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A federal judge has cleared Kilmar Abrago Garcia of all charges.
“His lawyers argued the Trump administration retaliated against him after his wrongful”
deportation to El Salvador, gained national attention. From member station WPLN, Maryanna Bakkelau reports. Prosecutors charged Abrago Garcia with human smuggling, based on a two-and-a-half-year-old traffic stop in Tennessee. In his ruling Judge Waverley Crenshaw found issue with the delay in prosecution.
Abrago Garcia's federal investigation began only after the Supreme Court ordered he be returned to the U.S. He also pointed to a senior prosecutor who resigned from the DOJ after his recommendation
not to charge Abrago Garcia went unheeded.
For NPR News, I'm Maryanna Bakkelau in Nashville. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there's still more work to be done to reach a deal with Iran. President Trump has been threatening more military action and PR's Michelle Kellerman 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 straight-of-hormous. 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 if you NATO allies did not let the U.S. use bases to launch the war against Iran, the state of our moves was operating normally before
the war. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the state department officials in North Eastern Congo are better banning gatherings of more than 50 people, including Wakes. This try to slow the moving of the Ebola virus. The World Health Organization says the virus poses a very high risk for that nation
with more than 177 deaths and at least 80 to 600 suspected cases. CDC officials say they're sending several Ebola experts from Atlanta to Central Africa to help contain the virus.
“We continue to support DRC and Uganda Country offices and Ministry of Health colleagues with”
near-term focus on expanding infection prevention and control efforts, strengthening contact tracing and surveillance operations, accelerating laboratory confirmation, addressing logistical gap and enhancing risk communication in community engagement.
The United Nations has released more than 600 million dollars to assist in the response
to the outbreak, but has been facing challenges in terms of fighting the disease. This is NPR News. In Lake George, New York, the remains of 44 continental army soldiers were discovered several years ago at a construction site. From member station WAMC, Aaron Sheldon Levane reports the last remains have been laid to rest on Friday.
Bioarchologists and historians with New York State Museum believe the soldiers were likely buried in unmarked cemeteries in 1776 when a continental army hospital was situated on Lake George's southern end. Many likely died of smallpox and typhus after a failed invasion of Canada in late 1775. Linda Homein is one of a handful of volunteers who helped sift through and piece together the discovered bones. It's been wonderful. I mean, it's overwhelming.
He might notice several shed tears. We waited a long time to complete this project. And it's, I don't know what I'm going to do in my free time now. The four pine boxes draped in the continental Union flag were the last to enter the memorial site overlooking the atarondack lake. MPR News, Aaron Sheldon Levane, Lake George. One day before NASCAR driver Kyle Bush died, he required medical attention while preparing for this weekend's
Coca-Cola 600 race Wednesday, a 911 caller asked for an ambulance to come to the training facility in Concord North Carolina to provide assistance. He was in a racing simulator when he became unresponsive and was transported to a hospital Bush died on Thursday. He was 41. News of his death has sent shock waves through the racing community on what is one of the biggest racing weekends of the year. This is NPR News. Support. On Concord this, NPR's afternoon news podcasts
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