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President Trump says two Army helicopter crew members on an Apache helicopter shot down

Monday near the Straithoform moves have been rescued.

The U.S. has deployed helicopters and other aircraft to enforce a military blockade along the critical waterway. The President spoke with reporters late Monday night in New York City after leaving the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. They pilot to find, yeah, nobody injured.

We are going to issue a report. It's unclear why that helicopter went down. The San Antonio spurs one game three of the NBA Finals Monday night at Madison Square Garden. The final score.

San Antonio 115, the New York Nix 11, New York leads the best of seven series. Two games to one game five is Wednesday night in New York City. President Trump attended the game sitting in an enhanced security suite with the Nix owner James Darwin. Keybrases for Congress will test how much voters are willing to embrace candidates with

scandals in their past. NPR's broad response reports. There was a time when scandal was a death now for a political career. But Brandon Roddinghaus, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, says these days, some politicians are more likely to lean into a scandal.

A lot of politicians will simply frame a scandal as a partisan attack or a misinformation or as a witch hunt that helps rally their base. He says the strategy leverages a deep distrust in the media and a hyperpolarized environment where partisanship outweighs everything else. Barbara Sprunt and Piano's Washington.

Watchdogs at the government accountability office are raising concerns about the census bureau's work on modernization and how it stores in processes data. It collects through the federal government surveys and PR's Hansi LaWang, the Wong reports. The Census Bureau has a new program for managing the survey responses.

It collects to produce key statistics, including results from the 2030 census, the Kevin

Wallshire Director of the Government Accountability Office sees a problem. He says the way the bureau has estimated the timing of the rollout for parts of its centralized data repository runs the risk of delays in releasing 2030 census data. This is how we allocate seats in our House of Representatives. This is how we distribute billions of dollars of taxpayer funds.

So we really have to get this done in time, which is why getting the scheduled done and making sure that its comprehensive and reliable is so important. The Census Bureau says it agrees with the GAO's recommendations for scheduling changes on Zila Wong and Piano's. One of Africa's top soccer referees, Oman Artawn, won't be officiating the upcoming

World Cup this afternoon, being denied entry into the United States from Somalia, and that nation is one of several currently under a wide-ranging travel band by the Trump administration. This is NPR News from Washington.

At least 35 people have been killed in the Philippines after a powerful 7.8 earthquake shook

the southern part of the country Monday. An estimated 200 people have been injured, many of the deaths were the result of a landslide. The country's president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is ordering a disaster response effort to the affected area. One of the most beloved World Cup collectors in item isn't a trading card or a jersey.

Its stickers produced by an Italian company, Panini, collecting them as a decades-old tradition in Europe and Latin America. It's catching on in the U.S. and P.R. is juicing at a Kim reports. Over the past few weeks, many soccer fans have been focused on completing a World Cup themed sticker album that requires nearly 1,000 pieces, which are sold in blind packs of 7.

Interest in the sticker trace in the U.S. has been picking up over the past decade. And this year is the biggest demand yet that's according to soccer journalist Clemente Lise. This will cup as being hosted in part by the U.S. can in Mexico.

I think this summer, a lot of first-time people are going to get into the stickers.

Panini America told NPR that retailers in the U.S. reported being sold out of sticker packets within a week of the release. Julianne Kim and P.R. News.

The automakers still want us as recalling more than 1 million Jeep Wranglers in gladiators

because of a risk of a fire. Under the model year 2021 through 2025, there's wiring on an electronic hydraulic steering pump that may be the problem. The dealerships will notify you. This is NPR.

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