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at the White House over night following the NATO summit in Turkey that started with divisions
“over the Iran war and ended on a more positive note in Buraz Branko, or Adonias.”
I mean, as we know, Trump's long been frustrated with NATO leaders over their lack of support for the US-led war against Iran, but he also made several complaints about them about defense spending. Trump even stoked those tensions in the beginning when he insisted early that the U.S. should again have control of Greenland instead of Denmark, a comment that he knows and even admitted kind of that hurts his relationship with Europe.
But at the press conference, Trump really flipped a script and showered NATO leaders with praise. Trump returned to the White House after the US military said it had completed its latest round of strikes on Iran in a statement. The military said U.S. forces struck some 90 military targets, including air defense systems and drone depots, Tehran fire, back
siren sounded in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy's fifth fleet headquarters Kuwait's military
“said it intercepted drones and missiles. Democrat Graham Plattener suspended his U.S.”
Senate campaign in Maine on Wednesday, days after being accused of raping a former romantic partner Kevin Miller with Maine public reports in a nearly 12 minute video. Plattener says the allegations against him were "not remotely true" but he accused the political establishment of denying his populist campaign the tools it would need to defeat Republican Senator Susan Collins. And as the party seeks a new nominee, Plattener called on Maine's
Democratic leaders to respect the desires of his record numbers of supporters in the June primary. This is exactly the kind of political system that everyone voted against on June 9th. And for that reason, we need to be assured that it is going to be open and democratic as we move forward.
The party has less than three weeks to select a new nominee. For NPR News, I'm Kevin Miller.
“Trump accounts are a new investment option parents have for their children's future,”
the accounts launched over the weekend for any American under 18. And Piers Steven Besah spoke with financial advisors to find out what family should consider before signing up in investing. Whether parents should invest their own money, depends on if they've already taken advantage of what could be better options.
Kerry Joy Grimes is the CEO of the personal finance company worth money. And she said
one of those options is first, maxing out contributions for your own retirement.
Because what happens is we put money into our kid's stuff and then we end up needing help and retirement, and that is a way worse financial stress on our kids. But if you have a baby born between 2025 and the end of 2028, financial advisors say it's a simple decision. Sign up. Those kids are eligible for a $1,000 contribution from the federal government. Steven Besahopp and Piers News.
This is NPR. The death toll in southern China from tropical store of Mesak is rising at a Thursday news briefing. Officials said flooding has killed 39 people, and that most of the deaths are linked to the breach of a dam. Amid ongoing relief and rescue operations, China is preparing for Typhoon Bobby, which is expected to skirt Taiwan and make landfall in Eastern China Saturday evening.
Health workers responding to an outbreak of Ebola and the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo say they have not been paid by the government. NPR's Duripu Scarra reports that they're protesting delayed wages on fair treatment and a lack of protective gear.
The Buna Buzhio strain of Ebola has second more than 1,700 people in this outbreak and
killed almost 600. Frontline health workers in e-tory province told the Associated Press they have not been paid their wages and bonuses from Congo's government since the outbreak was declared on May 15. They said they're on strike to protest their working conditions. Local media reported that several health care workers protested on Monday, burning tires outside a hospital in Buna. Capital of the hardest hit province in this outbreak. The
strike comes as enrollment for clinical trials have begun in Congo for two treatments that may help treat the Buna Buzhio strain. Deripu Scarra and Piers News, Washington. The HBO's emergency room drama The Pit leads this year's Emmy nominations. The Pit received 25 nominations and the final season of HBO's Hacks landed 24 a single year record for a comedy. Emmy winners will be announced in Los Angeles in September. This is
NPR News. For three weeks in 2020, part of my Seattle neighborhood was taken over by a protest population. We were here to protest police brutality. But it ended in tragedy. The whole space felt darker and angrier. Join me as I investigate the unsolved killing of 16-year-old Antonio May's junior. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
