaliation for Israel killing two revolutionary guard members last week A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department says that the U.S. consulate compound was not hit and there's no indication that the attack was directed at the United States Iraq's National Security Council was called into an emergency session on Sunday to discuss the crisis The council denounced the air strikes as a violation of Iraq's sovereignty and vowed to press for a full explanation from Tehran Jason Bowie and NPR news erbil Iraq You're listening to NPR news from Washington And it's on double D when my C in New York good morning everybody I'm Sean Carlson We have delays on southbound four trains this hour On NJ transit the Mars Essex line is running limited service between south orange New York Penn station and Hoboken due to repairs from last week's windstorm The gladstone branch also remained suspended cross honoring is an effect on the routine valley in montclair Bhutan lines as well as NJ transit and private buses The New Jersey coastline is running with 20 minute delays today NYPD officials say a string of shootings involving homeless individuals may be related Police say they are searching for a man suspected of attacking multiple suspects who were sleeping on the streets in Washington D.C. and New York City killing two of his victims and injuring three others Two homeless men were shot in Manhattan early Saturday morning one of those men died Another shooting involves a homeless man happened last night but an officers could not say whether it was related New York City's wastewater holds clues for scientists about how the coronavirus might evolve That's the message John dennehy emphasized at a city council hearing on the city's wastewater surveillance program late last week Denny has a virologist at queens college who has been working to identify which variants of the virus are present in wastewater samples We've noted a few what we call cryptic variant that had been circulating in New York City wastewater probably chin the very beginning of the pandemic These so called cryptic variants have not shown up in human COVID tests but then he said that he thought they could give way to the next major strain that does circulate among New Yorkers Then he's lab received nearly $2 million in the federal spending bill passed last week to support training in the field of wastewater epidemiology New York City will break ground on 104 park projects this spring announcing the project's yesterday along with mayor Adams parks commissioner Sue Donahue said the focus will be on equitable and sustainable parks and that 62% of the new projects will be in underserved neighborhoods Donahue spoke at Saratoga spark park in bed Stein Brooklyn where she says the administration is upgrading a neighborhood playground that hasn't seen major improvements in more than 20 years Every community deserves a part they can be proud of And it shouldn't depend on what zip code or how much money you make The projects are expected to be completed by the summer of 2023 A nice day today great.
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"Morning the search for survivors from Friday's tornadoes continues in Kentucky Homeland Security secretary Alejandro mayorkas toward the area He says federal help is on the way We'll talk with him about what's next We will get through this We will grieve together but we will also recover together I'm Michael hill it's morning edition from NPR and WNYC The Supreme Court will allow New York State's vaccine mandate for healthcare workers to move ahead newly revealed text messages show Fox News anchors pleaded with then president Trump to call off the January 6th rioters And a year ago today a nursing queens became the first person in the U.S. to get an authorized shot of a COVID vaccine It's Tuesday December 14th the news is next Live from NPR news in Washington on korva Coleman The U.S. House could vote today to refer criminal charges for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in Pierre's Claudia grisales reports the charge against former president Donald Trump's ally comes after the panel investigating the capital insurrection voted to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress How select committee member Liz Cheney read some of meadow's text messages he did turn over before he stopped cooperating including several from Donald Trump Jr. He's got to condemn this ASAP The capitol police tweet is not enough Trump Junior also told Meadows that quote it has gone too far and gotten out of hand Cheney also read messages from personalities from the Fox cable channel pleading with Meadows to get Trump to call off the violence The house is expected to approve the contempt referral sending it to the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute if so Meadows could face a year in jail and fines Claude grisales NPR news Washington conditions remain catastrophic in parts of several states following last Friday's deadly tornadoes Dozens of people were killed in 5 states at least 74 people died in Kentucky at more than 100 others are still missing NPR's Brian man joined a surge team in the town of Dawson springs The crew I joined moved through a neighborhood that was just shredded the ground so littered with debris and sharp metal We had to kind of pick our way along and volunteers sifting through this wreckage looking for any remains any survivors or victims The crew I was with did find the body of one man on a previous day search so the conditions were just horrific a lot of tension every time someone lifted a piece of debris There was real fear of what might be underneath And beer is Brian Mann reporting from Dawson springs Kentucky Prosecutors in California allege a father and son started the devastating caldor fired this summer with a firearm from camp radio and Sacramento Scott rod reports the two had their bail reduced at a court hearing on Monday Witnesses heard several gunshots after David Scott Smith and his son Travis Shane Smith entered a heavily wooded area That's according to the El Dorado county district attorney's office Prosecutors claim the two men fired the shots and bare responsibility for starting the blaze The district attorney saw $1 million bail for each suspect but a judge has reduced it significantly David Smith is being held on $25,000 bail Travis Smith on $50,000 bail Defense attorney Linda parisi says they are not a flight risk No prior criminal record productive members of society This is their community their home The caldor fire burned over 220,000 acres and destroyed over 1000 structures For NPR news I'm Scott rod in El Dorado county You're listening to NPR news You're listening to WNYC at 7 O four 52 and sunny today 46 and mostly clear now good morning I'm Michael hill The MTA plans to offer users of the fair payment system Omni unlimited weekly passes if they buy a certain number of single trips in a week doubling NYC's Steven Nelson reports Currently writers who use the new tap and go fare payment system can only purchase single $2 and 75 cent trips unlike the MetroCard which still offers weekly end 30 day unlimited passes But this spring the MTA wants to run a pilot in which users who spend $33 within a week the equivalent of 12 rides will automatically be granted an unlimited pass for the rest of that week The MTA expects in the short run this could cost them up to $5 million a month but the agency is trying to lure writers back to the system Subway ridership is still a little more than half of what it was before the pandemic The MTA board will vote on the fair proposal Wednesday New Jersey residents can now get a COVID-19 test kit sent to their home.
