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President Trump apparently secretly switched to a different plane as he left a NATO summit
“in Turkey last month due to security concerns, contradicting public statements from the White”
House. Dan Lamoth was part of the Washington Post's reporting team that broke the story. "The President walked up the external steps to the old Air Force One, waived of the cameras, and then almost immediately, were told, walked off the plane on the opposite side of the aircraft, onto an elevated airport carrying truck that truck then lowers back to
ground level, drives over to a smaller plane, a C32, and gets back on that other smaller plane. Secretary Heggseff walks up the external stairs to that C32, making it look like he's the senior official board, and then in sequence those planes fly to Britain with the larger plane carrying the Air Force One call sign despite the President not being a board."
Dan Lamoth speaking there to NPR's all things considered, NPR hasn't independently verified the report. Political primaries are underway in six states today, including Wisconsin, where a democratic
“socialist is hoping to capture the democratic nomination for governor and follow in the footsteps”
of like-minded candidates who have won in other states. My insilver from Member Station WU WM has more. Francesca Hong's progressive platform has generated buzz among young voters and others, drawn to her message, like Timilhack. "There's the more-term-owned data centers, there's Medicaid for all universal child care.
She brings all the things that we need to make Wisconsin a great place again." Hong is a 37-year-old state lawmaker, bartender, and chef, and daughter of Korean immigrants. Some of her previous statements have sparked controversy, including about defunding the police and canceling Thanksgiving. She sat to distance herself from those remarks.
Wisconsin's outgoing Democratic governor has endorsed Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley. He says he's concerned about Hong's chances against the likely Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany. Grand-Pierre news, I'm Diane Silver, and Milwaukee.
In Colombia, search and rescue crews continue to look for survivors amid the rubble after yesterday's
powerful earthquake that left more than 181 people dead in thousands injured.
Many are trapped under the debris of damaged and destroyed buildings. Darrell Pop is a Canadian tourist who was celebrating his birthday in the country. "A such a surreal feeling, and I turned around and saw the cabinet smash and I heard people running through the hallways and doors slamming and saying, "Okay, maybe it's time to stop this video and get out of the buildings."
Chico-Near, the epicenter is one of Colombia's poorest regions and hard-to-access, stroke-o-rather, other Latin American countries in the U.S. are providing aid. You're listening to NPR news. Russia's highest court has barred the country's lone party, advocating for an end to the war in Ukraine, from standing in Parliamentary elections next month.
Emperors Charles Mayans reports that the decision comes despite growing signs of fatigue with the conflict among the Russian public. Russia's liberal "Yablika Party" had been the sole political block, calling for an end to the war in Ukraine, positioned that is already led to the arrest of several prominent members.
“"I think it's a disaster if you don't know what this is going to happen."”
The entire party is banned from the September vote, after Russia's Supreme Court found the "Yablika" had engaged in copyright infringement and received foreign funding among other charges. Several hundred Yablika supporters, most of them younger Russians, waited outside as court deliberations dragged on for some eight hours, Yablika leaders framed the court's
decision as a sign of Kremlin fear of the party's anti-war message, with polls showing a majority of Russians now want to negotiate it end to the war currently in its fifth year. Transmines, M.P.R. News, Moscow The Federal Reserve Bank of New York says Americans 'OMOR' and aren't paying their bills on time.
The bank says credit card debts or $21 billion in the second quarter to $1.2 trillion,
to shy of an all-time credit card debt level, set in the fourth quarter of last year, as gas and food prices rise. And the number of people who are more than 90 days past due on payments jumped to 12.8% The New York Fed says around 175 million people have credit cards in the U.S. around 60% of them carry revolving debt.
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