Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Funeral events are being held for the late senator Lindsey Graham.
At Washington National Cathedral today, politicians, dignitaries, and family members gathered
“to remember the Republican who died earlier this month at the age of '71.”
President Trump utilized Graham, he remembered a time when the late senator was a vocal critic before he became one of his strongest allies. Back in 2016, Lindsey said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming the next president of the United States. So naturally, I did something that I shouldn't have done.
I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day as I made a speech, a very important speech, and I remember the number 202-228-092, if anybody wants to give it a shot."
Trump showed that Senator Graham were as he called him Lindsey, got the last laugh because
the senator didn't stop calling him for the next 10 years. Before Lindsey Graham's funeral president Trump met with some of the visiting dignitaries, including Ukraine's president and Israel's prime minister, and Piers Michele Kellerman reports on the high stakes diplomacy.
“Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky says he had a good meeting with President Trump and”
a social media post he writes that he discussed several ideas with them, including giving Ukraine licenses to produce patriot missile interceptors. And Zelensky says they discuss the need to reinvigorate diplomacy. President Trump came to office saying he could resolve that war on day one. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out of his meeting saying it was one of the
best conversations he's had with President Trump. It comes amid tensions over the war in Iran, which Trump initially promised Americans would be over quickly. The White House does not share any details from the meetings. Michele Kellerman and PR news, the State Department.
Nearly three dozen major wildfires are now bringing across Central and Eastern Oregon cattle country and Piers Kirk Sigler has to tail.
“Visibility is less than a mile in some places in Eastern Oregon as dense hazardous wildfire”
smoke is in golfed valleys. Emergency crews used a school bus to evacuate people like Katherine 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 feel 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 Rangeland and Sagebrush. Researchers 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. This is NPR News. Well, this is already a record year for Cycle of Spora, the diarrhea causing parasite expected to sick in thousands more people, and Piers, you can a Gucci reports the responses come in the aftermath of deep cuts to U.S. public health.
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 Sorcerer is regulatory affairs director for the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
Delays lack of clarity, just time-to-solving problems are all symptoms of this broader issue that, in 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, eating a Gucci and PR news. eBay is agreed to pay roughly $50 million to a Massachusetts couple who sued after they
were harassed by former eBay employees and retaliation for their newsletter coverage of the e-commerce company. David and Ina Stider founders of e-commerce bytes said people attempted to silence them through cyber stalking and bizarre delivery such as live insects and a funeral reef. eBay says in a statement, the harassment and the response from its former executives was
wrong and reprehensible and is part of the settlement eBay also agrees to donate $6 million to non-profit organizations. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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