"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noraram.
German authorities say the suspect who drove a vehicle into a crowd near Berlin's annual
“private event is dead after shots were fired during a confrontation.”
As my Nicholson reports." Police shot and killed 21-year-old Abdul Balaut in a garden allotment on the outskirts of Berlin on Sunday evening. Prosecutors say evidence was mounting to suggest the incident, which killed one and injured at least 29 others was an Islamist terror attack.
Balaut, a German national with Lebanese heritage, attempted to join Islamic State Group on a trip to Lebanon last year in May, a court in Berlin convicted Balaut of preparing a serious act of violence and handed down a suspended sentence. He had been released while prosecutors appealed. For MPI News, I'm as menoculson, in Munich."
NPR's new government says it once peace with Israel, but it's far in minister reiterated
"Israel must withdraw from Syrian territory deceased." NPR's Emily Feng has more. "In an interview with Al-Jazeera, serious leader Ahmed Al-Sharraz, that he wanted a security
“agreement with Israel, and that Damascus was "of waiting confrontation with Israel"”
as well as in Lebanon. U.S. President Trump has called on Syria to intervene in Lebanon against the militant group Hezbollah. Israel's former regime was toppled in late 2024. It was staunchly anti-Israel, but now Syria's new leaders have indicated a willingness
to talk with Israel. Yet political will in Syria to forge ties with Israel is now muted, because Israel continues to occupy Syrian villages, land, and the peak of a strategic mountain. Territory, it seized from Syria back in 2024. Emily Feng and Pernus Tel Aviv."
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says, "His force is bombed as ship in the Casby in sea, between Russia and Iran. He said it was transporting military cargo in cooperation with Iran. Iran condemned the attack, saying it was a commercial vessel, and one sailor was killed.
“It's now 100 days until the mid-term elections.”
Democrats in Maine have officially selected former State Senate President and longer. Troy Jackson is their new candidate for U.S. Senate. NPR's Elena Moore reports." Nearly 600 Maine Democrats serving as delegates participated in the nominating convention.
It wasn't close, Jackson won all but five votes. It was an expected victory, given nearly all of Jackson's primary rivals dropped out before the convention, so in a speech after securing the nomination, Jackson looked forward, laying out his vision for the campaign, one rooted in economic populism. "If you believe that Maine deserves a center who will fight like hell for working class
people will stand with us." It goes on to face long-time Republican incumbent Susan Collins this fall, in a race that may determine which party controls the Senate, Elena Moore and PR News, Bangor Maine. This is NPR News in Washington.
The education department is reversing a civil rights policy, dating back to the Obama and Biden administrations. NPR's Corey Turner reports. The policy, called disparate impact, was previously used to tell the nation's schools that an action may be considered discriminatory, even if there's no intent to discriminate.
For example, classroom discipline. Schools were warned that if your data shows students of color were being suspended or expelled at unusually high rates, whether it's intentional or not, you could be investigated. The Trump administration announced its dropping, disparate impact, assistant secretary for civil rights Kimberly Richie, said quote, "Schools will be empowered to address classroom
issues without fearing the federal government will weaponize anti-discrimination laws. Meanwhile, 60 civil rights and educational organizations jointly condemned the move, Corey Turner NPR News." Typhoon Newell made landfall in southern China this morning, with heavy rain and gale forest winds.
The storm forced the relocation of more than 700,000 people, a party say to expect rain for the next few days, as it moves inland, and residents should be on alert for flash floods. Newell passed within 50 miles of neighboring Hong Kong, disrupting air travel. UNESCO today designated the Normandy D.D. beaches in northern France as a protected world
heritage site. The UN organization said the beaches formed an exceptional cultural landscape shaped by the events of 1944, the committee meeting in South Korea also out at an added Mount Olympus and Greece to the list.
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