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In another dramatic shift in town, President Trump is calling Iranian leaders "scumb."
Just weeks after praising them as smart and rational people, and Piers Franco Ordonia's reports on the diplomatic whiplash that has come to define Trump's approach to global affairs. Three weeks ago, President Trump described the Iranians as brave people who wanted to change the direction of their country for the better.
“"We're dealing with people that I think are very rational people, and they were”
nice to deal with. They were strong people, smart people." But he delivered a much different characterization yesterday at the night of Summit in Turkey. "I don't want to deal with them anymore. They're scum.
Scum is. They're scum. They're sick people.
They're led by sick people."
It's part of a pattern with the President who often swings between praise and threats in an effort to almost will this war to an end, but you can also hear Trump struggling with that balance, insisting to report us later that the war will not start again. Franco Ordonia's NPR News
“Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh is pulling his National Guard troops out of Washington, DC earlier”
than planned. The move comes after several Democratic governors added members of their National Guard to the city for America 250th celebrations, joining the thousands of troops already there. This and at President Trump's ongoing anti-crime task force, and here's CatLonsdorf has more.
There are a little more than 100 National Guard troops from Minnesota in DC, which
Governor Walsh sent specifically to help ahead of the America 250 celebrations around
the National Mall. It's pretty routine for states to send guard troops ahead of big national events, but DC is not operating as usual these days. As thousands of troops, mostly from Republican-led states, have been patrolling all around the city for months.
Governor Walsh's office told NPR that the decision was made to pull his troops early
“and after they had been seen participating in those presence patrols far from the National”
Mall, something they were not supposed to be doing. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has also threatened similar action for her 160 troops in the city. CatLonsdorf and Pair News, Washington. In a few weeks, Britain gets its seventh prime minister in 10 years.
And Pierce Fat Melke saw a report's former Manchester mayor Andy Burnham through his head in the ring to be the leader of the ruling Labour Party and so far, he has no challengers. The popular former mayor of Manchester nicknamed "The King of the North" confirmed he has submitted his nomination to lead the UK's governing Labour Party and become the
next prime minister, writing on social media that "It's all starting to feel very real." Burnham now looks all but set to reside in turned-downing street in less than two weeks, replacing Kirstama, who resigned last month, amid historically low poll ratings. Last month, Saddam Piannis. Wall Street higher by the closing bell that dial up 117 points,
they're listening to NPR News from Washington. Bonnie Tyler, the British musician behind bombastic 1980s hits, including total eclipse of the heart, has died following an illness. She was 75 years old, and Pierce Isabella Gomez-Armiento has more. Bonnie Tyler had a pension for songs that feel larger than life.
Her musical signature, heart-rending, over-the-top felting that pushed her gravely voice to its limit, often captured the soaring drama of anything she's saying about, whether it was a crushing heartbreak, or her undying faith in love. Tyler's career spans more than 50 years. But the excess and anguish of her 1980s collaborations with producer Jim Steinman came
to define the maximalist pop rock of the decade. Is the Bella Gomez-Armiento and PR News? The Trump administration wants to change what it calls unnecessary and unworkable Biden-era environmental rules designed to cut pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, including buses and large trucks.
The B.A. wants to scale back and postpone two provisions, designed to ensure emissions reducing technology keeps working over the life of the vehicle. The proposal is part of a series of deregulatory efforts by the Trump administration that have rolled back emissions standards for new vehicles, including changes welcomed by trucking groups.
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