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The federal government's debt hit a new high today, $40 trillion, and PR Scott Horsey
“reports just covering the interest payments on that debt is now the government's second”
largest expense. The government is spending more than a trillion dollars just paying interest on the death this year. That's more than it spends on defense or Medicare and trails only social security. The federal debt has doubled since 2017, and it's expected to grow by more than $2 trillion
this year alone. My amiginas, who heads the committee for a responsible federal budget, says that's remarkable at a time of low unemployment and no pressing government crisis. We used to borrow during bad times, but now we borrow during bad times and good times. People who lend money to the government are demanding higher interest rates, which is also
driving up the cost of private borrowers for things like mortgages, Scott Horsey and PR News. Washington.
President Trump says the U.S. and Canada reached a last minute deal to delay 50 percent
“U.S. tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products.”
The tariffs will be non-existent for our farmers. Our farmers were paying tremendous tariffs in Canada, and those tariffs aren't going to be totally destroyed down to zero. The sanctions were due to take effect this morning. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says there was significant progress in negotiations.
Israel's military has announced its first criminal investigations into troop conduct in the Gaza War. The focus is on the killings of a five-year-old, her family trapped in a vehicle and a 15 Palestinian paramedics. The military says it will not investigate three other attacks that killed aid workers.
The military's statement does not mention many other high-profile killings that Israel had pledged to investigate during the war, including a hospital strike that killed five journalists. Israel's Airstrikes continued to pound Gaza with a devastating hit on the police headquarters today, during a leadership meeting. And PR's Honest Baba reports a new Israeli wave of violence.
It's left at least 17 Palestinians dead and more than 45 injured over the past 48 hours. At least nine people were killed when an Israeli missile struck the Gaza police hits quarters today. Local officials say the building was targeted while police leadership gathered to inaugurate the newly appointed chief of police.
The Ministry of Interior says that it included seven high-ranking officers among them fat in a Sahar, director of the Women's Police in Gaza, as well as a 13-year-old girl who was playing in a park next to the site.
A Sahar's husband says she was a mother of eight and had never harmed anyone.
She was only a civil police officer. These rainy military says it targeted a Hamas Commander who was planning attacks against Israeli troops without providing any evidence. And a mobile employee was guilty. U.S. stocks rose today after the Treasury Department made a move to ease pressure on
the bond market. This is NPR News from Washington. A mysterious political firm admitted to fabricating multiple election polls this month. The surveys claimed to evaluate support in the Democratic Party for Governor and Wisconsin, the Governor Torio Racer Nevada, and Mayoral Racer Los Angeles.
The California poll was shared by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass's campaign on social media and covered by local news outlets. The judge who oversaw the conviction of a black teenager and the fatal stabbing of a white teenager has been removed from further proceedings in the case. Caroline Love from member station KERA and Dallas reports it comes as attorneys for Camaro
Anthony appeal his conviction. Carmelow Anthony, now 19, was convicted for the 2025 stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcap at a high-school track meet near Dallas, Texas. The case received national attention over the race of the two teens. Judge John Roach Jr. oversaw the trial and did a media interview shortly after the verdict.
Lee Marriott from Anthony's defense team says the interview violated judicial conduct roles.
“The best thing for justice to get him out of the place and get a neutral judge in.”
A hearing on a separate motion for a new trial is scheduled for Thursday. For MPR News, I'm Caroline Love and McKinney. The mission to save NASA's sinking telescope has been called off, NASA paid a catalyst
space technology's $30 million to try to lift the aging swift observatory to hire orbit.
The startup says it will not attempt to capture it because of problems with controlling the rescue craft. The telescope will plunge through the atmosphere later this year intense solar activity caused swift to lose altitude faster than expected. This is NPR.
This is Terry Gross. I just interviewed Jason Seagull about playing a therapist on a series shrinking his own therapy and his Muppets movie. I love how you call me the human star of the Muppets. It gives me such a joke.
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