Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
Russia launched another deadly barrage of missiles a key before dawn today, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 30. NPR's Greg Myri reports the attack comes as President Trump appears to be backing away from an offer to strengthen Ukraine's air defenses.
“Russian ballistic missiles struck five separate parts of key as explosions rang out through”
the night. The attacks set off multiple fires and emergency teams rescued dozens of residents from burning and damaged department buildings. Russia has stepped up its air strikes in recent months to exploit Ukrainian shortages of air defenses against ballistic missiles.
Ukraine's president, the Vladimir Zelensky, met President Trump on Tuesday and said the US was giving Ukraine a license to make its own patriot air defense missiles. The Trump said Friday, quote, "We're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology." Greg Myri, NPR News, key.
Children who enter the US alone are losing access to federally funded immigration lawyers.
For the first time in more than 20 years, the government has not renewed contracts with
nonprofit groups that represent unaccompanied minors in court, putting thousands at risk
“of deportation, and PR's Kiera Eisner reports on why those legal groups can no longer”
take their cases. More than 26,000 kids could lose representation. The US decided decades ago that those children deserved protection here in the US by law, because children who cross the border alone are vulnerable to abuse and trafficking. The government has since paid a network of almost 100 legal organizations provide kids with
that legal help. The Trump administration stopped making payments to those legal organizations, and the contract with those providers did expire yesterday and hasn't been renewed. It's NPR's Kiera Eisner reporting. The FBI says water facilities across the US were victims of recent cyber attacks.
NPR's Gen. McLaughlin spoke to cyber security experts who say they've seen hackers widely targeting industrial devices. According to multiple cyber security experts interviewed by NPR, there's evidence that
“bad actors have been scanning the internet in recent weeks, looking for insecure industrial”
control systems.
Those devices are used in critical infrastructure, from water to power.
Michael Creen of cyber security firm Sonic Wall says his company has seen broad opportunistic attacks on this technology explode in recent months, highlighting the risk of connecting these devices to the internet. Another cyber security expert who requested anonymity to protect sources on sensitive security matters so the recent attacks were almost certainly linked to Iran.
The timing suggests they were likely motivated by U.S. strikes, General Gwafflin, and Pair News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. President Trump is criticizing the Justice Department's decision to drop the case involving damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and opposed on truth social, Trump said he
won 100% disagrees with U.S. attorney, Janine Piro's assessment, arguing the damage was the result of vandalism not just construction problems. He pointed to graffiti and damage in the surrounding area as evidence to support his claim. Charges were dropped against former Olympian David Harnon Friday. He was accused of vandalizing the pool.
Google has removed a tool that let users create AI-generated satellite images. NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, many experts, were concerned that it could be used to spread misinformation. The tool on Google Earth was removed just a day after it was unveiled. That unveiling constant outpry among journalists, open source investigators, and human
rights activists who used Googlers to verify events all over the world, many were horrified by the new tool, which allowed users to generate AI versions of real satellite images with the click of a button. NPR was easily able to generate imagery depicting a U.S. attack on Iran and the flooding of the capital building, neither have been happened in real life.
The company said it removed the new tool because people were sharing imagery that quote appears to violate our policies, it said it's working to develop stronger guardrails, Jeff Brumfield and PR news. I'm Winsor Johnston and PR news in Washington. For grateful dead fans, this summer is a moment of transition.
For the first time in years, there are no members of the dead touring the band's music,
but that doesn't mean the music's going to stop. This August goes around the country with NPR music to see where the long strange trip goes next. It's said that after death, a two episode series starting August 1st, find it on the NPR
