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The alien terrorist removal court in Washington, D.C. is secretive.

It has been around for 30 years, and it has never convened until today.

The Justice Department asked a federal judge to deport an Afghan woman in Texas on terrorism grounds. In a statement, acting attorney general Todd Blanchic uses in a zero-hageesada of links to a foiled ISIS plot to carry out a mass shooting on election day 2024. The 47-year-old son and son-in-law each pleaded guilty last year to taking part in the

plot. However, the government has not criminally charged Zada, a permanent U.S. resident, opting instead for the untested civil proceeding. Public Defender Matthew Farley accuses the government of violating due process.

Minnesota's state IT services have disclosed a wide-ranging cyber attack against critical

infrastructure across the state. Officials have not said who they think is behind it yet, but NPR's General Clawflin reports they are calling attention to a recent cyber security advisory from the government.

Between July 26 and 27, hackers targeted more than 30 water and wastewater systems across

Minnesota. Currently, there are no requests by local health officials to modify drinking water usage. But the investigation into the attacks is ongoing. The acting director of DHS's cyber security and infrastructure security agency Nick Anderson tells NPR that they are aware of the potential incidents in Minnesota and are helping

to provide support along with the EPA. While Anderson did not attribute the activity to any specific hacking group, he said in

a statement that organizations should review a federal advisory published just days ago.

But Iranian hackers targeting technology used by water utilities. Gentlemen, Glawflin and PR News. The war between the U.S. and Iran threatens to draw in more countries in the Middle East, Egypt might be the latest local authorities saying unidentified drone, causing explosion at a poor yesterday amplifying risk to the crucially vital Suez Canal trading route.

The French Interior Minister says the country is still fighting 12 major wildfires and

here's owner of beer's report's 275 people have been arrested on suspicion of starting places. Interior Minister Lohan Nunez said 3300 firefighters and 24 planes and helicopters are battling the biggest places near Bordeaux. The fires are now mostly contained, but not extinguished.

Numerous countries have contributed planes and firefighters. Munea most of Foway, a climatologist and expert on climate change, says solidarity is needed in the short and long term because the fires are only going to get worse. We need everybody to fight against climate change because it's a global enemy and we all have interests.

We need to be all together. And we hope that America is coming back. Eleanor Beardsley with that story, this is NPR News. Members of the Kpop Global Sensation BTS are apparently boycotting next year's Grammy Awards over the ceremony's new Asian pop category.

NPR's soon-going reports from Seoul that some artists have criticized the Grammy's genre categories as means for exclusion. BTS didn't specify the reason for their decision in a social media post, but they said they hope, quote, "music is heard and loved by what it is and not divided by region or language." Last month, the Grammy announced the new category for songs with, quote, "meaning for

use of one or more Asian languages." Some black artists have accused the Grammys of pigeonholing them into certain categories and keeping them from the general fields awards, record of the year, elbow map the year, and song of the year. Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said he respects the decision by DTS, but defended the new

category, saying it doesn't exclude any artists from general fields consideration, saying going in P.R. News, Seoul. The U.S. economy is coming off a sluggish period as inflation remains elevated.

Today, the Commerce Department reported that in the second quarter, April through June,

the economy expanded at a 1.5% pace. Gross domestic product growth in that period was lower than the 2.1% record in the first 3 months of the year. However, consumer spending increase at a 3.2% annual pace, consumer spending accounts for about 70% of this country's economic activity. This is NPR News.

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