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Lawmakers are calling on the Pentagon to investigate claims of poor conditions aboard
the USS Abraham Lincoln.
“Sailors and their families have reported supply shortages, contaminated water, and low morale.”
Steve Walsh of Member Station, WHRO reports the carrier has spent more than eight months at sea without a port call. After leaving San Diego in November, USS Lincoln had one brief port visit. Since then, it has been positioned in the Middle East supporting the war effort and Iran.
That is a grueling pace for a carrier with more than 5,000 sailors on board. Lawmakers are now demanding answers about the conditions on the Lincoln MSNow and others have been reporting that sailors have attempted to jump from the carrier, which NPR has not been able to independently confirm. Senator Richard Blumenthal and other Democrats are demanding that the Pentagon investigate
shortages of food, toilets, not working in lack of mental health care on board the shift. Steve Walsh of Member Station, WHRO reporting defense secretary Pete Higgseth is calling the claims completely misrepresented. Ukrainian drones have knocked out power in Crimea's largest city, and PR's Greg Myri reports
Russia sees the territory 12 years ago. Crimea is usually packed with families enjoying beach vacations in summer. But Ukraine's drone strikes, like the latest one in Sevastopol, are causing frequent blackouts, cuts in cell phone service, and days with no running water.
Crimea was the first place Russia seized when it initially invaded Ukraine in 2014.
But Ukraine is now challenging Russia's hold on the Black Sea peninsula, with almost daily air strikes from afar. Many of Crimea's basic supplies are imported from Russia by ship. Ukraine is also attacking these Russian vessels, saying it is hit more than 200 in the past month.
Greg Myri, NPR News, Keev. The attorneys for the man charged in the shooting death of a health-care executive will appear in federal court in Manhattan today, and PR's Brian Man reports Luigi Magioni could enter a guilty plea. Federal prosecutors in Manjoni's defense team requested today's session before Judge
Margaret Garnat, the unexpected federal hearing comes less than a month before Manjoni
is set to face a state murder trial, Gary Galperon, a former county prosecutor in New
York City, says the timing of today's hearing suggests a plea deal is in the works. It would be well-founded speculations that they may be trying to enter a guilty plea. Manjoni's case has drawn huge media in public attention, Manhattan Prosecutor Joel Sideman sent a letter to a state judge last month warning that a federal plea deal could disrupt the state's trial.
That's because New York has strict double jeopardy laws preventing defendants like Manjoni from being tried twice on similar charges, Brian Man and PR News, New York. This is NPR News. The U.S. Park police are investigating vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC.
It was poured into its fountain, filling it with bubbles, writing green graffiti was also spray painted across parts of it. The interior department called the damage and utter disgrace, authorities have not announced any arrests. Wildfires in Nevada have forced about 13,000 people to evacuate, together the bug and stallion
fires have burned more than 122,000 acres, Caleb Raidl from the investigation, K.U.N.R. reports. Fire's are burning north of Reno near the California state line. Kelsey Coosmic wasn't home when the fire reached her property. She returned Wednesday and described the scene at a community meeting.
“"Honestly, kind of apocalyptic, scary, really, it was, yeah, apocalyptic, it was just everything”
is charred." Firefighters are still working to contain the blazes, but the weather can make that harder in the coming days, thunderstorms are expected through Friday. It may bring some helpful rain and higher humidity. It can also bring lightning and strong winds.
Then hotter and drier conditions are expected this weekend. That could be more active fire behavior. For NPR News, I'm Caleb Raidl in Reno. Extreme heat is feeling wildfires and forcing evacuations across parts of Europe. Britain recorded its hottest day of the year with temperatures reaching 100 degrees in
London on Thursday. More than 500 people have been evacuated because of a wildfire in southwestern France. This is NPR News in Washington. This week on Consider this, stories about the Trump administration. Here how a former Olympian was targeted by the Justice Department over damage to the reflecting
bull.
“Plus, inside Trump's secret decoy flight out of Turkey that left press and cabinet officials”
on Air Force 1 without him. Thanks for those stories and more of the week's biggest news.
