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Lawmakers and families are raising concerns about poor conditions of where the U.S. has
Abraham Lincoln.
“The aircraft carrier has been at sea for a record 240 days and has played a major role”
in the Trump administration's Warren Iran independent military news outlets report that sailors have attempted to jump from the carrier and PR has not confirmed those accounts. The U.S. military said in a statement tonight that a sailor fell overboard earlier this month and was quickly rescued. Steve Walsh from Ember Station WHRO has more.
Being out at sea takes a toll on sailors, normally they would come into port after a month or so to resupply and let sailors spend time off the ship. The war with Iran has made that impossible shortly after the war began in late February around attacked the Navy's main hub in the region in Bahrain. This has meant the Navy has not been able to use his traditional supply hub in the region.
Instead, they've had to scramble to find ways to keep ships stock. Steve Walsh from WHRO reporting the White House says more than 40 countries have been helping importers evade tariffs.
“It's now vowing to crack down on mostly Chinese made goods.”
It says they're being falsely labeled as coming from another country, and PR's Emily Fang has more. White House traded visor Peter Navarra says the potential trade fraud could amount to
between 40 to $75 billion a year in lost customs revenue, transcript, mostly from China
through other countries to the US. For example, the Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, goes there because it's nearby. Trans shipment has long been an issue, but the US has not boosted tariff enforcement funding substantially.
The Department of Justice has a trade fraud division, but it has been understaffed for years. And customs and border protection, which does most of the initial screening when a shipment enters the US has been racing to hire and train imports specialists. Emily Fang and Pyrenees, Washington.
“A federal judge has dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard that claimed the”
university didn't do enough to protect students from anti-Semitism on campus. PR's Genaki Mehta reports. The lawsuit filed back in March claimed that after the war in Gaza began, Harvard had turned, quote, "A blind eye to anti-Semitism and discrimination against Jews and Israelis." Now, Judge Richard Stearns of the US District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the lawsuit.
Saying its claims of anti-Semitism were, quote, "two isolated" and, quote, "devoied of any factual allegations," unquote, "to prove that Harvard was out of compliance with civil rights laws." While this is a win for Harvard, which has been in a years-long battle with the Trump administration, Hermit Dylan, the assistant attorney general for civil rights of the US Department
of Justice, told NPR, quote, "We disagree with the ruling and are assessing next steps," quote, "adding that the Justice Department is actively investigating anti-Semitism nationwide. Genaki Mehta and Pyrenees." You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other today, and Alabama
followed hours later, and was the first time in nearly 16 years that three executions were carried out in the US on the same day, Florida executed two men on the same day in July and has put 31 prisoners to death since the start of 2025. Officials say Europe's fifth summer heat wave is lasting longer than the deadly heat wave of 2003 that killed tens of thousands of mostly elderly people, and Pyrenees' owner
Beardsley says people are exhausted and fearful for the future. Plava Maptine is walking her tiny dog rocky down a searing Paris street.
She says even 20 years ago, she would have never imagined these kinds of temperatures.
The thermometer is topping 40 degrees Celsius, that's 104 degrees Fahrenheit across France for the fifth time this summer. Severe drought conditions have sparked destructive wildfires. Europe is warming twice as fast as any other continent because of its proximity to the Arctic, where glaciers are melting and the land is now absorbing instead of reflecting
the heat and sun. Eleanor Beardsley and Pyrenees, Paris. An ancient bridge traditionally associated with Emperor Nero has reemerged from Rome's type or river as exceptionally low water levels exposed parts of the historic structure. Archaeologists say the bridge may actually have been built under his uncle, Emperor Caligula.
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