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Multiple Russian missiles slammed into key before sunrise today, one of the deadliest nights
there in weeks.
“Nine are confirmed dead dozens more heard as Bill and Mark's reports after strikes hit five”
different neighborhoods. Kids, now, call it a brutal night for the city, with the barrage landing as President Trump appears to be backing away from a pledge to expand Ukraine's air defenses. Ukrainian officials say Russia fired more than two dozen ballistic missiles at the country. And that only one was intercepted a sign of how thin Ukraine's supply of patriot
instructors has become. President Zelensky, met manufacturer Lockheed Martin executives this week after Trump suggested Kiev could soon be permitted to build its own patriots. But on Friday, Trump struck a more cautious tone on that possibility, calling the hand over of that technology "a hard thing" to give away.
The NPR News, I'm Bill and Mark's. President Trump is unhappy about developments in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting Paul case that led to criminal charges against former Olympian David Hurn, being dropped yesterday. Hurn had been arrested last month and accused of vandalizing the pool. U.S. Attorney Janine Piro determined the problems originated in Shabby construction work
and had nothing to do with Hurn.
“President Trump posted on his social media platform he still believed the pool had been”
vandalized. The Trump administration has said it found 250,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls of four states. But there was still no details, NPR's Jude Jaffee Block has more. The letters, the Department of Homeland Security wrote to California, Nevada, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, were not as definitive as the public announcements the agency made. Instead, the letters said a preliminary review of the four states' public photo rolls found they may contain as many as 250,000 non-citizens combined. The letters gave the states a July 30 deadline to respond. And Piro reviewed three states' responses back.
The ask for details about how DHS did its calculations and expressed a commitment to ensuring eligible voters would not be removed from the rolls based on unreliable data. DHS did not respond to NPR's questions about its methodology. Jude Jaffee Block and Piro News A heat dome has moved into the southwest and central parts of the nation.
“The National Weather Service says extreme high temperatures this weekend will stretch from”
California to Arizona to as far north as Montana. National Weather Service Meteorologist Mark Shinards says there are concerns about wildfire risks.
Unfortunately, an extremely critical risk today across portions of Oregon and Washington.
And that critical risk extends into portions of Montana. Similar areas may be shifting a little bit east tomorrow and then Monday, kind of Idaho, Montana. So general Pacific Northwest towards Montana, they'll be an elevated fire threat the next few days.
Some cooling is expected by Monday. This is NPR News in Washington. Spain's interior ministry says most of the 50 to 60,000 North African migrants who crossed its border earlier this week have returned to Morocco. Some of those who swam to Spain sure were escorted out of the country by police.
And now Spain has installed a 500 meter containment barrier on the sea border between its North African territory of Suta and Morocco. The European Union has slated an emergency video conference for early next week to address the issue. The new women's pro baseball league plays it's inaugural game today and PR's Amy Held reports
all games will be played in Springfield, Illinois.
It's not women's first league of their own.
They're no crying in baseball. Immortalized in the 1992 film about women who really did pitch in when men left to fight World War II. The hit movie helped inspire ladies league baseball in 1997. Low interest played a part ending both leagues, but recently elite women's sports have
exploded in popularity and revenue. And now the women's pro baseball league is taking a crack at it with 60 players across four teams. Rocky Henley manages and coaches the New York Heights and says it's a natural fit for fans of major league baseball.
There's not much difference is just women playing and it's phenomenal first up is New York against the Los Angeles Queens, Amy Held and PR News. renowned climber, Nermal, Persia, and nine others died in a Thursday, avalanche on broad peak in Pakistan according to Persia's expedition company. He was known for climbing the world's 14 highest peaks.
I'm Louise Skivone and PR News. This week on Consider This, stay ahead of the latest news about AI. He unpacked the wild story of two models that hacked into another company, why some experts say it's a warning sign. And people with depression or anxiety are looking for help from chatbots, but that's not
what they were designed for. We look at the risks. This week on Consider This, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
