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appeared in the Washington Post Monday, speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews following
a trip to Ohio.
“Trump said he was following the secret services recommendation when he used a separate”
plane to leave Turkey following last month's NATO summit in Pierce, Tamara Keith. He had flown there on the new Cotari Air Force One, which is luxurious, but was rushed into service and doesn't have all the security features of the older purpose-built Air Force ones. Mid-trip hostilities with Iran flared back up, that raised the threat level.
So just before he was supposed to leave, Trump announced he was sending the new Air Force One ahead, so U.S. troops at a base in the UK could admire it. President Trump boarded the old Air Force One, waived from the top of the stairs as usual. The Washington Post reports he was then smuggled off the plane in a catering truck. "The Trump on a separate plane Air Force One was essentially a decoy leaving White House
staff and reporters at risk.
“Progressives have not shunned other wind in Tuesdays, primaries, and Minnesota,”
voters gave Lieutenant Governor Peggy flan again the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin, the Democratic primary for Governor between a progressive and a moderate remains too close to call. Federal dollars from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program will soon expire for a gender-affirming care for young people.
Empirously, Nassim and stuff and reports on a new rule set to take effect in October." The rule was proposed in December, among other actions, the Trump administration announced to restrict care for transgender youth. Gender-affirming care for young people is illegal in 27 states. This rule would apply to families in the states where the care is allowed.
States could use their own dollars to pay for care like puberty blockers and sex hormones
“for young people enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP, but those states would not receive federal”
reimbursement for those costs.
According to the final rule, the health agency received 11,000 comments and more than 90 percent
were opposed to the rule, sling to Simmons, Duffin, and Piano's sales of existing homes fell last month, extending a year's long slump in PR Scott Horsley reports. The National Association of Realtors says sales of existing homes fell by 1.7 percent last month, homes sales were already slumping and rising mortgage rates are not making home buying any easier. Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year home loan is now close to 6.7 percent.
Meanwhile, home prices continue to climb, averaging just over $434,000 last month. The parent company, a president, Trump's truth-social platform says it lost $238 million in the most recent quarter. The company's expansion into cryptocurrency and online gaming has not paned out, so the business plans to refocus on its social media roots. This is NPR News. University of Michigan says it will do away with grades for freshman next
fall and, instead, for semester classes, will be passed fail. MPR's Alyssa Nedwarney reports on the effort to e-students mental health struggles on campus. The new pilot policy hopes to acclimate new students to the demands of college, allow exploration into different classes and gets students not to worry about how a low grade freshman year might have long-term consequences. Other colleges like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT have similar grading
policies for freshman. How college is grade students varies greatly? Read college and Oregon records letter grades, but they're only shared with students upon request. At Harvard, faculty voted to give out fewer grades to try and battle what they say is high grade inflation. All of this comes at a time that stress on campus remains quite high. In a 2024 survey about 70 percent of college students reported struggling with mental health.
Alyssa Nedwarney and Piano's federal judge in Boston is agreed to halt President Trump's executive order that seeks to limit voting by mail. The judge who's day-sighted with the voting rights groups granting a preliminary injunction that vars the postal service from taking any action to implement the order ahead of November's mid-term elections. The postal service is a financial supporter of MPR. Financial markets in Asia mostly hiring when state trading
South Korea's benchmark leading the way up three and a half percent on rebounding chip makers oil prices advancing brain crew the international standard is trading above $89 a barrel. I'm Jail Snyder, NPR News. French fries, tater tots, Colombian ahyako,
potatoes are beloved everywhere and yet they're always kind of denigrated. There's a long history
of racializing potatoes. Have a potato became an insult around the world. Listen to NPR's code switch podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
