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President Trump says the U.S. will spend nearly $700 million
to support coal-fired power plants.
“Today we're officially invoking the Defense Production Act”
to save 13 coal plants in West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Arkansas. Oklahoma, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Trump cited the Cold War era national defense law to support coal plants across the country and help build new coal plants in Alaska and West Virginia. If built, the plants would be the first new U.S. coal plant since 2013.
Environmentalists say the plant would put polluters first and jeopardize Americans' health. The Pentagon has announced another deadly strike on a boat in the Pacific, and Piers Quill Lawrence reports U.S. forces have killed more than 200 people this way on suspicion of narco-trafficking.
U.S. Southern Command released a Granny Surveillance video on social media of a small boat exploding into flames. South Com said two men died in the strike and alleged that they were trafficking drugs to the United States. Since last September, the U.S. has hit at least 60 boats this way,
“and in one case, returned to Killship-Rect survivors.”
President Trump has declared drug cartels to be a terrorist group at war with the United States. Human rights advocates say these strikes amount to murder. Government data suggests that the supply of cocaine arriving in the U.S. decreased in the nine months since the military began lethal strikes on the small speed boats. Quill Lawrence and Pira News.
Election officials are still counting ballots in California after Tuesday's primary election. As NPR's Miles Parks reports, that's expected because of how the state votes, but President Trump still sought to cast doubt on the process.
All of California's 23 million registered voters are allowed to vote by mail.
An election officials can receive mail ballots up to a week after election day, as long as the ballots were post-marked by Tuesday. That means votes for the primary race are still rolling in, which also means finalizing a winner can take a while. It's been the case in the state for years.
The President Trump still posts online that he thinks the counting delay is evidence of fraud.
“California is home to a handful of competitive house races this November,”
and if any of those elections go the Democrats' way, experts expect the President to use similar tactics to contest the results. Miles Parks and Pira News, Washington. Today marks 37 years since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing. Chinese authorities are intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the massacre of hundreds,
possibly thousands of pro-democracy protesters. Police have told victims families to call off an annual tribute at a Beijing cemetery. In Hong Kong, police have increased scrutiny to prevent commemorations. The Tiananmen mothers group continues to demand justice and accountability. Amnesty International has criticized the suppression calling it a "heartless act" by Chinese authorities.
Wall Street rallied today as oil prices fell. The Dow Sword nearly one and three quarters of a percent. This is NPR News.
The new world screw worm fly is threatening the $113 billion US cattle industry
for the first time in more than a half century. An infant state, an infestation from its flesh-eating larva, has been confirmed in South Texas. Officials had been working to keep the parasite from reaching Texas since its reappearance in Mexico in 2024.
The US eradicated the past in the early 1970s by breeding sterile male flies and dropping swarms of them from planes to mate with wild females. The same strategies a big part of the response now. The Obama Presidential Center opens this month in Chicago and PR's A Tamar Keith got an early look.
The first word visitors will see when they enter the museum is hope. It leaves former President Barack Obama's story with those of other Americans who work to make the US a more perfect union. Valerie Jarrett is CEO of the Obama Foundation. While people who feeling slightly run down and hopeless to say,
"Well wait a minute, look at all those stories of ordinary people who face like insurmountable obstacles, and they overcame them when they work together to be these forces for good. Hey, maybe I can do something too." There's also a replica of the Obama era oval office and a display
of former First Lady Michelle Obama's dresses. Tamar Keith and PR News Chicago. The NBA banned two people for life from its arenas after one of them was arrested shortly after running onto the court during game one of the NBA finals last night and trying to take a selfie next to Spurs star Victor Wembenyana when
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