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charges against Kilmar, a brago Garcia today, his wrongful deportation to El Salvador last year, became an embarrassment for the Trump administration when it was ordered to return him to the U.S., a brago Garcia claimed the timing of the criminal charges and inflammatory statements about him by top Trump officials demonstrated the prosecution was in vindictive. He's still fighting efforts to deport him from the country.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there's still more work to do to read to deal with Iran. President Trump has been threatening more military action as NPR's Michelle Kaliman reports. After meeting NATO counterparts in Sweden, Secretary Rubio was asked about the prospects of a deal with Iran, he says the goal is an agreement that covers Iran's nuclear program
and reopens the state of Hormuz.
“But we also have to have a plan B, and plan B is what if Iran refuses to open the streets?”
What if Iran decides we refuse to open the streets? We're going to own the streets and we're going to charge the tolls for it. At that point, something has to be done about it. And he says this affects Europe more than the U.S., Rubio repeated his frustration that a few NATO allies did not let the U.S. use bases to launch the war against Iran.
The state of Hormuz was operating normally before the war. Michelle Kaliman and B.R. News, the State Department. Two Democratic senators are demanding answers from the Treasury Department about the decision to settle the case of the leak of President Trump's tax returns, and PR's Kerry Johnson reports.
Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wein of Oregon are writing officials of the Treasury Department to get more detail about what they call an outrageously corrupt
deal that creates a nearly $2 billion tax payer fund that could compensate January 6 rioters
and other Trump allies.
“The senators want the inspector general for tax administration to probe whether any laws have”
been broken that bar political interference in the audit work of the IRS. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's defending the settlement, asserting Trump and his family will not receive any direct financial benefit. But the deal also seems to shield Trump from any legal problems over his past tax returns. Kerry Johnson and PR News, Washington.
Authorities in Northeastern Congo have banned funeral wigs and gatherings of more than 50 people to curb the Ebola outbreak. For now 750 suspected cases and 177 suspected deaths, though more are expected as surveillance expands. Dr. Satish Pillai is the CDC's incident manager for Ebola response.
Efforts to contain the virus face challenges, including misinformation and clashes with local
customs, the United Nations has released $60 million to aid the response.
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“Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's determined to build a better country after Alberta's”
premiere announced a public vote on whether to move toward independence. Many Albertans have long complained that Ottawa hasn't done enough to get Alberta's vast oil reserves to market. Many emphasized Alberta's contributions to Canada and noted efforts to build a new oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast.
Germany's federal prosecutor has charged two men with plotting to kill leaders of the country's Jewish and Israeli communities on behalf of Iran's revolutionary guard corps and PR's Rob Schmitz reports. The primary suspect identified only as Ali S. is a Danish citizen. He was charged with espionage, attempted conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated
Arson, German investigators say he worked for a Ryan's revolutionary guard and has
closed ties to the coups for us in elite guards, unit specializing in foreign operations. Prosecutors say another man, Afghan citizen Tawab M, played a supporting role in was charged with attempted conspiracy to commit murder. Prosecutors say the two planned to kill several Jews in Berlin, including Folker Beck, the head of the German Israeli society.
The indictment comes as European authorities grow increasingly concerned about an uptick of Iranian intelligence activity in the wake of the U.S. Israeli war in Iran. Rob Schmitz and Pyrenees, Berlin. Advocate celebrated the 230th anniversary of Ona Judges escape from enslavement by George Washington yesterday.
Judges escaped from Washington's Philadelphia residence on May 21, 1796 and lived the rest of her life in New Hampshire, a mural depicting Judges being unveiled tomorrow in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. We stand for your right to be curious, because the forces shaping our world can be hard
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