Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Runman.
Republicans released details of their plan mid-term convention in Dallas that scheduled
to take place in two weeks. Vice President Vance and President Trump will deliver prime time addresses. NPR White House correspondent Tamra Keith reports Republicans have decided, as a way to energize their base, their promoting President Trump's agenda before the November mid-term elections.
“And Trump and his team have come to believe that he is the key to the mid-term, which”
sounds counterintuitive, given that the President and his policies are deeply unpopular just 70 days out from the election. But their theory of the case is that the only way Republicans can win is if Republican voters are energized. And the single greatest force in energizing Trump voters is Trump himself.
NPR's Tamra Keith, speaking to the United Nations Security Council, a representative
for President Trump's Board of Peace, criticized Israel for strikes in Gaza, NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. The Board of Peace, high representative for Gaza, Nicolai Mladenoff, says Hamas has agreed to hand over its weapons, and he calls this an opportunity to dramatically improve life for Palestinians in Gaza.
What he says this will take time, and he questions, Israel's continued deadly strikes in Gaza.
“Will another strike on the munitions depot stop Hamas from rhyming or tightening its grip”
on Gaza? It will not. It only delays the demilitarization. Mladenoff is also urging Israel to change its policies to let more supplies into Gaza in order to build needed housing ahead of winter and restore water services.
And Michelle Kellerman and PR News, Washington. The nation's top health official is urging people to get vaccines after two people died in Pennsylvania this week after contracting the measles. From member station WUSF, Kerry Sheridan reports health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is raising questions about those cases.
Kennedy stopped in Tampa to talk about making school lunch food healthier.
In a press conference, he was asked about the first reported deadly measles cases in the
U.S. this year in Pennsylvania.
“"All right, if I says that people should get the measles vaccination, there are certain communities”
that certain religious communities that don't want to do that, and we want to take care of those kids as well." Few details have emerged about the people who died in Lancaster County. Kennedy accused the Democratic Governor, Josh Shapiro, of refusing to share information with federal health authorities.
For NPR News, I'm Kerry Sheridan in Tampa. Flash flooding along the border between China and Nepal is left in estimated 160 people dead, hundreds of others are missing experts say in avalanche from a glacier is the likely cause of the flooding. This is NPR.
Indonesia has deployed dozens of firefighting aircraft as choking haze from forest and petal and fire spreads across Southeast Asia. More than 50 aircraft and cloud-seeding planes are now battling blazes across Sumatra and Borneo, where hundreds of thousands of acres have burned. The dense smoke has drifted into neighboring Malaysia and Brunei, forcing nearly 600 Malaysian
schools to close. President Raboos will be on the visited hard-hit provinces on Monday, ordering direct monitoring and deploying 1,000 military and police officers to reinforce firefighting efforts. Meanwhile, authorities have charged over 70 individuals for illegal land burning.
For NPR News, I'm Nina Rao in Jakarta. After Tim Curry, who had a more than 50-year career portraying a gallery of often loony villains on stage and on screen is died in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Two of Curry's best-known roles were Dr. Frankenferter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Pictureshow and the smug concierge in the home alone to movie, Lost in New York.
Curry said he enjoyed playing outrageous characters because he said they were more interesting. After a stroke in 2012, he moved mostly into voice acting. Triple-AX has gasoline prices moved up fractionally Monday to an average of $4.10 a gallon. Gasoline is now 92 cents a gallon more expensive than it was a year ago. This is NPR.
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