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NPR has learned that the purpose of CIA achieved John Racklip's visit to the Russian capital

this week was to warn the government against attacking NATO allies.

A U.S. official tells NPR's tomb home in that Racklip also said that the U.S. had conclusive evidence that Russia was providing intelligence to Iran. Russia has been sending drones into NATO countries with one NATO official not authorized to speak publicly telling NPR. It appears Russia is testing air defenses.

Speaking of the White House today, President Trump downplayed the trip saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attack NATO territory. Rackl-Malatitch, the butcher of Bosnia has died at the age of 84 while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the 1995 Shreber of the United States.

General Rackl-Malatitch was the number one war criminal of the Bosnian War.

He was responsible for the murder of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica in 1995. It was a mass execution.

The men and boys were tied up, blindfolded, and marched to the edge of open pits.

Where they were shot. Bone by bone, their bodies were eventually exhumed and identified. Srebrenica was a Muslim on-clave, in territory served nationalists, claimed as their own. When his army entered the town, Mlattitch announced, "We present this city to the Serbian people as a gift."

In 2011, he was captured. He died at 84. Tom Jelton for NPR News

President Trump is escalating his tariff war with Canada and both countries are

raising tariffs on each other, but Trump's latest move is renaming Lake Ontario, which sits between New York and Canada to Lake America. More from NPR's Deepa Shiveron. Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to rename the smallest of the Great Lakes.

He made a similar move last year, renaming the Gulf of Mexico.

"We have a Gulf, and we have a lake, now all we need is a notion." The change comes after trade talks broke down and Trump announced that he would impose a 50% tariff on some Canadian goods, escalating a trade war with the US's long-time ally. Canada issued counter tariffs in response. Tariffs are likely to raise the cost of goods for Americans that are already high due

to the war with Iran, and it's becoming an issue for some Republicans in tight election fights this year. Deepa Shiveron and Piorneus. The jury's now deliberating whether Massachusetts Defendant Lindsey Klancy should be how criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023 or sent to a state

mental health facility. It's NPR News. The legendary voice actor Peter Collin has died. His agent confirmed Collin passed away yesterday at his Los Angeles home. Peter Collin had more than 200 acting credits at Span at decades long career.

Americans came to know him as the pessimistically lovable E.R. and Winnie the Pooh. "Just wanted to thank you, Piglet, for the flowers, awful nice of yet a think of grey old me." Also well known as the Transformers Optimist Prime, which he described as a strong with gentle hero, Peter Collin was 85 years old.

In Nevada, firefighters are close to containing a wildfire that sprints structures and force thousands of people to flee their homes in rainout. NPR's Corxagular Reports Authority's believe the fire was caused by people, which fits a pattern. Federal data show that more than three quarters of all wildfires in the U.S. are human

caused, be it arson or just negligence, such as a down power line or a spark from a vehicle. Kelly Payle is a researcher at Headwater's Economics. She says greater public awareness about the risks has helped. You know, smoky bearer is one of the most widely recognized marketing creatures out there has been championed for 80 years, and yet we still do see a lot of human ignition.

So awareness is only one piece of the puzzle. Human-caused wildfires tend to be more destructive than natural blazes. Payle says communities can zone so that infrastructure is clear of hazardous fuels and homes and businesses should be built with wildfire resistant materials. Kirk Sigler and PR News.

Unlike me saying NPR News in Washington, this season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway, we've smuggled products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent, Antarctica. That's right. Big for me.

Mr. Penguins, big for me. That's another sound of Antarctica. That's a reporter trying to interview a penguin. We'll explain on Planet Money Summer School, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your

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