"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Roman.
President Trump announced his latest major project in Washington, D.C., he says he wants
“to construct a promenade that contacts the Lincoln Memorial to the nearby Potomac River,”
at a White House event Thursday with the President Interior Secretary Doug Burnham, claimed the proposed promenade would be part of the original plan for the National Mall. People come from around the world. They don't know that 100 yards away is the beautiful Potomac River, which was part of the original plan. And now they'd be able to walk around the Lincoln
Memorial, walk on a pedestrian bridge over the first highway, walk over the next one, and
right down to the water." During the White House event, the President, again, touted his proposed 250-foot arch behind the Lincoln Memorial, overlooking the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery. The arch is drawn lawsuits and criticism from the public. The election officials are still counting the ballots in California after this week's primary election, but his NPR's miles parks reports President Trump sought to cast out 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 postmarked 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's still posted 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 PR News Washington
is where the soldiers detained four Palestinian female students in occupied West Bank this week, NPR's NUHA Muslow reports one of the young women detained is an American. Israel's military told NPR the four young women were detained for quote promoting hostile
“terrorist activity without providing further details. The women have not been charged. They”
include American citizens, Sama Saffee. Saffee's mother, May Farsak, who's also American, told NPR, Israeli soldiers rated the home around Donut Tuesday and arrested the 20 year old despite telling them she's an American citizen. She says her daughter has a chronic condition that requires medication. The women are all students at Berserche University. Israeli forces rated the university earlier this year, and fired live ammunition, wounding students during a screening
of an Oscar nominated film on Gaza. For NPR News, I'm no Hamoslow in Ramallah. One day after Israel and Lebanon announced a ceasefire agreement had been reached, has Bova is rejecting the deal in calling for a complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces. Has Bova says the demand that its forces leave southern Lebanon would mean to feed in surrender. Israel and Lebanon resumed their negotiations later this month. This is NPR.
The Trump administration is imposing economic sanctions against Cuba's president Miguel Diaz Canal, his wife and three other people, including this son and grandson of Cuba's former president Ronald Castro. The new penalties come as President Trump has been threatening military action against Cuba, and the United States has ordered an energy blockade of the either nation which is caused of energy blackouts and widespread economic problems.
Diaz Canal says the U.S. efforts are an attempt to escalate the conflict between the U.S. and Cuba and the sanctions are drawing immediate condemnation from the Havana government. The rapper Drake this week has the biggest album and the week's biggest song, NPR Stephen Thompson has more. In mid-May, Drake released three albums on a single day. Iceman, Habib T, and Made of Honor. Last week he did something no one has ever done before.
He landed all of the week's top three albums. This week those three albums are still in the top
ten, and Iceman holds it number one for a second week. That song, Janice S. T. F. U. holds it
number one on the Hot 100 singles chart. It's one of four Drake songs in the top ten and one of 29 Drake songs to crack this week's Hot 100. Stephen Thompson and PR news. The Carolina Hurricanes have tied the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup finals with Las Vegas at one win each Carolina got a come from behind four to three win in overtime Thursday night. This is NPR news. Support for NPR news shows new music new movies keeping up with pop culture sometimes feels like
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