Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Trump administration and Saudi Arabia signed a nuclear power cooperation agreement
“that the energy department says could lead to the kingdom and reaching its own fuel for”
nuclear reactors. That is some in Congress worried that the Saudis could use the fuel for weapons. Matthew Bun, a former advisor in the Clinton administration, has more on why the Saudis would want a civilian program. They say that they would like to make nuclear energy to cover their domestic needs so
they can export more of their oil and make more money. But they also want to provide defundation over time for having more options to move toward nuclear weapons to the field of need. Speaking there on NPR's all things considered. President Trump will have to make the case to Congress that giving a different deal to Saudi
an ally that Iran doesn't get as a good strategy.
This is the U.S. and Iran continued to trade attacks.
President Trump started the war in February, at least 18 U.S. service members have been killed. The ex-wife of the ICE officer, who fatally shot a man in main last week, alleges that he had a history of domestic violence and racist comments.
“As NPR's magazine reports, ICE is in the midst of a hiring surge, and some worry that”
they could be cutting corners in vetting new hires. The details about the ICE officer's past should have raised red flags. That's according to Kenneth Corey, who spent more than three decades with the New York City Police. "You want to make sure that the people that you're hiring have to temperament and disposition
necessary to do the job." At the NYPD, he says recruits go through a background check and psychological tests, and the agency also interviews neighbors and former employers and looks up school records and police reports. All that takes time.
ICE has hired more than 12,000 officers in less than a year. In a statement, DHS says it applies all the "proper person out vetting regulations," but did not provide specifics. My Ganderson and Pair News The U.S. is reporting the highest number of measles cases since 1991, nearly 2300, according
“to a tracker from Johns Hopkins, if you're as Maria Gidoi reports.”
Here's another way to put it. The U.S. has reported more measles cases in the last 18 months than in the previous 24 years combined. Last year, the case count broke 2000, a number not seen since 1992. The resurgence of measles comes amid falling vaccination rates, Dr. William Moss of Johns
Hopkins says large outbreaks in South Carolina in Utah drove up case counts earlier this year. "And then we've continued to have a smaller outbreaks in other areas, so currently over the past two weeks where we've largely seen cases is in Central Virginia and in Southeast and Pennsylvania."
Meanwhile, many local health departments are grappling with staff and funding cuts. Maria Gidoi and PR News Listening to NPR News from Washington The host today approved legislation borrowing members of Congress from buying individual stock.
That advances a bipartisan ethics proposal both sites have supported, but have failed to enact. But the bill would accept the president from the trading ban, and its future in the Senate is uncertain. Critics say it falls short of a true stock trading ban because it would let lawmakers
keep stocks there already own and continue selling them. This is how lawmakers prepare to leave for a month-long recess. One of an internet famous pair of bald eagles known as Jackie and Shadow that live
high above Big Bear Lake in California, maybe in critical condition, that's according
to a wildlife rescue group. From Member Station KVCR, Madison Ahmed has more. The O-Hi Raptor Center said in an Instagram post that the eagle believed to be Jackie has severe anemia and kidney issues, and that veterinarians are trying to determine the cause.
The eagle was brought to them after it was seen fighting with two younger eagles last Friday. Friends of Big Bear Valley, which operates the 24/7 live stream of the eagle's nest, says Jackie has not been seen in several days. Jackie is not banded, so wildlife officials cannot ID her.
They say the eagle does not appear to have any physical injuries. For NPR news, I'm Madison Ahmed in San Bernardino. He was future's contracts or trading flat at this hour. By the closing bell today, the Dow was down 6 points, the NASDAQ, down 146 points, that's more than 1/2 percent.
The S&P 500 was down 10. The last time Antonio Mae's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old laughed in the family's garage. He told me he would not make me cry. Antonio Jr. 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."
