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"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.

During his prime time speech to the nation Thursday evening, President Trump revived

his long-running allegations about U.S. election security, focusing heavily on China,

and purest annual curtslavin." Well, he said he's declassifying and releasing documents regarding the security of U.S. elections. And he talked about those documents as covering any number of theories about how he says U.S. elections have been interfered with, including, by foreign actors like China.

Now, to be upfront, we're being careful how we talk about this, because, like you said, Trump has spread disinformation and lies about elections for years. Trump claimed that Beijing improperly acquired data about millions of U.S. voters, saying that presents an unprecedented election security nightmare. His remarks contradict U.S. intelligence findings and a spokesperson for the Chinese

embassy in Washington, said China has never and will never interfere in U.S. presidential

elections. Trump's remarks about China come about two months of poor leaders. Xi Jinping is due in Washington for a summit.

Trump administration has announced a new round of 26 percent tariffs on some products from

Brazil, Katherine Osborne reports on the decision that followed a year-long trade investigation. The Trump administration put heavy tariffs on Brazil last year, using an emergency legal authority that has since been struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, it's used a different pathway based on a probe of what it calls unfair trade practices. Brazil's government rejects that characterization and has been in talks with Washington

to try to head off the duties. Thousands of products will have exemptions. The tariffs have become a major issue in Brazil's presidential election. A prominent right-wing Brazilian politician defended the tariffs last year. But when they arrived, it's left-wing President, who's running for reelection, saw a popularity

bump as he fought them. For NPR news, I'm Katherine Osborne in re-edition era. To Ukraine, the dismissal of the country's tech savvy defense minister's park protest around the country expected to continue today.

In Piersmanica, Kisses reports from Kiev, the outgoing defense minister's tenure, go inside

it with a dramatic shift in Ukraine's favor on the battlefield. Nihano Fedorov, who's 35, had been in the defense job just six months, speaking to reporters Fedorov said he struggled to work with Ukraine's old-school military chief-ilks-under-sir-ski. Fedorov said "sir-ski blocked attempts at innovation." "Isanistorosop."

Instead of figuring out how to defeat Russia asymmetrically Fedorov said, the commander of Ukraine's forces has figured out how to divide the country. Ukrainian President, Willa Demer Zelensky, removed Fedorov from the post as part of a government re-shuffle. The dismissal sparked demonstrations in Ukrainian cities, protesters demand that Fedorov

be reinstated. Joannica Kisses and PR news, Kiev. This is in PR news. A team of scientists has found a kind of sugar in the center of our galaxy. The discovery may have implications for how life began in Piers' arid annual reports.

To look for clues about where the ingredients of life came from, researchers pointed two telescopes at the space between the stars of the Milky Way. This interstellar medium is a chemical factory that produces a range of organic molecules, including the scientists just announced a four-carbon sugar. Astrophysicist Ithas Kuhn-Hemenis-Serra at the Center for Astrobiology says the discovery

was thrilling. "They're hard, that's beating, that's super fast, you can let's do it excited." The results suggest that sugars may have been incorporated into asteroids as they coalesced in the interstellar medium. Such a space rock could have then struck the early Earth, sweetening the stage for the emergence

of life here. Areid annual and PR news. "Ritans, King of the North, will take a step closer to becoming prime minister today. Andy Burnham is to become leader of the ruling labor party during a special party conference. One of them is the former mayor of Greater Manchester, and is the only candidate in the

contest to replace Keer Stormer." It was expected to go to Buckingham Palace and resign as prime minister on Monday. 26-year-old American Jackson Super is leading the way at Gauss British Open, he's heading

into today's second round of the tournament at Royal Burkdale, North of Liverpool, with

one stroke lead shooting a five under par 65 in the first round, his first British Open. I'm trial Snyder, in PR news." The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage. "You'd tell me you've no make me cry."

Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later, he was shot and killed there. "I need some a ref me, just as for my son."

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