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USS Abraham Lincoln are now on their way home.
“The military says another ship is in the region to provide relief.”
Family members report deteriorating conditions, including suicide attempts and PR's Katie A-Rittle reports. The military has not confirmed reports of suicide and defense secretary Pete Hegseth says the media has exaggerated the hardships the crew is enduring, but experts who have worked on these kinds of missions say nine months at sea, even in the best of conditions is
difficult. Dr. Philip Hunt was for years in Navy Physician, he says the treatment of these sailors and Marines is unacceptable. To do that to people who have dedicated, they put their lives on the line, it took an oaths.
We all took the same oaths.
It's just almost brings you to tears. The return journey home for the aircraft carrier will take a month, Katie A-Rittle and PR News. The federal debt topped $40 trillion yesterday as the government continues to rapidly pile up debt and spending outstrips revenue by more than $2 trillion a year, Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessant blamed the Biden administration.
“And remember, we did not get here at a day that we were left with a mess.”
The Biden administration had the highest deficit to GDP in history when we weren't at war or weren't in a recession. For 2025, we brought it down by more than a percent. The debt has exploded over several presidential administrations. The federal government borrowed heavily when the pandemic began during President Trump's
first term and continued into the Biden years to stabilize the economy and support
a recovery. More spending was approved last year when Trump signed a massive spending in tax cut bill. A woman was charged today with plotting to plant a bomb at the New York State Capitol building, Samuel King, with the New York Public News Network reports court documents
alleged she pledged allegiance to his Islamic State. Federal law enforcement agents say Jessica Bowie had a gun and a dummy explosive device with her Wednesday as she met with informants who she thought were helping her carry out her
“plan to destroy as much of the Capitol as possible, and quote, "kill all the senators."”
First assisted U.S. attorney John Sarkone says he arrested serve as a warning to other would-be terrorists. "We are vigilant, we are prepared, and just as we stop this defendant, we will continue to disrupt plots and protect the American people." The rest comes just weeks before the anniversary of the September 11th of the tax.
The FBI says they've stopped more than 400 individuals from carrying out alleged attacks here at home and abroad. For MPR News, I'm Samuel King in Albany. The World Health Organization says Congo will receive 70,000 doses of the Urvabo vaccine. It's licensed for Ebola virus, but not for the Boondibujo virus, which is responsible
for the current outbreak. The WHO says early-dannies suggest it may provide some protection. The outbreak is killed more than 2400 people out of more than 52,000 cases. It's NPR. Community still recovering from last weekend's hurricane in Hawaii could get hit again
in the coming days. Now forecasters are warning another system could dump up to 15 inches of rain across the big island. Residents of a real-grand community in South Texas are suing the federal government over border wall construction, landowners in San Ignacio say contractors entered private property
without permission. Texas Public Radio is a Tim Gutierrez reports. Chanting no border wall about 60 protesters marched outside the federal courthouse in Loretto. Many came from San Ignacio, where landowners are fighting border wall construction, they
say, is crossing onto private land. Bishop Cortez is with the Rio Grande International Study Center. This is a very small historic community that has this unique ability to push back against the federal government. Residents along the Rio Grande from Loretto Westward Big Ben National Park have formed
the no border wall coalition to oppose new construction. The coalition says San Ignacio landowners have temporarily stopped work on disputed property asking a federal judge to halt construction while the case moves forward. I'm Tim Gutierrez, in San Antonio. A semi truck sent a truckload of squids spilling into a road island roadway leaving a stench
as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. The trailer fully loaded with squid overturned on its side while the truck was making a turn and blocked all lanes on a one road. Local authorities are calling it the squid apocalypse of 26. They're listening to NPR news from Washington.
