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Trump prefers a negotiating settlement with Cuba, but that the likelihood of that is not
very high right now.
“The administration has been ramping up the pressure on the Communist government there”
to change its system as NPR's Michelle Kalman reports. A day after the Department of Justice announced an indictment against former Cuban President Roe Castro, Secretary Rubio kept up the pressure describing Cuba as a national security threat for its connections to Russia and China. And the other thing that poses the threats of the national security in the United States
is to have a failed state 90 miles from our shores run by friends of our adversaries. He would not say if the U.S. would try to arrest the 94-year-old Castro as the Trump administration did with Venezuela and later Nicolas Maduro earlier this year, Rubio was speaking on the tarmac in Florida before heading to Sweden for a NATO meeting. Michelle Kalman and PR News the State Department.
The Minnesota woman convicted of leading what prosecutors say was the nation's largest COVID fraud scheme today received a 42-year federal prison sentence Matt Sepick of Minnesota Public Radio reports. Amy Bach ran a nonprofit called feeding our future, she and her dozens of co-dependence
“exploited pandemic rule changes in Lacks oversight to steal nearly $250 million from federal”
child nutrition programs. While Democratic Governor Tim Wals was not implicated, the scheme happened on his watch and was a major factor in his decision earlier this year, not to seek reelection. Matt Sepick from Minnesota Public Radio reporting. Madda has settled lawsuit brought by a rural eastern Kentucky district breath that county
schools just weeks before the case was set to go to trial and PR's Shannon Bond reports. It's one of more than 1,000 districts around the country that are suing social media companies over mental health harms to students. The school districts say they've borne the costs of supporting students harmed by excessive use of social media.
The Kentucky case had been selected as the first school district lawsuit to go to trial
in Oakland in June. The district settled with the other defendants, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok last week. The terms of the settlements were not disclosed.
“A spokesperson for Madda said in a statement, quote, "We've resolved this case amicably”
and remain focused on our longstanding work to build protections," and quote, citing "teen accounts and parental controls." It has already lost cases in California and New Mexico state courts over alleged harms of its platforms to children. Shannon Bond and Pernies.
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts approved the design for a triumphal arch president Trump wants to build at the entrance to the nation's capital. He says Washington D.C. needs an arch because it's the only major western capital without one. His version would rise on a traffic circle between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National
Cemetery at 250 feet high critics say the arch is too tall for the region. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Colorado Democrats have voted to censure Democratic Governor Jared Polis for commuting the prison sentence of an election conspiracy theorist. Former county clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing her
county's voting data. The governor spoke sparse and says his decision was based on the facts of the case. Climate change is making rainfall heavier in Britain and Pernies' learn-frair reports on an unlikely creature that's been brought back from extinction to help. West London's Greenford tube station used to flood until a new family moved in nearby.
I crept up to their rather muddy doorstep. Their home is made of sticks because these new neighbors are beavers. John McCormick is a local veterinarian who started this project. The city was planning to build a levy here. Big diggers and earthworks and expensive engineering works, it would have cost hundreds of
thousands. McCormick convinced authorities to try something different. The beavers can do it probably fraction of the cost, certainly more sustainably. Not only has the nearby tube station stopped flooding, fresh water shrimp have appeared in the creek, plus eight new species of birds, two types of bats, and rare brown hair-streak
butterflies, Lauren Freyer and PR News London.
Raise car driver Katherine Leg is trying to become the first woman to attempt the
one day, two race 1100 mile marathon known as the double this Sunday. She's trying to compete in the Indy 500 Indianapolis and then take a helicopter and private jet to Charlotte, North Carolina to compete in the Coca-Cola 600. This is NPR News from Washington. We flush a lot of things down the toilet, you know, the obvious ones.
The drugs like cocaine are also going down the drain and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it. It's definitely present in most of the ecosystem on Earth now, unfortunately, through only sort of really starting the scratch the surface and the other standing, the potential consequences of that.
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