"Live from MPR News, I'm trial Snyder, 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Abraham L...
aircraft carrier, or headed home to California.
“Then Piersquill Lawrence reports a ship is being relieved after nearly 9 months at sea."”
The USS George Washington, another aircraft carrier, has arrived in the Middle East to support the war with Iran, according to U.S. Central Command.
That means the Abraham Lincoln can finally head home after a record-breaking nine months
at sea. Aircraft carriers look huge, but space below decks for the crew is tight, especially after more than 270 days with no shore leave. NPR has reported that Iranian attacks disrupted the Navy's regular supply chains, which led to food shortages, poor sanitation, and mental health issues. Sent Comcommander Admiral Brad Cooper made a visit to the Lincoln on Saturday and acknowledged
the strains of such a long deployment. President Trump was asked about the issue and said the deployment was "not nearly long enough." Quill Lawrence and PR News. In Washington, a Democratic Congresswoman is asking a federal judge to block the John F. Kennedy Center from putting President Trump's name back on the building's facade and renaming
the grounds in Trump's honor.
“And Piersquill, the report's center, says it will seek to carry out that plan after Labor”
Day. Most of Joyce Batie's emergency injunction filed Thursday evening, argues the Kennedy Center Board's actions defy the courts' may ruling that only Congress can alter the center's name and that the center must memorialise President Kennedy alone. Norm Eisen is a member of Batie's legal team.
"Dandal Trump lost in court once. Now he and his supporters are trying to deface the Kennedy Center yet again." The Board added President Trump's name above John F. Kennedy's on the complexist front-end trance last December. It was removed in June.
The existing signage has remained hidden under top, ever since. The Kennedy Center did not respond to NPR's request for comment. Chloe Valtman and Piannews. "National debt now stands at a record $40 trillion a treasury department said announcement this week came just five months after the national debt hit $39 trillion.
Experts say the growing debt is already affecting Americans, Martha Gimble's with the Yale budget lab." One of the things that happens when the government is borrowing this much money is that it drives up interest rates, right? Investors think, "Hmm, this is weird, and so then they ask the federal government to pay
them more money in order to take on that debt." But then that means that the rest of us have to compete with Treasury to get people to lend us money. Interest rates rose Thursday and despite Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's move to calm the bond market with his announcement this week, a Treasury would double the size of a bond
“by-back program, a key benchmark for mortgage rates rose back above 4.6%.”
This is NPR. The Syrian Foreign Minister has made his first visit to Pakistan in nearly two decades. NPR's Diyah Hadid reports his fellow Israeli attacks on a Syrian air-based near the Turkish border. Pakistan's Foreign Office says the two sides will quote, "exchange views on regional and
international developments." The visit by the Syrian Foreign Minister, Assad Hassan Ashibani, spotlights the region's shifting security architecture. One where Pakistan has assumed regional military prominence.
The visit comes after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria's powerful neighbor, Turkey, signed
a defense agreement on August 7. That came after Pakistan signed and defense agreement with Saudi Arabia alone, and after Kuwait ratified a defense agreement with Pakistan. Analysts see the regional agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Pakistan as hardening their borders against Israel, which has struck neighbors of all three countries in recent
years, including Syria, Diyah Hadid, and NPR news. Federal agents have seized electronic devices from former California Democratic Congressmen Eric Smallwell, according to a person familiar with the matter who's spoke to NPR. They stopped Smallwell at the San Francisco Airport on Saturday, and have also searched his Washington D.C. home, as part of the investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.
Smallwell has denied the allegations he resigned his house seat in April. Most of the major financial markets in Asia had it toward declines for the week amid the ongoing sell-off and global bond markets.
Our mixed-in-friety trading Japan's benchmark Nikkei down 4/10 percent.
I'm Jail Snyder, this is NPR News. This week on the NPR politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking credit for a major drop in violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, all-down in big cities and small towns. We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the President claims it is on the NPR politics podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever
