Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
Senator Richard Blumenthal says he wants to know details about new reports of President Trump's
travel out of Turkey after a NATO summit. The Washington Post reports that Trump boarded Air Force won, clandestinely left the plane, and due to security concerns traveled out of Turkish airspace on a military aircraft. Blumenthal wants to know what the safety calculations were for journalists and others who traveled on Air Force won.
“And that's why I'd like to know what precautions were taken to make sure that they”
were safe flying in an airplane that could have been a target of the Iranians with missiles or other devices that were capable of baiting the defensive mechanisms on the old Air Force won. Blumenthal spoke on CNN and NPR has not confirmed this independently. President Trump is clapping back over Iran's latest financial demands to reopen the
straight-of-war moves, and P.R.'s Franco ordonia says more. It was just a week ago that Trump was boasting that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the straight-of-war moves, but now both sides are making demands for compensation. Corey Shaki served in the George W. Bush White House. She said Iran is rightly assessed the President's desperation to end the war, and is trying
to hurt the President politically, likening it to the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that helped take down another former President. It looks to me like the Iranian regime wants to turn President Trump into Jimmy Carter.
“It wants to impose the kind of humiliation on President Trump that they imposed on President”
Carter. And she says they appear to be succeeding Franco ordonia's NPR news. Russia has released former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman arrested four years ago in Russia. The U.S. has argued he was wrongfully detained the 32-year-old Gilman plan to teach English in Moldova and was traveling when he fell ill on a train and was arrested facing disputed
charges. He kicked a police officer, Gilman is said to be quite ill. There's a special primary election in Alabama today for several congressional districts reconfigured mid-cycle this after the U.S. Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines but allowed for partisan jury-mandering and PR's Debbie Elliott
has more. Joseph Spragons of Hope Hall is a voter I spoke with his congressional district changed. And he's skeptical about the new map and thinks it will likely dilute the black vote in Alabama.
“"It has been crazy and it just seems so unfair because with the representation you did”
the Congress of District should be equal to the percentage of the people in that state with this. It throws everything out of whack." Candidates acknowledge this confusion and they fear this is going to be a low turnout affair.
And PR's Debbie Elliott reporting Wall Street the Dow off 93 the NASDAQ off 153 this is NPR. In South America rescue efforts continue in Columbia where yesterday's 7.4 magnitude quake has left at least 179 people dead multiple injuries and extensive damage in that country-specific coast region.
Emergency personnel say nearly 600 people are injured more than 2,700 missing. The military and volunteers are working to locate people possibly trapped under buildings using drones and search dogs. Tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in California, Google
co-founder Sergei Bryn has spent more than 100 million to fight it, and PR's Bobby Allen
has more. An November ballot measure known as Proposition 40 would impose a 1-time 5% tax on California residents worth more than a billion dollars. If past the tax would fund health care programs in the state, leading the fight against the tax is a coalition including Google co-founder Sergei Bryn, who has so far spent
a hundred and two million dollars to blanket the state with ads and commercials condemning the ballot measure. Bryn has compared the tax to the Soviet-style socialism his family fled in the late 1970s. He has moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe to avoid the tax. Bryn is also supporting two competing ballot measures in November that would effectively
avoid the billionaires tax. Bobby Allen and PR news Los Angeles July was the hottest month on record for the contiguous U.S. according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The most excessive heat was registered in the Mountain West Southwest northern plains
and southeast with the biggest problem being that evenings have not been cooling off enough. I'm Louise Skivone and PR News, Washington. 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today it's back at rates not seen in half a century.
These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. On the Sunday story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting sicker faster.
Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.
