"Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Noraram.
President Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky next week at the White
“House, according to a White House official, not authorized to talk on the record.”
SNPR's Daniel Kurtz-Lavin reports, "The meeting would be one of several between the two leaders this year." The meeting will happen Tuesday, according to the White House official. The men also met at the G7 Summit in June, as well as at the NATO Summit in Anchor at Turkey earlier this month. At that Turkey summit, Trump said the U.S. would give
Ukraine a license to make patriotair defense systems. That was considered a win for Ukraine as it continues defending itself against Russian missile strikes. The Russian war in Ukraine is now more than four years long.
Trump and Zelensky have had a rough relationship at times, with an early 2025 oval office
meeting that devolved into a heated argument in front of the news media. Daniel Kurtz-Lavin and PR news, the White House. President Trump today imposed sweeping new
“tariffs on 59 countries plus the European Union. That's drawing criticism from affected”
countries, including China. Yon Kaminsen Brumby has more. China's comments come after the Trump administration imposed tariffs of 12.5% on Chinese goods. Speaking at the press conference, Beijing's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said quote, "we oppose all forms of unilateral tariff measures, adding quote, a tariff war or
trade war serves the interests of no one. Washington accuses China of detaining people from the we get ethnic minority group in work camps, a claim Beijing denies. The new tariffs come just as a previous temporary global tariff of 10% expired. Last year, both China and the U.S. engaged in a tip for a tariff trade war that was brought to a close after a meeting between President Trump and Xi Jinping, last October.
"Fanty on News, I'm Yon Kaminsen Brumby, in Taipei."
“U.S. military officials say U.S. missile struck targets in Iran last night for the 13th”
consecutive night. Iran responded by firing on U.S. bases in neighboring Arab countries. Eight months after a ceasefire took effect in Gaza, Palestinian officials say the wars humanitarian toll is still growing that more families have been displaced, NPR's honest Baba reports. Gaza's social development ministry says more than 2,000 children have lost one or both variants since the ceasefire announced last October, bringing the total number
of registered orphan to more than 65,000. The ministry says more than 700 women also became widows, but during the period, while continued her strikes and evacuation orders forced more than 800 families from their shelters. Just last week, Gaza's health officials say two entire families were killed in Israeli air strikes, underscoring how the humanitarian toll continues to spy the ceasefire. For many Palestinians, the ceasefire has changed
litter from the war, and a snowball and Pyronu's Gaza situation.
This is NPR News in Washington. Democrats today recommended that South Carolina hold the first
presidential nominating contest in 2028. The decision must be ratified by the full Democratic National Committee when it meets an August. Invasive species are a global problem, but there are impacts aren't equally distributed. NPR's Jonathan Lampert reports on research in the journal Science suggesting lower income countries experience more harm. Plants and animals often hit rides on airplanes or cargo ships and get plopped into new
environments. Sometimes, these species can wreak havoc on those environments, wiping out native species or devastating crops. Historically, many researchers thought this was a problem of wealthier countries in the global north, which are often more interconnected with global trade. But Sven Bachha, an ecologist at the University of Freeberg, reached a different conclusion by analyzing data from thousands of invasions across the globe.
Regents in the global south are not just some, like all over the global south, the impacts on average are much higher. He says this may stem from lowering income countries having more biodiversity to lose and fewer resources to prevent and respond to invasive species. Jonathan Lampert and PR News. The White House Correspondence Association will hold its annual dinner tonight. The event was interrupted in April when a man tried to force his way
through a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun outside the ballroom where President Trump was scheduled to speak. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says that his speech tonight will be a combination of unifying yet vicious, serious yet hilarious. I'm Norrom, NPR News in Washington. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son. It was in a note, the 16-year-old laughed in the family's garage. It told me he was going to make me cry.
Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle. A week later, he was shot and killed there. Listen to we keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