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"Bad day The Donald Trump and the NRA I'm Michael hill This morning edition from NPR and WNYC Workers at a Starbucks in Buffalo have voted to unionize it's a first for the coffee chain Families have children shot or traumatized in the school shooting in Oxford Michigan are suing the district for failing to keep their kids safe And Noel king is leaving morning edition We look back at some of her memorable moments on the show It's Friday December 10th the news is next Live from NPR news on korva Coleman a British court has ruled the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange could be extradited to the U.S. despite previous concerns about his mental health villa marks reports from London The U.S. government had appealed an earlier ruling from January in which a judge determined Assange might face restrictive prison conditions that would cause a deterioration in his mental state and could even prompt suicide attempts But following assurances from American authorities that he would not face solitary confinement or incarceration in a supermax facility unless he committed further criminal acts Britain's high court has now granted a U.S. extradition request a Saunders wanted for WikiLeaks 2010 and 2011 publishing of thousands of classified documents and he spent much of the past decade either in a British prison or living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London while resisting earlier efforts by Sweden to extradite him the NPR news I'm villa marks in London The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending Pfizer's COVID-19 booster shot for 16 and 17 year olds They need to be 6 months out from their second dose of the vaccine The CDC says daily reports of coronavirus infections have risen by about a third since Thanksgiving They say the delta variant is responsible for nearly all of them New data from South Africa show that omicron is the most infectious coronavirus variant to hit that country but it appears Ada Peralta reports the data also shows some good news South Africa's minister of health doctor Jo pala says the reproductive number for the omicron variant is way higher than previous variants However he says there is really no need for alum We expect this variant to behave the same way as the previous variants Indeed early data from hospitals keeps showing that most people who are vaccinated are experiencing mild symptoms Data from South African labs shows that a Macron is able to escape some of the immunity built by the Pfizer vaccine Scientists say those findings are matching what they are seeing on the ground An ongoing study of vaccinated health workers for example has found many have gotten infected but they've recovered quickly In pair news Cape Town Testimony resumes today in Minnesota for a white ex police officer Minnesota public radio's mad sepic reports Kimberly Potter is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting death of a young black man Dante Wright Thursday jurors heard writes girlfriend Elena albrecht patent described the immediate aftermath of the shooting Potter's attorneys say she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her taser during an April traffic stop The presiding judge denied a motion for a mistrial after defense attorneys said graphic video and medical testimony from first responders would prejudice the jury Matt sepic reporting President Biden will attend a private memorial service today for senator Bob Dole the body of the late Kansas Republican and former presidential nominee lay in state on Thursday in the U.S. capitol rotunda You're listening to NPR news You're listening to WNYC at 7 O four Michael hill Good morning overcast and 41 going up to near 50 today New York attorney general letitia James is ending her campaign for governor and will run for reelection next year in his statement James said she wanted to continue her work on a number of important investigations in cases already underway Current governor Kathy hoku who is running for a full term in next year's election says James called her to tell her she was bowing out hulk says she supports James reelection bid This is a very bad day for Donald Trump and the NRA When we have when we have tiss James one of the finest attorney generals in the country very focused on making sure the justice is done Democratic nomination include New York City public advocate Williams and Long Island congressman Tom swazi that primary election is next June After a two year court battle New York City has released new documents raising further questions about mayor de Blasio's fundraising practices NYC Elizabeth Kim has more In 2014 the conflicts of interest board warned the mayor not to ask people with business before the city to donate to his now defunct nonprofit campaign for one New York But he did so anyway according to letters made public following a New York Times lawsuit The mayor was never criminally charged but Betsy got bam head of the good government group citizens union says the new details will further damage his legacy As a law says you should not take funds from people doing business with the city He knows that's wrong We all know that's wrong They are all spokeswoman said de Blasio has always quote acted in good faith New York City city council has voted to allow the civilian complaint review board the city's police watchdog agency the power to initiate investigations into police misconduct instead of relying on complaints from citizens who might fear retaliation from reporting that misconduct The bill's sponsor council member Adrian Adams of queens praised the vote As a council we have passed many great reforms on policing this past year and this is the latest reform that will make a difference for all New Yorkers Mayor de Blasio's office.
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"Npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman. President biden says three quarters of americans have gotten their first shot of a covert nineteen vaccine. But he says one quarter had not gotten any biden says that he's derailing efforts to fight the pandemic in the us. He's decided to require millions of americans to get inoculated. Npr's asked my hollywood reports. Biden's vaccine mandate includes certain private sector workers that he is going to require that companies with a hundred or more employees ensure that their workers are either vaccinated or if not they agree to weekly testing for federal workers and contractors. There will be no weekly testing option. Essentially the message for them as if you've Want to work for the federal government if you wanna work with the federal government. You've got to be vaccinated. Npr's osma holland reporting some republicans are very angry over. Biden's actions saying these are an unconstitutional overreach. The republican national committee says it will take the vaccine mandate issue to court. The justice department is worried that other states will imitate a strict texas abortion law. npr's carrie johnson reports. The federal government is now suing to block. That law attorney. General merrick garland says the new texas law defies the constitution texas bans most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape oriented best other. Gop led states are considering similar legislation. But the justice department says laws that allow so-called bounty hunters to sue people who help women get abortions could be deployed to target other constitutional rights. The doj case has been assigned to a federal judge appointed by former president obama but the supreme court is likely to have the final word carrie johnson. Npr news washington cia director. William burns met with senior pakistani officials in islamabad on thursday to discuss regional security concerns as npr's jackie northern reports from islamabad. It is the first high level visit to pakistan by a us official. Since american troops pulled out of afghanistan late last month burns met with arguably the two most powerful men in pakistan. The head of the country's intelligence agency lieutenant general faez hammeed and military chief general. Calmer javad bourgeois according to a government statement. The focus of the talks was how to stabilize the region after the taliban seized power in neighboring afghanistan pakistan has long been accused of providing support end sanctuary for the taliban last week pakistan's intelligence chief travel to afghantistan to meet with taliban leaders pakistan is helping in the effort to get stranded people including americans out of afghanistan. Either across the border or putting them up in hotels in islamabad. Jackie northam. Npr news islamabad. This is npr news. Kentucky's republican led legislature has voted to block any mask mandates in schools. They meant to pass the bill in a special session. Democratic governor andy bashir immediately vetoed it but the kentucky lawmakers quickly overrode his veto. Any decision to require children to wear masks in kentucky schools now passes to local governments kentucky. Hospitals are overloaded with cova cases. A situation the governor warns is dire former president. Donald trump is endorsing a candidate to run against wyoming republican congresswoman. Liz cheney wyoming public. radio's bob beck reports. She is a lawyer who wants helped. Cheney get elected trump said in a news release that he strongly endorses harriet haeggman. Who's a former republican national committee woman and gubernatorial candidate trump interviewed hagan and others in an effort to find someone who could defeat cheney after she voted to impeach him in her announcement. Heyman says she's running against cheney because quote she betrayed wyoming betrayed the country and she betrayed me unquote hagan will join a number of other state. Republicans hoping to defeat cheney including a pair of state. Legislators cheney responded with the announcement quote bring it for npr news. i'm bob back in laramie. Federal judges ruled florida's. New law against rioting is unconstitutional. The judge says it is an assault on free speech and is vaguely written. It has been backed by florida. Republican governor ron disentis opponents sued saying the law targets black. Protestors i'm korva coleman. Npr news in washington..
