The White House is read out of President Trump's major back-to-back meetings ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are also in town to pay their final respects to one of their most prominent and vocal champions in Congress.
“We have more from NPR's Deepa Chiveram. Trump's separate meetings with Zelensky and Netanyahu come as the war between Ukraine and Russia and the war the US and Israel launched against Iran have no end in sight.”
Earlier in the day, Trump joined Fox News for an interview and responded to questions on potential intelligence Netanyahu wanted to share with Trump on Iran's nuclear capabilities. Trump told Fox he didn't need that intel from the Israeli leader, Netanyahu Zelensky and Trump are all attending the funeral of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham that's being held in Washington. Deepa Chiveram and PR News the White House. The funeral service is being held this hour at the National Cathedral following this morning's congressional tribute at the US Capitol.
Graham died earlier this month at the age of 71. President Trump's anti-crimed task force in Memphis has quietly become an immigration enforcement crackdown. That's as Trump has said he has plans for similar task forces in other cities or from NPR's Cat-Lone Store. President Trump launched the Memphis Safe Task Force last fall with the support of Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee despite crime being at a 25 year low in the city.
Federal and local officials never mentioned immigration enforcement as a goal, but the first months brought a major spike in immigration arrests.
“A vast majority of those arrested did not have criminal convictions.”
That mirrors a similar trend in the first few months of Trump's ongoing anti-crimed task force in Washington, D.C. Experts tell NPR it follows a pattern of this administration conflating immigration and crime. The White House told NPR both task forces have "yielded tremendous results" without providing evidence. Cat-Lone Store and PR News. Nearly three dozen major wildfires are now burning across central and eastern Oregon cattle country. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports thousands of people have been evacuating from small towns.
Visibility is less than a mile in some places in eastern Oregon as dense hazardous wildfire smokers and golfed valleys. Emergency crews used a school bus to evacuate people like Catherine Randall from the small town of Huntington along the Snake River to a makeshift red cross shelter. I just got my computer and a couple of things. I figured you know you take a quick look around and it's either going to be there when you get back or it's nice. The Fox Fire near Huntington is one of five large range fires burning along the Oregon Idaho State Line alone,
chewing through tinder dry range land and sagebrush, ranchers are scrambling to move cows and are worried whether they'll be any grass left by summers end. Kirk Sigler and PR News Ontario Oregon. It's NPR. It has already been a record year for cyclists for the diarrhea causing parasites that's expected to sick in thousands more people. And PR Sookin Nuguchi reports it comes amid deep cuts to public health in the U.S.
For money to handle outbreaks and food safety states rely mostly on grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration. The Trump administration's cuts to federal agencies slashed those grants. Sarah Sorcer is regulatory affairs director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Delays lack of clarity, just time-to-solving problems are all symptoms of this broader issue that particular state and local public health departments are in crisis. Many states have cut staff who investigate outbreaks.
She says leading to consumer confusion about which foods are safe to eat. Yugin Nuguchi and PR News. Parts of Japan's Southern Maine Island of Kiyushu are recovering from a deadly earthquake the U.S. G.S. says it was a magnitude 6.8. KFC founder Colonel Sanders' personal effects, such as his iconic black bow tie, are being put up for public auction tonight. People also be able to put in online bids for Harlem Sanders' former home and a dinner house he opened after he sold the chain originally known as Kentucky Fried Chicken.
“What's not likely part of the auction Sanders's secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, although there might be a personal 1964 planner with handwritten robes and spices at the KFC corporation determined was likely for a stuffing recipe.”
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