Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Tens of millions of people across the Eastern United States are again dealing with smoke
“from Canadian wildfires, and PR's Johnston this reports forecast or say air quality could”
begin improving later today. Smoke will be present from much of the great lakes, northeast, and mid-Atlantic regions, but relief is on the way today. National Weather Service meteorologist Frank Pereira says, "A string of heavy storms will help."
Correcting a break with some clear air spreading down across the northeast behind that. Pereira says the storms are expected to sweep much of the smoke up into New England. Hundreds of wildfires continue to burn in Canada, and Forecaster say more wildfires smoke could return next week. Johnston is NPR News.
President Trump's social media company is planning to sell faster access to the President's posts and PR's Bobby Allen reports the service is being offered to banks and Wall Street trading firms.
“The company that runs Trump's Truth Social Platform is offering to give customers faster”
access to the President's often long and rambling social media posts. At times, Trump makes major announcements about policy or foreign affairs from his truth social account, whether about tariffs or the war in Iran. Those posts can move financial markets. Now for a fee reportedly up to $100,000, customers can access these updates faster than the
general public. Critics of the licensing fee for presidential announcements say it's an abuse of government power that would allow Wall Street investors to profit from White House developments, potentially at the expense of American citizens.
Government ethics disclosure show Trump earned more than $2 billion in his first year back
in office. Bobby Allen, NPR News Authorities in Colorado are continuing to investigate the shooting of a woman outside of an ICE detention center in Aurora.
“Here a Demari from Colorado Public Radio reports the shooting did not involve ICE officers”
that come to mid high intentions over immigration enforcement in a number of states. Police say the suspect Brandon Booth and other employees of the facility run by the private prison contractor Geo Group had been blocked from entering, they say after a verbal confrontation with protesters Booth fired a shot at two women as they walked away, hitting one in her lower body.
Booth then drove off but was detained down the road by police.
He was booked on suspicion of charges including attempted second to remurder and unlawful
caring of a concealed weapon. Colorado Senator John Hickenluber said in a statement that ICE in their contractors are quote completely out of control, a Geo Group spokesperson said that Booth has been placed on unpaid administrative leave and the company is cooperating with law enforcement. For NPR News, I'm Kyardemari in Denver.
This is NPR News in Washington. A nationwide outbreak of cycle of spora is sending more shoppers to local farms for fresh produce at young family farm KC near Kansas City. Farmer Alana Henry says the outbreak is underscoring the value of food grown closer to home.
I anticipate in the coming days and weeks that will see an influx of new customers. More than 1600 people have been sickened in the outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell restaurants in five states. The affected restaurants are in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The contaminated produce was sourced in central Mexico, a massive recall has been issued.
One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents is expected to lead the island today in forced exile. NPR is able to report the musician and performance artist served five years in prison. Newsmanuel Odeiro al-Kantarapno, a sentence to five years in prison for public disorder, he was part of a group who composed an anti-government song that went on to win two Latin
Grammys. It's over, where no longer scared the government's lies are over, they sang. Odeiro completed his five years sentence more than a week ago, but has continued to be detained. A U.S. embassy official in Havana tells NPR if the Cuban government allows Odeiro
will board a plane to Miami on Saturday. The U.S. will allow him to enter under humanitarian or significant public benefit-parallel in P.R. News, Mexico City. I'm Windsor-Johnston and P.R. News, in Washington. Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia.
One took a unique turn. This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle. Listen to we keep us safe, a new true crime series on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
