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Trump of sexually assaulting and defaming her, has received a $5.6 million payment from her civil case against Trump.
“She waited three years after jury found Trump was liable for damages.”
The money was held in Esgro while the President appealed the award." President Trump's hosting Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaiidi today during a joint news conference Trump defended a decision to reinstate the U.S. blockade on the straight of our moves, as it's war with Iran escalates.
Also says there won't be a 20 percent toll on ships going through the critical passageway,
but wants to strike investment deals with other countries in the region. And they said, "We'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars, and continue our record setting because there's never been a time like this with the United States, with the factories, with the plants, with everything else.
And we would like to invest tremendously in the United States as opposed to charging the fee. And I like that, actually, because I don't think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the straight or for any other straight."
“The U.S. any Ron have been trading fire for several days.”
The President's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C. has been extended until inauguration date 2029, the Pentagon confirmed to NPR, thousands of armed and uniform troops have been patrolling the city for nearly a year. The latest from NPR's Cat lawn store. President Trump first deployed the National Guard to D.C. last August.
After declaring a crime emergency in the city, despite violent crime being at a 30-year low. That emergency declaration lifted a month later, but the guard and the federal law enforcement task force that they're a part of remained. Since then, the number of troops has steadily increased, to now nearly 5,000, from
more than 20 different states in a cost of around $3 million per day.
Two different studies have found that the presence of the National Guard has had no effect on violent crime in the city. The White House did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on why the extension of the deployment for another two and a half years was deemed necessary. Cat lawn store, NPR News, Washington.
Two as immigration and customs enforcement will pause non-urge and vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in less than a week, that, according to Maine Senator Angus King, who spoke with NPR, who's office spoke with NPR, a spokesman for King says, "The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the policy shift. Maine Centers, who's in Collins, also posted on ex today that she had called for change.
Most recent death happened, Monday in Bitterford, Maine, where ICE agents tried to pull over the car of a 26-year-old Colombian man. Members of congressional committee question Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Worst today, he told lawmakers a central bank will make high inflation a thing of the past, but he did not immediately specify how.
It's NPR." A drop in oil prices in June led to a sharp drop in inflation after May's more than three-year record high, and Piers Steven Besah with more.
More consumer prices in June were up 3.5 percent from a year earlier, higher than the
Federal Reserve wants, but lower than May's high. Prices in June were down 0.4 percent from a month earlier. The decrease primarily comes down to the main driving force behind inflation in recent months, energy prices. They fell 5.7 percent in June from a month earlier.
Gas prices at the end of June were about 71 cents lower than they were during the May peak, and they've made steady sense. But renewed conflict between the U.S. and Iran could send those prices back up. Part of a way food and energy prices, and so-called cornflation for the 12 months ending in June, was 2.6 percent.
Steven Besahop and Piornese. The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads has fallen for the third straight year, but NPR's Joel Rose reports fatalities are still well above pre-pandemic levels. Strivers struck and killed just over 6,700 people last year. The drop of 7 percent from the year before, according to a report from the governor's
Highway Safety Association, California alone accounted for more than half of the drop. 2025 marked the third straight year that the number of pedestrian fatalities has declined since peaking in 2022, but last year's number is still 10 percent higher than the total from 2016. The report also looked at why and when pedestrians are killed and found some familiar patterns.
SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans account for more than half of pedestrian deaths, and more than three-quarters of fatalities happen after dark. Joel Rose and Piornese, Washington. I'm Lakshmi saying, "NPR News." Your mornings are busy, make the news simple.
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