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"Editors top health journal say. That's why it's urgent to stop climate. Change they're calling on world leaders to make bigger cuts in heat trapping emissions something that will be negotiated in november at the international climate summit without that the editorial says the effects on public health could be catastrophic lauren summer. Npr news you're listening to npr news from washington a group that's leading the resistance to the military junta now controlling myanmar and mark is calling for a national uprising. The group the national unity government considers itself a shadow government for me in mar. it's leaders are urging everyone in that country to revolt the military who to seized power in me and more last february there has been a lot of fighting in some regions of the country. Security is being stepped up today in brazil ahead of independence holidays celebrations. Npr's philip reeve says. Supporters of brazil's far right president. Shire bolsonaro are planning mass demonstrations. Boston auto is mobilizing his face. Hoping for a huge show of political strength the largest demonstrations will be in sao paulo. And the capital brasilia. Bolsonaro plans to appear at birth to counter critics who say he catastrophically mishandled the code pandemic and that he's unpopular week. Tensions are running high. Bolsonaro has threatened brazil's democratic institutions multiple times some of his hardline supporters. Want a military coup. Boston auto insists. The demonstrations will be peaceful yet. His opponents warned they could trigger an attempt to storm. Brazil supreme court or congress much like january the sixth in washington. Dc for the breeze. Npr news brasilia in the us first lady. Jill biden is returning to the classroom today. Dr biden will resume her in person writing and english classes at northern virginia community college. She has been teaching there since two thousand nine. I'm korva coleman. Npr news in washington..
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"Us hurricane ida is blamed for at least four deaths in mississippi and louisiana. The storm devastated large parts of the gulf. Coast knocking out critical infrastructure. Npr's debbie elliott reports officials in new orleans. Say some small sections of the city got their power back yesterday. Louisiana officials say getting power restored if only to a fraction of the more than a million who lost electricity and ida is a sign of progress but challenges remain. There are widespread fuel shortages. More than half a million people are without water and sewer systems. aren't working jefferson parish. president. Cynthia lee shang was able to see the scope of the damage by helicopter. Utter devastation. you i would. We flew over grand isle. We flew over. Lafitte it's like you take a little house. You crumple it up in from the helicopter. It looks like matchsticks like a little pile of matchsticks sharing his telling residents who evacuated ahead of the storm. Not to come back yet. Debbie elliott. Npr news new orleans. The white house says president biden will travel to new orleans tomorrow. He'll meet with state and local leaders and view recovery efforts. The state of washington has appealed controversial bankruptcy settlement for purdue pharma the maker of the opioid oxycontin. Npr's brian man reports a federal. Judge approved. Deal yesterday that grants immunity from opiate lawsuits to the company's owners members of the sackler family. The sackler issued statements. Praising this outcome and again denying any wrongdoing. They've agreed to pay four point. Three billion dollars and give up control of their bankrupt drug company. The settlement approved by judge. Robert drain shelters them from any future lawsuits linked to the opioid crisis. Critics say produce farmers marketing of oxycontin helped spark an addiction epidemic killed hundreds of thousands of people in the us attorneys for washington state have appealed the bankruptcy settlement. The justice department has also said it might challenge the deal if upheld this plan will provide billions of dollars in funding for drug treatment programs brian man. Npr news you're listening to npr news from washington the us special climate on voi- john kerry is finishing his trip to asia. Today he meant china's foreign minister to discuss joint efforts to combat climate change. Their meeting comes ahead of a world. Climate summit planned for november in scotland but china's foreign minister says the us needs to put aside political differences to tackle this shared problem that includes us demands about human rights in china and hong kong. The state department has extended a ban on us citizens traveling to north korea that was imposed during the trump administration. Npr's anthony kyun reports from seoul. The one year extension takes effect today. The state department says that. Us citizens continue to face possible arrest and long-term detention in north korea so us passports will continue to be invalid for travel there. The ban was enacted in twenty seventeen after the detention and subsequent death of cincinnati. College student otto warmbier. Who was accused of stealing a propaganda. Poster critics say the band's extension goes against the biden administration stated intentions to allow humanitarian aid into north korea and allow americans with family in the north to be reunited the band mentioned possible exceptions for humanitarian aid workers and journalists but not for family. Reunions anthony kuhn. Npr news seoul. The national civil rights museum in tennessee says it will present one of its freedom awards this year two former first lady michelle obama. The museum will also award the leaders of the poor people's campaign which works to fight racism and poverty. I'm korva coleman. Npr news in washington..
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"Some of them are ending up in this parking lot of a casino where i am. They're confused they're telling me They're just feeling lucky to get out. One man just told me. He spent an hour stalled out in traffic trying to escape He doesn't know of his home is still standing like so many other people. You told me the flames were about ten minutes away Before he got out. Npr's kirk siegler reporting from near south lake tahoe in california. You're listening to npr news from washington us. Climate on john kerry is in japan. He's speaking with leaders about how to include developing nations and world effort to fight climate change. He'll go next to china for talks ahead of the un world. Climate conference cop twenty six. It set for scotland in november. The house select committee investigating the january sixth attack on the us capital is ordering several telecom giants to preserve cellphone records. That are tied to that attack. Npr's cloudy agree. Alice reports the committee is targeting allies of former president donald trump including some members of congress. The select committee is ordering thirty. Five companies to preserve records including calls and text messages made by trump allies and members of congress who took part in rallies on january six as well as those criminally charged in the siege. The nine member committee led by democratic chairman. Bennie thompson told the companies that they plan to deliver more specific requests as a panel continues. Its work the orders. Follow a first wave of document requests last week to several federal agencies and preservation orders to social media companies tied to misinformation spread before the attack cloudy silas. Npr news washington the centers for disease control and prevention says more than nine hundred thousand. New corona virus infections have been reported in the us and the past seven days. Nearly thirty nine million cases have been reported since the start of the pandemic more than six hundred thirty. Six thousand people have perished in the us of covert nineteen. I'm korva coleman. Npr news from washington..
