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Andrews before leaving Wednesday on his first flight aboard a new Air Force one. This was a gift from a country that's greeted us very well, and there were ally of us over in the release guitar. And I went to Boeing. I said, "Who has the best one?"

They said, "Catar. There's no, there's never been a plane like it."

Before flying to North Dakota, for the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential Library, Trump also defended his latest mandatory financial disclosure. That shows he took in more than a billion dollars in crypto earnings alone last year. The White House's Trump has no financial conflicts with his government role and only acts in the public interest.

President Trump appealing to court ruling that blocks key parts of his executive order

that calls for restricting voting by mail. It impairs Hansi Lovong, reports on the ruling that found Trump's directives to be on constitutional. So far, President Trump's order has not directly affected mail-in voting. It calls for the U.S. Postal Service to come up with lists of eligible voters and deliver mail-in

bounds only to people on those lists. U.S. P.S. is financial supporter of NBR. Federal Judging Boston found Trump's directives overstep his authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress to set federal election rules. The Trump administration is now appealing the judge's ruling, which applies to the 23 mainly Democratic-led states at Challenge Shumps Order, plus Washington D.C.

And there is another legal hurdle facing Trump's order. A judge in D.C. has blocked mailing

rules that U.S. P.S. proposed in response to the order, and just found the proposal

violated an earlier agreement U.S. P.S. made to prioritize timely delivery of election mail. On Z-Lawong, NPR news. The authorities in the Ukrainian capital say a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack has killed at least 10 people and injured more than 50 others. Officials say there is damage

across the city, Ukraine's foreign minister is calling the assault a night of horror. Millions of people from the Midwest to the east coals are dealing with sweltering heat and humidity for a cast to last through early next week. In Chicago officials are still taking lessons from a deadly 1990s heat wave, Alex Deppent, a member stationed up with U.B.E.Z. reports. This heat wave quickly came to Chicago after weeks of below-average temperatures. A prop-back

memories of July 1995 when 739 people died from heat over the course of a week. Chicago

Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nats. Holt was a field supervisor at the time. She says

she wishes more was done.

"I always somebody would have been with them. I always somebody would have cough or instead

of us finding them like that alone." Now, Holt says well-being checks have greatly increased. The department gets daily heat emergency reports and can allocate resources on the fly, and building codes now require certain apartment buildings to have air conditioning. Still, it's very hot, and it will be through at least the end of the week. For NPR news, I'm Alex Deppent in Chicago.

"This is NPR." "Aid workers and Venezuela say last week's back-to-back earthquakes are leading to a major medical crisis. They're warning that unless it's brought under control quickly, the crisis will take even more lives of latest death toll tops 2,200. Health officials in Idaho are investigating two outbreaks tied to people drinking raw milk. Whether 100 people have gotten

stick from Boise State Public Radio or in Patterson reports." The Idaho Department of Health and Wellfair says the spike of illnesses tied to drinking unpasturized or raw milk began in May, and that most people are sick from two different milking operations, which are both cooperating with the investigation. Officials say many tested positive for can be low bacteriosis. A bacterial infection,

Idaho does not require raw milk to be tested for pathogens before going to market. Felicia Wu is a professor of food safety, talks ecology, and risk assessment at Michigan State University. "Weak after weak there are reports of outbreaks and cases of illness associated with raw milk consumption." A spokesperson for the department said they have no plans for new guidance or restrictions on raw milk. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Patterson in Kuski, Idaho.

"The U.S. is through to the World Cups Round of 16, the U.S. men's national soccer team, beat Bosnia Herzegovina, two goals to nil Wednesday, and will next face Belgium in Seattle on Monday. The team will be with Alphalar and Balagan, Balagan to open scoring against Bosnia Herzegovina, but later to a red card, the U.S. played a man down from much of the second half.

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