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to Drink" wherever you're listening. Live from NPR News and Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump traveled to South Texas to town as economic agenda and PR's a Franco or
Donia's reports the visit comes days ahead of a critical Republican primary election.
President Trump visited Corpus Christi, where he touted his drill-baby drill agenda. "So, we're witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen in this port is right at the center of the action." But a speech was somewhat overshadowed by the heated Republican primary elections in the state.
Senator John Cornan is trying to win his fifth term in the Senate, but is being challenged by State Attorney General Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt in a rough primary fight. Trump gave shoutouts to all three Republicans during his speech, but he stopped short of endorsing one in the race.
Franco, or Donia's NPR News.
“The Pentagon has made a deal with scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts,”
that Defense Secretary Pete Hickseth says would maintain their century-old partnership
but refocus the organization a way what he calls "woke policies." Hickseth has criticized scouting America's acceptance of transgender youth, but scouting America says the agreement doesn't change existing policies regarding transgender youth, and that they're welcome. The changes include adding or losing some badges and waving registration fees for the
children of military personnel. The Trump administration is ordering all non-emergency personnel and their family to leave Israel, citing safety risks. The directive comes as President Trump continues to move U.S. fighter jets and warships into the Middle East in an effort to pressure Iran into nuclear talks, and P.R.'s A.A.A.
Betrayal reports. In addition to ordering non-emergency U.S. staff and their families to leave Israel, the U.S. Embassy advised that other Americans may also wish to consider leaving while commercial flights are available.
“A similar order was issued for non-emergency U.S. staff to depart Lebanon earlier this”
week. Despite these precautionary orders, and a continued U.S. military buildup in the region, Iran and the Trump administration continued to hold indirect talks. The latest talks were in Geneva on Thursday and included the head of the International Tomic Energy Agency that monitors nuclear enrichment.
A.A.A. Betrayal and Pernus, Dubai President Trump raised the possibility of what he calls a friendly takeover of Cuba without explaining what that means. The island nation is experiencing an energy crisis after the U.S. cut off oil from its main supplier Venezuela, Trump says Secretary of State Marco Rubio is speaking with Cuban leaders at a very high level, but the White House offered no further details.
Cuba says it's communicating with U.S. officials after a deadly shooting involving a Florida registered speedboat in waters off the island. Rubio has said that investigators are looking into it. U.S. stocks sank today as Wall Street kept punishing companies that could become losers in the A.I. revolution, the S&P 500 fell nearly half a percent, the Dow dropped more
than 1 percent, the NASDAQ fell nearly 1 percent.
This is NPR news. Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded attacks in an escalation of tensions between the countries. Pakistan's defense ministry says the two countries are now in open war. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan's Taliban government of harboring militant groups and allying with its rival India.
Donald Sedaka, one of the early stars of 1950s and 60s rock and roll, has died at the age of 86, Steve Futterman, looks back at his career. Neal Sedaka's first number one hit was breaking up his heart to do. There would be other hits, telling the girl, and O'Karo, written for his one-time girl friend Carol King.
When the British invasion hit, Sedaka's career suffered, but in the 70s he made a comeback. Thanks in large part to Elton John, who helped promote it and sang backup on his biggest comeback hit, bad blood. Sedaka was also a prolific songwriter for others.
He wrote the classic "Love Will Keep Us Together" for Captain Intonio. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman, in Los Angeles. Shoppers in Upstate New York turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month, a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf. Conservation officials say customers that the marketplace spotted puffy, brown and white
colored owl perched with its eyes, shut next to a cookie jar made from the shape of a chicken. The officers released the bird into a wooded area where it flew into a nearby tree. This is NPR. This message comes from wise, the app for international people using money around the globe.
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