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"401k live from npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman. The white house says more than eighty two thousand americans. Afghans and other nationals have been evacuated from kabul president biden says will withdraw from afghanistan by his deadline. August thirty first german chancellor. Angela merkel is one of several leaders from g seven nations who met with him yesterday and wanted to extend that deadline as me. Nicholson has more speaking to journalists in berlin after the g seven virtual summit chancellor merckel chose her words carefully saying the talks have not resulted in quote new dates for the end of the evacuation mission. When asked whether there was criticism of president biden's decision to stick to the august thirty first withdrawal date merkel's insisted the chaos in afghanistan is something for which all nato countries must accept responsibility. Merckel stressed that without the us its nato allies cannot continue the evacuation mission. The german chancellor also said that germany is ready to work with and iran to help support refugees from afghanistan for npr news. I'm as me. Nicholson in berlin vice. President harris is traveling in vietnam. She has been repeatedly questioned about the chaotic. Us withdrawal from afghanistan era says the focus now should only be on evacuating people from the country reporter. Michael sullivan is in thailand. And his following harris's trip in south east asia. She stayed very much on message assuring. Washington's partners in south east asia that the region is critically important in her words to us security and prosperity and on the latter point. She emphasized the growing economic interdependence between the two and then of course she also talked about security and the other elephant in the room. China michael sullivan reporting. The supreme court has blocked effort by the biden administration to get rid of trump era policy affecting people who are seeking asylum in the us. The justices upheld a lower federal court. Decision keeping the trump era program known as remain in mexico immigration rights activists say thousands of asylum. Applicants are waiting there in dire conditions for their cases to be heard in the us. The house has narrowly approved a budget resolution that sets up the blueprint for a three point five trillion dollar spending deal. Npr's windsor. johnston has more the budget. Blueprint passed along. Party lines advancing democrats efforts to pass hundreds of billions in new spending on childcare education and measures to combat climate change. It will allow democrats to pass the bill using a budget. Reconciliation process without support from republicans. Tuesday's critical vote came after days of infighting that pit left-leaning progressives against more moderate democrats with the budget resolution and two separate bipartisan infrastructure. Bill hanging in the balance in order to break the stalemate house speaker. Nancy pelosi has committed to passing the infrastructure measure by september. Twenty seventh windsor johnston. Npr news washington. You're listening to npr. News drugmaker johnson and johnson says it has evidence that shows people who got its cove in nineteen vaccination could benefit from a booster shot. The company gave boosters to people six months after they got the one shot does within a week. The second johnson and johnson does significantly increased antibody levels separately. The biden administration has announced plans for booster shots for people who got the to dose in nineteen vaccines from pfizer and moderna in india. New corona virus infections have plateaued following a deadly outbreak. This past spring sushmita paddock reports. The country confirmed nearly forty thousand new cases today less than a tenth of what it was seeing at its peak in may the kuna virus may now be endemic in india that according to w rituals chief scientists so miss mommy not in in an interview with an indian news website. Swaminathan said there may be lucas spikes in cases not seeing the kind of exponential growth than ex that we saw a few months ago more than half of the new infections. India confirmed wednesday will from the southern state of gala and celebrations of hindu festival. There could have contributed to the case. Load the latest infections in. India also includes sixteen evacuees from afghanistan for npr news. I'm sushmita buttock in mumbai. Events or underway at the tokyo paralympics. The first gold medal has been won by australian cyclist page greco. She won the three thousand meter pursuit on the velodrome track. I'm korva coleman. Npr news in washington support..
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"401k live from npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman. The state department says all personnel from the. Us embassy in afghanistan are now at the airport in kabul. The agency says us. Military troops have secured. The airport's perimeter. Now that the afghan government has fallen to the taliban. Npr's greg myra says the kaaba airport is also jammed with afghans trying to escape these scenes of absolute desperation in chaos at the airport where it seems. Thousands of afghans have poured in and not only to the departure lounge but onto the tarmac really stunning video of of large. Us military transport planes sort of rolling down the runway With hundreds of people jogging alongside the plane in front of it on the sides behind it even guys clinging onto the to the wheel section. Npr's greg my reporting the number of new cova nineteen cases in the us has risen by about forty percent since the start of the month according to the centers for disease control and prevention about eighty four percent of counties in the us have high levels of community transmission of the virus npr's alison aubrey reports at the start of august the seven day average of new cases was about eighty five thousand per day. Now that's risen to about one hundred twenty thousand cases a day as the virus circulates widely. Every state in. The country has areas of high transmission. And only about four percent of us counties have a low level of transmission. Michael oster home is director of the center for infectious disease. Research and policy. At the university of minnesota i think the surge can sustain itself for at least another four to six weeks given the rise in cases from the sun belt to the west coast. Experts say getting more people vaccinated is key to slowing the spread in the fall. Alison aubrey npr news. Federal water officials today are expected to announce the first ever shortages of colorado river water. There are extreme. Drought conditions persisting in the southwest. Npr's kirk siegler reports cities and farms in the region. Have been trying to plan for this. Much of the western. us as an extreme drought conditions exacerbated. According to scientists by climate change the colorado river basin which supplies water to some forty million people and countless farms has been in a mega drought now for two decades. The federal bureau of reclamation is expected to announce a shortage on the colorado that will trigger cuts in deliveries from arizona to california and it will likely cause water prices to climb the nation's largest reservoir lake. Mead is at historic lows as its upstream. Companion lake powell. Their environmental wonders underwater. Since the rivers controversial damning in the nineteen fifties are coming into view. Again and glen canyon as the water evaporates kirk siegler. Npr news you're listening to npr news from washington. One of hong kong's most prominent civil rights. Organizations has disbanded. Its member said it was just too risky to continue the group's work organizing protests under beijing's national security law. Npr's emily fang reports the civil human rights front or c. h. r. f. joins multiple labor unions and political parties that have already stopped operating under the pressures of the security law the c. h. r. f. works like a coordinator it brought together hong kong's many activists organizations labor unions and local officials to organize peaceful rallies in favor of democratic reform in the region and two thousand fourteen the organization was instrumental in hong kong's umbrella protests which demanded a direct vote for the region's leader but since two thousand nineteen it has come under increasing pressure including two of its conveners being arrested. The national security law criminalizes any political activity that is construed as cessessionist so after nineteen years remaining conveners have ended that organization am fang. Npr news beijing earthquake-stricken. Haiti will soon have a new disaster. A tropical depression is headed for the western part of the island. That haiti.
