Live from NPR News in Washington, on Linde Canyon, fighting continues between...
Ukraine, with at least 20 people killed and dozens more injured and air attacks from both
sides.
“The fighting included the largest single-day Ukrainian attack on Russia to date.”
NPR's Charles Maynes and Moscow reports Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russians. Ukraine struck another warehouse of Russia's largest online retailer, a company called Wild Berry's, which is part of a wider campaign of interrupting business supply chains. Ukraine continues to strike oil facilities, which, by the way, is caused the return of gas shortages we saw earlier in the summer, and Ukraine is going after defense adjacent
industries. Factories that produce parts or products that might in some way contribute or help fund the Russian military, and all of this has come with a growing number of civilian casualties. Five years into the conflict that the two countries appear locked in a war of attrition, with no end and sight.
As annual joint military exercises between the US and South Korea begin this week, President
Trump says he has instructed the Pentagon to substantially reduce future war games. NPR's Anthony Cune and Seoul reports the move suggests a concession and a possible attempt to restart diplomacy with North Korea.
“President Trump said he was ordering the drills to be scaled back because of his good”
relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and North Korea's unthreatening attitude towards the US while Trump has been President. He said that the drills are costly and send a hostile signal to Pyongyang. He also noted that South Korea had declined his request for help in military operations against Iran.
South Korea's defense ministry said that 10 days of exercises with the US military aimed at defending South Korea against threats from the North began as planned. Monday is a substitute day off after a Saturday holiday in South Korea and there was no immediate comment from South Korea's government. Anthony Cune and P.R. News Seoul
New Lincoln firmed US Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to commit to remain independent from the White House and P.O.'s Jacqueline Diaz reports he was asked to make that pledge on NBC's make the press. After the scandal of Watergate was standard that the DOJ and the White House were kept completely separate, even though the president would nominate in attorney general.
The DOJ handled its own affairs and prosecuted cases without input from the president. Blanche refused to pledge an independent DOJ when asked by meet the press host, Kristen Walker. "No, I'm not going to pledge that and no attorney general should ever pledge that." Blanche's comments were made just days after a close confirmation vote.
He replaced Pan-Bondi, who Trump fired after Bondi was seen as having not moved fast enough prosecute his opponents, including former FBI director James Komi. Jacqueline Diaz and P.R. News launched previously served as President Trump's personal attorney. You're listening to NPR.
More than 120,000 homes and businesses in Hawaii are without power this morning due to the strong winds and heavy rains of what is now tropical storm, Lala. The storm's winds and flooding damage door destroyed dozens of homes as it passed near the islands, Bill Dorman with Hawaii Public Radio reports more than two feet of rain fell on the Hawaiian Islands.
All public schools in the state of Hawaii are closed today, so we're government offices,
“exceptions, or emergency workers, and those working crucial services, and they have a lot”
to do. Damage assessments are still coming in. The southern part of Hawaii Island was one of the hardest-hit areas with half a dozen local bridges destroyed or heavily damaged. Rock slides, mud slides, and flooding of saturated ground remain challenges across the islands, Hawaiian Electrics has tens of thousands
of residents around the state are still without power. Emergency crews are stored electricity to thousands by Sunday night, but for so many recovery is just beginning. For NPR News, I'm Bill Dorman in Honolulu. Indiana Public Safety officials say at least seven people have died during days of heavy
rain and historic flooding in the state. Officials in Indianapolis say flooding from the white river peaked early yesterday before it began to recede. The National Weather Service has cautioned more storms were expected to pass through central and southern Indiana, as well as other parts of the Midwest, bringing with them heavy rain,
flash flooding, and damaging winds. In Linde Canyon, NPR News in Washington
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