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Lawmakers and families of US service members are highlighting poor living conditions on board
“the long-deployed carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been at sea continuously for more”
than 250 days. And Parrishandle is just a report that will soon be replaced by another ship. Arizona Senator Rubin Gaego, a Democrat and Marine veteran, told ABC on Sunday the reports of poor conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, will hurt morale and cause people to leave the Navy.
Right now, the aircraft carrier's going to go under a lot of maintenance. You're going to have problems with retention once people get back and family start meeting again. They're going to say, "Do I want to stay in the Navy?" You're going to have some of the most experienced men and women.
They're going to take a lot of their technical skills and walk away. There are reports of plumbing problems, food shortages, and declining mental health among crew members on the carrier, which has been deployed to sea for more than eight months. Defense Secretary Pete Hanksf has also pushed back on reports of poor conditions.
“Another carrier, the USS George Washington, is headed toward the Middle East to replace”
the ship. Shondalese, Duster, and PR news. US Central Command Admiral Brad Cooper visited the Abraham Lincoln on Saturday and acknowledged the mental health challenges on the ship, but he says there are fewer cases compared to others.
Food waters in Indiana are receding after his historic rainfall in parts of the state over the last week, but forecasts say extreme heat may bring more difficult weather. Local disaster management officials say at least seven people have died including a four-year-old boy and a teenage football star from Delaware County. In Indianapolis, not far from the White River, furniture maker Frank Gounder spent his 37th birthday
assessing the damage to his business. I lost everything I make in refurbished furniture, mostly wood, there was no way to keep everything out of the water. Flood waters reached about two feet deep in some places including in his workshop. The death toll in eastern Indonesia after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake is now at least 53
Michael Sullivan reports. The US Geological Survey reports the epicenter of the quake was off the northern coast of the island of Flores in the east of the country at a depth of roughly six miles. A tsunami warning was issued then cancelled roughly two and a half hours later, but authorities say there have been hundreds of aftershocks and more than 5,000 people have been evacuated
from their homes. It's unclear how many more remained buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Indonesia is an archipelago of some 17,000 islands and more than 280 million people that sits
along the seismically active rig of fire where volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are fairly frequent. For NPR news, a Michael Sullivan in Shanghai, Thailand. You're listening to NPR from New York City. Actress Hayden Paneteer, who starred in Heroes and Nashville, has died just days before her 37th
birthday. Paneteer's death was confirmed by a statement sent to NPR by her publicist on behalf of Paneteer's father, who wrote, "It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy
to all who knew her and to the millions who watched her on screen. We ask for privacy as our family takes time to process this unimaginable loss." California is prepared to fund gender affirming care for miners after the Trump administration announced plans to end the coverage for member station KALW Desmond Braking reports. California State Law requires providers to offer a gender affirming care.
The state budget earmarked 26 million dollars to pay providers for trans healthcare impacted
by federal cuts this year. Danny Sassena, the director of the state's LGBTQ Health and Human Services Network, says "The one-time funding offers limited relief to families with trans children who rely on public insurance." We know that there's more tax coming, so we are identifying where the gaps in coverage
may be and preparing additional budget asks. Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program will no longer cover gender affirming treatments for miners after October 13th. 27 states currently ban the treatments for youth. For NPR News, I'm Desmond Braking in San Francisco.
Police in the Spanish on Klave of Say You to have arrested nearly 300 migrants from Morocco
following a second mass migrant.
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