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"Npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman the centers for disease control and prevention says. The rate of corona virus infections is rising across the country. npr's alison. Aubrey says. The cdc is tracking increases in nearly every jurisdiction. There are more than sixty four thousand cases reported on friday new cases and more than doubled over the last two weeks and again surges are really concentrated in areas where vaccination rates remained low just looking at data from florida some counties are reporting positively rates in the twenty five percent range which means one in four tests coming back positive. Npr's alison aubrey reporting. Meanwhile french lawmakers have passed a bill making vaccines mandatory for all health workers. They have also decided to require vaccine. Passports were recent negative corona virus test to enter most public spaces rebecca rosman reports. The bills housing makes france one of the first countries to turn such measures into law starting in august anyone over the age of eighteen. We'll have to scan a qr code showing proof of vaccination or a recent negative corona virus test to enter bars restaurants museums and other venues. The french government has been forced to walk a tight rope between curbing the spread of a fourth wave of the pandemic and making concessions to anti vaccination protesters massive protests over the weekend against the bill included demonstrators chanting macron. We don't want your pass. Meanwhile government data indicates new cova cases have increased by nearly four hundred percent in the last two weeks with an average number of eighteen thousand new cases per day for npr news. I'm rebecca rosman in paris. A key virtual meeting starts today among more than two hundred leading climate scientists. They'll finish a critical document. That will explain how the earth's climate has already changed the also lay out what humans can expect from the weather for the rest of the century. A new survey of business economists finds many. Us companies are enjoying higher profits right now but also higher costs. Npr's scott horsely reports that survey conducted by the national association for business economics. Finds these experts are generally upbeat about prospects for the months to come two out of three business. Economists surveyed say sales that their firms increase during the spring the vast majority expect higher than usual economic growth well into next year at the same time forty percent report. Their businesses are struggling with supply shortages and a similar numbers. Say they don't have enough workers more than half the respondents say their companies are raising workers. Pay and more than forty percent say they plan to raise prices. Within the next three months work from home policies adopted during the pandemic could have a lasting impact more than sixty percent of survey respondents say their companies planned to maintain some kind of hybrid or flexible work from home policy. Even after the pandemic is over scott horsely. Npr news washington on wall street. Stocks are mixed. The dow jones industrials are down thirty. Eight points at thirty five thousand twenty. Three the nasdaq is up. More than twenty three points this is. Npr following massive nationwide protests in tunisia. President siad has suspended parliament and fired the prime minister not home see reports from beirut that some celebrated the move but others accused the tunisian president post staging a coup in video circulated on social media. Young protesters celebrated the president's decision shouting slogans against the parliament and calling for early elections in comments carried by tunisian state news. President had aligned himself with the tunisian people who have been protesting since january over chronic political mismanagement and difficult economic conditions. But early monday. Tunisian troops had surrounded the parliament building the associated press reported to prevent its speaker in the new she from entering in defiance of the president's orders and according to state news a new she who was also head of the opposition and nadda movement decried. The president's move as a coup an assault on democracy for npr news. I'm not a helmsey in baidu's the dixie fire now. California's largest wildfire has swallowed up a smaller wildfire. The dixie fire has now burned more than three hundred square miles. It has destroyed at least a dozen homes and other buildings. In south central oregon the bootleg fire has scorched nearly six hundred fifty square miles. That is more than half contained. The utah highway patrol says seven people were killed in a series of crashes sunday on interstate. Fifteen about twenty cars piled up after they were struck by a dust storm. That blew up. Suddenly several people were taken to the hospital in critical condition. The site of the accident is about one hundred sixty miles south of salt lake city. This is npr..
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"I'm korva coleman. The centers for disease control and prevention says cove in nineteen cases are on the rise in nearly ninety percent of jurisdictions. The cdc says that's due to the spread of the delta variant of the corona virus. It's responsible for more than eighty three percent of recent. Us cases the cdc says that nearly forty nine percent of people in the us have been fully vaccinated first lady. Joe biden is returning from representing the us at the tokyo olympic games. On her trip home she stopped in hawaii. Npr's gile snyder reports biden went to visit a pop-up cove nineteen vaccination clinic first lady. Jill biden tour vaccine clinic at a high school in waipa. Who saying the corona virus has more contagious ever. So i'm here to ask everyone listening right now to choose to get vaccinated biden toured the clinic with hawaii governor david e gay as infection rates driven by the delta variant rise in hawaiian elsewhere around the country especially in areas with low vaccination rates including florida taxes missouri. Over the weekend the cdc said there has been an uptick in the number of doses administered some seven hundred eighty thousand within a twenty four hour period. However that still below the peak reported in early. April trial snyder. Npr news british officials are dealing with the massive number of notifications. That people are getting in the uk that tell them they have been near someone who tested positive for the corona virus. Vicki burke reports from london. It's being called the quote ping democ. What does prime minister. Boris johnson have in common with tens of thousands of british garbage collectors. Supermarket workers and truck drivers all have been paying by the covert notification app informing them. They've been in contact with someone who's tested positive and should now self isolate for ten days. Though result an estimated seventeen percent of police officers are now off duty and fears of food shortages are growing with critics charging the ping democ may prove more disruptive than the pandemic itself. British officials will meet monday to discuss expanding the number of job descriptions eligible to replace self isolation with daily workplace testing for npr news. I'm vicki barker in london in guatemala. The country's recently dismissed chief. Anticorruption prosecutor fled the country. This weekend as marie martin reports one son of all says he feared for his life after guatemala's attorney general fired him when the weather's been priced internationally for his attack corruption efforts in the face of legal challenges death threats after he was dismissed friday. By the attorney general he said he was about to announce new corruption investigations involving high government officials. He fled the country accompanied by what a human rights ombudsman and the swedish ambassador. Maria martin reporting this is npr. On sunday people in chicago marked. What would have been the eightieth birthday of emmett till at his boyhood home. The black teenager was lynched in mississippi in nineteen fifty five for member station. Wbz linda lutton reports. Till's chicago home was recently designated a city landmark the lynching of fourteen year old emmett till in mississippi in nineteen fifty five is considered a catalyst to the civil rights movement. Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral and let the world see the horrors of racial hate through his disfigured face but for decades nothing marked till's boyhood home on chicago's southside. Knew me davis of the nonprofit blacks in green worked to save the home so a dilapidated building with five pages of code. Violations has been recently recognized by the city of chicago. As an historic landmark city officials unveiled a plaque. The goal is to transform the 'til home into a museum and african american heritage site where visitors can learn about till and the great migration for npr news in chicago. I'm linda lutton. Flooding in some areas of central china remains dangerous. At least fifty eight people have been killed this month separately. A typhoon is now made landfall. in southern china. the utah highway patrol says seven. People were killed yesterday afternoon in a series of crashes triggered by a sandstorm they were on interstate fifteen. The officials say several people were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Up to twenty vehicles. Were involved in the crashes in the late afternoon a sandra dust storm hit the road and immediately cut visibility. This is npr..
