"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan.
President Trump said Thursday he wants to build a pedestrian bridge to connect the Lincoln Memorial to the Potomac River.
“It would yet be another of the list of buildings and renovation projects he's undertaken”
around Washington, D.C., and P.R.'s Daniel Kurtzleben has more." Trump teased the latest plan from the Oval Office. "It's called the Promenade, they want to call it the Trump Promenade, but I don't know if I want to do this. But it's going to be beautiful.
It's a beautiful project." Interior Secretary Doug Bergom explained that the bridge would go over the roads that separate the Lincoln Memorial from the nearby river. Neither Trump nor Bergom said how much the project would cost or where the funding would come from.
This year, Trump has also torn down the White House East Wing to build a ballroom that he has said will include a military complex underneath. He has also set in motion plans to build a massive arch across the river from the Lincoln Memorial. Daniel Kurtzleben and P.R. News, the White House.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will increase its air defenses to counter”
the recent Ukrainian drone attacks which have reached deep inside Russia, including the city of St. Petersburg. Russia's air defense missiles fail to shoot those drones down. The attacks have cast a large cloud over a major Russian economic forum underway in Putin's hometown.
Speaking at the White House, President Trump once again called for an end to the more than four-year-old war. "They're going to make both make compromises. I suggested those compromises, and we've had a lot to do with it.
We'd love to see there two very good people that do very, I mean, incredible countries,
beautiful countries, they've had a sub." Meanwhile, Russia's President Vladimir Zelensky is proposing a face-to-face meeting with him and Putin. President Trump says he supports the idea, and in Washington, the House on Thursday passed an $8 billion aid package for Ukraine, and the House called for additional economic
sanctions against Russia. Regulators of the Postal Service say the self-funding mailing agency is no longer expected to run out of money. RDR's Hansi LeWang reports it comes as the post office stopped making payments to its retirement plan.
With people sending a lot less mail compared to decades ago, post-message-general David Standard told Congress back in March that the U.S. Postal Service was on track to be out of money and have to stop deliveries within a year. But the acting share of the Postal Regulatory Commission, Robert Top, now tells a House over-site subcommittee that regulators have suspended requirements for U.S.P.S.
to make around $15 billion in retirement payments over the next few years.
The Commission's action offers some breathing room and extends the time before the Postal Services reported in silvency and the stated crisis of stopping mail delivery to at least another several years, providing the Postal Service makes judicious decisions about its expenditures starting now. U.S.P.S. is of initial support of NPR, Hansi LeWang and Pernus, and you're listening
to NPR news. The National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot of a United Airlines flight that struck a light pole on the New Jersey Turnpike while landing on May 3rd. We're flying to low and slow during the final approach to breathe from the light pole struck a tractor trailer that driver was injured, dash cam video from the truck when viral.
None of the 231 people on the Venice Italy to Newark Flight were injured the plain land it's safely. A fleshyating fly has been found in Texas, it's an outbreak of the New World Screwworm. It could be devastating to the cattle industry, NPR's ping-wong reports. The New World Screwworm is a parasitic fly that feeds on livestock and other animals.
It was a scourge on the U.S. cattle industry in the early 1900s, until it was eradicated in the 1960s by the release of many sterile flies to slow their reproduction. Now a case has been found in Texas. Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, says they've taken immediate actions.
“The single most important thing today is vigilance from our producers, those who have”
pads, people in South Texas. The U.S.D.A. has sent dozens of responders and are looking to increase their supply of
sterile flies over the 4 million they're already releasing each week.
Rollins stress that the New World Screwworm does not affect the quality of meat and that infected animals can recover if treated early, ping-wong and PR news. The Carolina Hurricanes have tied the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup final at one win each Carolina got to come from behind, four to three win and overtime against the Las Vegas Knights on Thursday.
Game two of the NBA Finals is tonight in San Antonio, Texas, the next versus the spurs. This is NPR. Support for MP. This week on Consider This, the drama at CBS News, some of the most respected journalists in America say their corporate ownership is bowing to political pressure.
It's intimidation. They've created a climate of fear to make the news organization unwilling to tackle the problem and report to news. More than 60 minutes correspondent Steve Croft, this week on Consider This.
