"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
month, with no clear indication it will be resolved anytime soon. And here's Tamara Keith
has more."
“On Friday, President Trump announced he was heading into the situation room for a high-level”
meeting about the potential deal, "to make a final determination. He was there for two hours, and we still don't know what he decided. Over the past two months there have been many threats from President Trump and claims of a deal being near. Then last week, he said he might not even sign the deal unless Gulf Arab states like Qatar signed the Abraham Accord, normalizing relations with Israel."
In Pierce, Tamara Keith.
Civil and human rights organizations are suing ICE over conditions of the largest detention
camp in the country. Angela Catergo, with member-station KTEP reports, they also alleged "people held at a tent facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, happened denied due process."
“The lawsuit alleges dangerous and unsanitary living conditions at the tent facility. Those”
include violent use of force biophacers, severe medical neglect and outbreaks of diseases like measles, as well as inadequate and rancid food. The Department of Homeland Security when asked about the lawsuit responded "Ice takes seriously the health and safety of all those detained and," quote, "and called the claims of inhumane treatment, categorically false." The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and three other partners
says detainees fifth amendment right to due process has also been violated and seeks class action status for all of those held at the camp. For NPR News, I'm Angela Couturegan El Paso. The head of the World Health Organization says five patients have recovered during the current Ebola outbreak. This comes as the Africa CDC says a total of 263 Ebola cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, with 43 confirmed deaths
while 1100 suspected infection cases are being investigated. Michael Coloki has more. The WHO Director General Tedros Gibria Sus, who is currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said that the patients had recovered from the Bundibugio strain of the disease, which has been identified in the current outbreak. There are currently no approved medicines for the Bundibugio strain. However, Tedros said that it is still possible for people to recover
from the disease and that his agency is working towards finding vaccines and treatments. Meanwhile, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on African countries to enhance their health response systems and undertake shared responsibility in protecting lives during the current Ebola outbreak. For NPR News, a Michael Coloki in Nairobi. You as futures contracts are trading higher at this hour, you're listening to NPR News.
In a thousand people wearing white halter dresses and platinum-planned wigs, wearing Palm Springs California yesterday, I had of what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 100th birthday. Madison Alment from Member Sation KVCR reports, they broke the Guinness World record for the most Maryland look-alikes in one place. The rules were simple, blonde wig, white halter dress, and volunteer shouted instructions
inside the glam tent where the hairspray flowed freely. As many like Rich Robinson, who came in from Seattle, got glamged up by prose. They're beautifying my Marilyn Monroe hair at this moment. Like the hair products, the impressions flowed too. That's Julie Barron, who came from Hollywood. The look-alikes eventually gathered for the final count with the M.C. Scott Nevins.
Some like it hot, and here, some also like it record-breaking. For NPR News, I'm Madison Alment in Palm Springs. At the weekend box office, back rooms, an indie horror film with internet
origins, took the top spot with an estimated $81 million in its first weekend in theaters.
It's a small budget horror from a 20-year-old first-time filmmaker. In second place, another indie horror obsession with $26 million, this is young audiences turned out in droves to movie theaters around the country this weekend. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington.
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