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"Two percent cash rewards on purchases terms apply learn more at wellsfargo dot com slash active cash live from. Npr news in washington. I'm korva coleman. The tokyo olympic games are formally underway. The opening ceremony kicked off in the enormous olympic stadium. Japanese emperor naruhito was in attendance but he was joined by fewer than a thousand spectators. Most are banned. Because of corona virus protocols the chair of the us olympic and paralympic committee susannah lions says team usa will follow all guidelines to ensure safety. We recognize how very very difficult this has been. And we come here. Humbly and with respect for japanese hosts and again we will follow every protocol. We will follow every rule to ensure that this is a safe and secure games for everybody. The games are not supported by many japanese citizens who say hosting teams from around the world could worsen the pandemic. Hundreds of japanese protested in tokyo today. During the opening ceremony. Funeral services are underway for haiti's slain president jovan. Myc's npr's carrie. Kahn reports moyes was shot to death. Little more than two weeks ago and it's still not clear who was responsible. Noises funeral is taking place in the north of the country in the city of cap-hatien not far from the banana plantations where the unlikely politician built his career. As a fruit exxporter he was seen as an outsider who could possibly unite haiti's opposing political forces. Mois was killed on july seventh when gunmen burst into his resident shooting him twelve times and seriously injuring his wife. Supporters are eulogizing him as a defender of democracy in the poor but in recent years he faced accusations of corruption and authoritarianism. More than two dozen people have been arrested in the case including eighteen former colombian soldiers a former rebel leader and an ex-senator being sought by authorities. Carrie kahn npr news. Mexico city in canada authorities are evacuating people in parts of three provinces because of wildfires then carpenter reports the worst effect and is the western province of british columbia. Now facing a new threat. There are now about forty three hundred properties. Nbc under evacuation orders with about eighteen thousand more on alert officials say windsor strengthening and shifting. And we'll play a role in how the fires are growing. They warn the fire. Spread will likely increase in 'cause riskier firefighting operations. Thousands of people have fled their homes with more on the move as new evacuation. Orders are issued. Meanwhile the military is helping to combat wildfires in manitoba where four native communities have been evacuated about two thousand people have also had to flee from fires in northeastern ontario where the provincial government has declared a state of emergency for npr news. I'm dan carpenter in toronto on wall. Street the dow jones industrials are up two hundred twenty. Three points at thirty five thousand forty. Six the nasdaq is up about seventy points at fourteen thousand seven hundred fifty four. The s&p five hundred is up thirty points. This is npr. Nearly eighty large wildfires are burning almost all in the west the biggest is the bootleg. Fire in oregon. That is burned well over six hundred square miles. It's about forty percent contained in california. The tamarack fire has burn nearly eighty square miles. The dixie fires burning not far from the california town of paradise destroyed by a massive wildfire in two thousand eighteen. That killed eighty five people former south african president jacob zuma remains jailed. He's facing demands to pay the government more than a million dollars in legal fees related to his corruption case ish mahfoud equal reports from harare. The government had met zuma's trial defense costs for the ongoing graft case until the high court ruled to cut the funding. At compilation of the cost is now ready. The corruption case dates back to the nine hundred ninety s when zuma was deputy president the case resumes in the high court on august ten. Meanwhile the death toll. During last week's unrest triggered by the former presidents incarceration for a separate contempt of court charge now stands at three hundred thirty seven and the police and the army are going from door to door recovering goods looted during the unrest in affected areas for npr news. I am ish. Mundi are in harry. In central china workers. Driving construction vehicles are still rescuing people stranded by sudden torrential flooding. This week the weather left at least fifty. One people dead in central china on korva coleman. Npr news in washington..
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"The city president. Vina's expected to invite members of congress to the white house for more infrastructure talks as npr's camera keith. Reports large differences remain. a bipartisan. group of senators has been working on a compromise infrastructure proposal. But it's not clear how much support they've found among their senate colleagues separately white house. Press secretary jen psaki appearing on cbs. This morning said the president and his team need more details about what's in the proposal and how will be financed an idea. That's been floating around there. That certainly the president would not support is a gas tax which would raise taxes on people making less than four hundred thousand dollars a year. We're just not going to stand for that and we're not going to accept that the white house and progressive democrats in congress prefer paying for roads bridges broadband and more by increasing taxes on the wealthy which republicans have said is a no go tama keith. Npr news stocks open mixed this morning after steep losses last week. Npr's scott horsely reports. The jones industrial average is up about three hundred sixty points in early trading. Investors are gonna to make up some of the ground. They lost last week when the s. and p. five hundred index whether its biggest drop since february last week the federal reserve. It's forecast for inflation this year and hinted that interest rates could start to climb sooner than expected from today's near zero level overseas markets. Were mixed overnight. The shanghai composite index rose but stocks declined in hong kong and seoul. Tokyo's nikkei average tumbled more than three percent with tokyo olympics. Set to begin in just over a month. Japan is enlisting corporate help and trying to boost that country's lackluster vaccination rates. Thousands of japanese employers began giving shots to employees and their families. Today it's got worse. The npr news washington. Iran's new president elect ebrahim racy. Says he won't meet president biden and wants the us to lift all its sanctions against his country. Racy was elected last friday but most iranian stayed home as numerous candidates were forced off the ballot wall street journal. Reporter soon at rasmussen says rice is a hardliner from iran's judicial system. He's been part of the judiciary and the legal system since the beginning of this slavic revolution so since early eighties when he was only twenty years old and that means he doesn't have any political experience actually but he does have very close ties to supreme leader. Eddie hominy who has the final say in all matters of state national security things like that he spoke to. Npr's morning edition on wall street. The dow is now up three hundred seventy six points. This is npr. Japan's olympic committee organizers. Say they will let as many as ten thousand spectators attend some events at the summer games next month. This comes as tokyo was under a partial state of emergency because of the spread of the pandemic. Japan's top medical adviser also strongly recommended against allowing spectators at olympic events citing the coronavirus pandemic to britain's leading healthcare figures are demanding that the uk government move quickly to provide details about a potential round of covid nineteen booster shots villa marks reports from london. It could happen as early as september in the london times. Op-ed the head of britain's royal college of general practitioners martin marshal and chief executive hospital umbrella group. Nhs providers chris hopson insists the vaccination of all british adults next month must not be a finishing line but also a staging post the to praise a vaccine program. That's being. I'm vicious and scale and a triumph detail planning but as the country prepares for its annual flu vaccine campaign this full. They stressed the need for rapid decisions about the long jetty of foreign covid nineteen protection the challenges posed by future variants and the role of new vaccines and a boost to campaign could add significant added complexity to the workload of britain's stretched frontline healthcare workers. Npr news on the marks in london view as envoy to north korea says the biden administration is seeking to resume talks with that country. But in the meantime ambassador soon. Kim says the us will continue to implement sanctions on pyongyang. North korean leader. Kim jong un has said his country should be ready for both dialogue and confrontation with the us. I'm korva coleman npr news..
