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The White House says the newest plane to serve as Air Force One will soon go out of service
“for upgrades and PR's Joel Rose reports aviation experts question whether one month is”
enough time for significant changes. The White House says the newest Air Force One will be out of service for about a month in the fall, while it receives "upgrades and enhancements." The Boeing luxury jet was donated by Qatar last year. It was retrofitted so quickly that some aerospace experts say it is not as secure as
other Air Force One jets. Richard Abu Lafayah with aerodynamic advisory says one month isn't enough time to change that. "The idea that anything meaningful could be accomplished in this limited amount of time is somewhat ridiculous.
I mean, this is a multi-year process."
Abu Lafayah and others say they were surprised to see the president fly in this plane to a meeting in Turkey earlier this month. Joel Rose and PR news, Washington.
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Cuba is the leading sponsor of what he calls radical”
leftism in the U.S. and he's naming organizations that he says have been working with Cuban intelligence and PR's Michelle Kalman reports. Just days after Secretary Rubio hosted a conference on what he describes as a resurgence of left-wing political violence, he's issuing a 70-page report detailing what he sees as Cuba's history of an ideological battle against the United States starting in the
1960s. He says Cuba's "marked-sis" project not only survived the collapse of the Soviet Union but thrived, and he calls Ivana the ideological capital of the modern radical left. Rubio's parents were born in Cuba but fled to the U.S. before the Revolution, Rubio began his political career in Florida and was known for his tough stand against Cuba's
Communist government. Michelle Kalman and PR News, the state department, a new immigration role may make it harder for international students to remain in the U.S. to finish their studies historically they could remain as long as they were making progress but now they'll have to, they'll have up to four years to finish or apply for a formal extension as NPR's Alyssa
Natwary reports. The Department of Homeland Security says the change will strengthen national security through regular vetting and cut down on what it calls "forever" students. Universities worry this could impact programs like PhDs which often take far longer than four years.
There's also new restrictions on switching programs and changing majors. One of the selling points in the U.S. system is you come to college to explore, to find yourself.
“You can double major, you can switch majors, that's what makes it so attractive and unique.”
In politics of the new policy say this is an example of how the goals of immigration are budding up against the goals of American higher ed, Alyssa Natwary and Pionus. A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico has strengthened into tropical storm birth that could threaten several states later this week. This is NPR News.
Congo's health ministry says at least 930 people have died in the country's Ebola outbreak more than 2,300 cases have been confirmed. The outbreak was declared in eastern Congo on May 15th. It's the fastest growing Ebola outbreak on record. There's no approved vaccine or treatment for this strain of the virus.
A prominent Russian opposition figure says he'll drop out of electoral politics indefinitely amidst state pressure. He had been a rare public voice in Russia against the war in Ukraine, as NPR's Charles Maine's reports. For us, the Deshton had hoped to run for a spot in Russia's parliament this September,
his campaign centered on his opposition to the war in Ukraine. Yet, the Deshton says he'll stop fighting his exclusion from politics rather than risk jail time for him or his supporters. The Deshton follows recent weeks that saw the state label him a foreign agent and can victim of spreading extremist content on social media.
While the latter only involved a small court fine, both technically disqualify him from public office, the Deshton insists the moves are designed to silence him and other anti-war views ahead of the September vote, that despite polls that show a majority of Russians wanting an end to the war, now in its fifth year. Charles Maine's MPR News Moscow
New Jersey Republican legislator Michael Inganomort is asking Democratic Governor Mikey Sheryl to intervene after FIFA said it will sell pieces of the grass field used for yesterday's
World Cup final at MetLife Stadium in Canomort says the state paid $13 million to upgrade
the stadium, including replacing artificial turf with grass, which makes its state-owned property. He said quote FIFA needs to get off our turf, literally, this is MPR. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left and the family's garage. Antonio Jr. left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed
there.