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Buccaneers and Chiefs advance to Super Bowl
"This year's super bowl teams are set the nfl's defending champs the kansas city chiefs will face the tampa bay buccaneers in two weeks for the championship. Kansas city defeated the buffalo bills on sunday while obey upset. The green bay packers to advance to the super bowl. I'm korva coleman. Npr news
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FDA releases details on Pfizer vaccine's effectiveness
"Npr news. I'm korva coleman. The food and drug administration has released its analysis of the covid nineteen vaccine produced by pfizer and its partner biontech. Npr's joe palca reports. This information was reviewed by a group of independent experts. That advise the fda. You know it's interesting because so far what we've seen from the company has been press releases one or two pages Saying how effective it is and ninety five percent. Effective is is what they've been saying and this these documents all back that up completely. Npr's joe palca reporting. The advisory committee will recommend whether the fda should approve the use of the covid vaccine on an emergency basis pfizer to start distributing the vaccine in the us this month.
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China retaliates for US bill backing Hong Kong protesters
"Is suspending U. S. navy visits to Hong Kong this is in retaliation for president trump signing legislation supporting human rights in Hong Kong China says this is unreasonable Beijing will further impose sanctions on some American non governmental organizations I'm korva Coleman NPR news in
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Michael Flynn asks judge to let him avoid prison
"Unclear. The salient was on a police watchlist flagged as Patel. Essentially radicalized Strasbourg came to the European Union's parliament remained on down overnight and residents have been warned to stay vigilant. France's interior ministry says police had attempted and failed to arrest. The gunman earlier on Tuesday for an attempted murder. And that this may have triggered the attack for NPR news. I miss me Nicholson in Berlin. You're listening to NPR news. There's been a moderate earthquake in Tennessee this morning. The US Geological Survey says the tremors magnitude was four point four, and it was centered in eastern, Tennessee. It could be felt in Atlanta. The first quake was followed. A few minutes later by three point three magnitude aftershock, the final version of Congress's farm. Bill is out and it legalizes industrial hemp harvest public media's Esther honing explains that will bring stability to farmers and states that are already growing the crop thirty nine states already allow for the cultivation of hemp, and there's currently more than twenty five thousand acres devoted to the crop. In the US federal legalization is a boon for producers of CBD oil, which is derived from hemp and used from additional purposes, Kristen Kuna gross hemp in Colorado and says federal legalization gives her and her husband the confidence to invest in their farm. We just feel a little bit safer that we are going into a legitimate business. And there is going gonna be room to grow and to do what we've always been wanting to do the farm Bill would allow each state to oversee local hemp cultivation for NPR news. I'm Esther Hoenig in Greeley, Colorado. A Canadian court has granted bail to Chinese business executive mung Joe of ten million dollars. She and her company while we technologies are suspected of selling equipment to Iran in violation of US sanctions American. Authorities would like to have her extradited to the US separately an international think tank reports one of its officials a former Canadian diplomat has been detained in China. I'm korva Coleman. NPR news. Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include L, D, entertainment and roadside attractions with Banus back starring Julia Roberts as a mother whose son unexpectedly returns home Christmas. Also with Lucas hedges. Now in select theaters expands December fourteenth. Steve Inskeep is going to speak with Trump supporter. Chris Buskirk Buskirk runs. The conservative publication American greatness. And the conversation will be about President Trump possibly being linked to a film of campaign finance violations that story just ahead on morning edition also had an Alabama policeman. As you may know recently killed a young black man is he ran away from shooting in a mall. The was legally armed but police figuring out who the quote, unquote, good guy is in chaotic situations can be difficult. A closer look is coming up on morning edition.
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Sri Lanka parliament 'votes against newly appointed PM Rajapaksa'
"Members of parliament were able to gather for the first time since the country's president suspended the legislature and his cabinet last month, the president ousted the old prime minister and installed a new one. But Sri Lanka's supreme court ordered parliament members to return and continue their work when they met they pass the no-confidence vote in the new prime minister, I'm korva Coleman. NPR news from Washington. Support for NPR comes from
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Former Nazi SS camp guard, 94, faces trial in Germany
"Fifty one year old Virendra Govan was discovered unresponsive on Sunday and pronounced dead a short while later. Both deaths are being investigated as suicides. Both death row inmates were also multiple murderers officials say they have no evidence that the incidents are related. There are currently seven hundred forty inmates on California's death row since nineteen seventy eight twenty five have committed suicide, Richard Gonzales, NPR news. San Francisco, the US Olympic Committee is seeking to revoke the status of USA gymnastics as the national governing body for the sport. It was a gymnastics. It's still facing challenges over the scandal. A former team doctor Larry Nassar, he's in prison for sexually assaulting girls. They organization has been accused of badly handling accusations of sexual assault by USA gymnastics members, I'm korva Coleman. NPR news from Washington. Support for NPR comes from NPR stations. Other contributors include Twentieth Century, Fox with widows four women decide to pull off a heist to pay back the debt their husbands left behind in the new thriller from the writer of gone girl, and the director of twelve years a slave widows in theaters November sixteenth, this is morning edition on KCRW ahead on morning edition. The government spends lots of money to stop Islamic extremism while virtually ignoring threats posed by far right racist hate groups, there really haven't been much resources devoted to developing efforts to counter that form of violent extremism. Moron. This underfunded and neglected area. Left coming up on morning edition here
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Cannabis is now legal in Canada
"Buildings by parents who asked how they could trust thirties to protect their children. The government is fine chunk. Twin Chunchang biotechnology one point three billion dollars for creating at least one hundred thousand defective. Rabies vaccines. Authorities. Insist they were only ineffective not dangerous, according to state media chunk twins violations included, blending, different batches, vaccine fluid falsifying dates of production and using expired fluid to produce some of the batches, rob Schmitz NPR news Shanghai. Israeli warplanes have hit targets in Gaza after militants. They're fired a rocket that struck Israel officials in Gaza say at least one Palestinian has been killed. The Israeli military says the Palestinian rocket hit a house. But there were no injuries reported. No group has claimed responsibility for firing the rocket, I'm korva Coleman. NPR news in Washington. Support for NPR comes from the financial services firm of Raymond James, offering personalized wealth management advice and banking and capital markets expertise along with a legacy of putting clients financial wellbeing. I learn more at Raymond James dot com. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo was in Saudi Arabia yesterday to follow up on the suspected murder of a Saudi journalist Pompeo is in Turkey today. More on that story is coming up in the next segment of morning edition in Florida. Meantime, governor Rick Scott is helping unsee democratic
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Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasi Ford and NPR discussed on Morning Edition
"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm korva Coleman. The Senate Judiciary committee will hear testimony today from supreme court nominee Brett Cavanaugh and Christine Blasi Ford. The woman who is accusing him of sexually assaulting her more than thirty years ago. NPR's Kelsey Snell
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Unlikely weapon: petanque balls help disarm Paris attacker
"In Dallas a man has been arrested in Paris for a knife attack. Seven people had been wounded before the attacker was stopped by a bystander the BBC's Lucy. William. Samson reports from Paris police source told French media that the attack began by stabbing three people outside a cinema. Overlooking the canal one witness who was playing the traditional French game of petanque on the key tried to stop him by throwing one of the heavy bulls the attacker fled but later targeted to British tourists in the same area. An inquiry into attempted murder has been opened a source close to the inquiry is quoted as saying nothing at this stage suggests
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Trump vows to fight censorship of conservatives by social media firms
"I'm korva Coleman President Trump is again criticizing major social. Media and internet, companies he claims without evidence that. They're, biased against conservatives NPR's Sarah mccamman reports that Trump repeated those claims Thursday and campaign rally in Evansville Indiana on Twitter President Trump. Has accused Google of, being biased against. Him that claim was deemed inaccurate by. A recent Associated Press fact check he's made similar comments at the White House this week at a rally with supporters Trump again complained about several companies, including Facebook and Twitter we as a country cannot tolerate political censorship blacklisting at. Rigged search results and you know it can go the other, way also Trump's comments come amid debate, about, how, companies should. Deal with individuals in groups that use online platforms to spread
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Senator John McCain, NPR and Santa Clara County discussed on The Cruz Show
"The news next Live from NPR news in Washington I'm korva Coleman Arizona is remembering Senator John McCain memorial services are being held for him today in Phoenix after his death last. Weekend from brain cancer from member station, k. j. z. z.. We'll stone reports Senator John McCain will lie in state at the capitol after a private ceremony members of the public will offer. Their respects to the late? Senator at the capitol McCain family spokesman, Rick Davis. Who. Also, ran the senator's bid for the White House says the date is fitting the significance
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How Ketamine Treats Depression: It Acts Like an Opioid, Study Suggests
"Him this hour on David green and I'm Rachel Martin President Trump hosted a dinner for evangelical, leaders and he warned of. Violence if Republicans lose in the, midterms we'll talk with one of Trump's earliest Christian supporters Reverend Robert, Jefferson a new book explores the self serving nature of elite level philanthropy and the biological benefits of being. Lazy it is, Wednesday August twenty nine a moment of glee for Liam. Machel the actor and singer turns thirty two. Today the news is coming up next Live from NPR. News in Washington I'm korva. Coleman Tallahassee mayor Andrew gillum has won the democratic nomination for Florida governor he'll face Republican Ron to Santa's in the fall from member station w. f. s. u. Ryan daily reports if Gillam wins he, would become Florida's first African. American
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Investigators call for genocide prosecutions over slaughter of Rohingyas
"Failed to reunite more than five hundred migrant children taken from their parents by immigration officials. Then remember that one hundred million dollars donation to Newark public schools. For Mark Zuckerberg, a new investigation looks into where that money went and a high school teacher surprise hospital Bill for more than one hundred thousand dollars just kind of got real all of a sudden now eight year insurance isn't going to pay this.
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"A warning to some four million users. If they use the quiz app called my personality, their personal data may have been misused NPR's, jasmine guard reports the my personality app asked users personality questions and offered feedback. Now, Facebook says the app was sharing information with researchers and companies it has been banned. It's reminiscent of the Cambridge analytic scandal earlier this year, which revealed that a political data firm access the information of up to eighty seven million Facebook users that scandal placed Facebook under intense scrutiny over how and if it can protect the information and privacy of its two billion plus. Users. The social media company says it has since investigated thousands of apps and deleted over four hundred jasmine
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US, China raise tariffs in new round of trade dispute
"To go into, effect today Trump has imposed more tariffs than any other modern president. There are, many questions. About, whether or not the terrorists are really. Being news strategically and across the pond the British government is releasing, documents today. Telling businesses how to prepare for the UK leaving the European. Union it's Thursday August twenty third this is morning edition on WNYC Live from NPR news in Washington I'm korva Coleman President Trump is making more comments about hush money that was paid to two. Women who, alleged they had affairs with, Trump the president denies. The affairs his former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty this week to several federal felonies,
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Uganda police battle protesters seeking release of pop star
"Have opened fire on demonstrators NPR's. ADA parole to reports, protesters were demonstrating against the arrest and alleged torture of an opposition leader. News footage shows protesters building roadblocks by burning tyres, and in the middle of downtown compile. It shows police opening fire on a large group of protesters witnesses. Say that downtown Kampala has come to a standstill. Protesters are demanding the release of Bobby wine, the country's most popular singer, and also one of its top opposition figures. The country's military through wine in a military prison. After the accused, his supporters of throwing rocks at the president's convoy, his family says wine has been badly beaten and has internal injuries president. You wearing move seventy who has ruled Uganda for more than three decades says, he will not tolerate any threats. He says he has fought back before and he will do so again, eight
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"Boorda Rico is still recovering from hurricane, Maria, but the Federal Emergency Management agency says, the situation is no longer in emergency Puerto Rico's government disagrees. I'm well king and I'm David Greene, six years ago. The Democratic Party told its candidates in rural areas to show off their guns and political ads. We'll hear why that would be a bad idea today and Aretha Franklin's adopted hometown mourns for loss people in Detroit. Remember how she brought respect to women there to the city itself. It's Friday, August seventeenth singer, Belinda Carlisle. From the go. Go's turns sixty. The news is next. Live from NPR. News in Washington I'm korva Coleman about a dozen former intelligence officials are speaking out after the White, House revoked the. Security clearance a former CIA director John Brennan, he's repeatedly clashed with the president calling Trump's failure to denounce Russian interference in US
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