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A U.S. official says CIA chief John Radcliffe's trip to Moscow this week was to warn Russia
against attacking any NATO allies.
“Radcliffe met with his Russian counterparts.”
He 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.
President Trump downplayed the trip today, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attack NATO territory. President Trump signed an executive order today directing the federal government to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America, I've been escalating trade war with Canada. It's just the latest time he's ordered the government to rename a body of water after he
moved to recognize the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on his first day in office. "So if you think about it, we have a Gulf, and we have a lake, now all we need is a notion. So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific."
Canada announced it will impose retaliatory tariffs on nearly $20 billion worth of U.S. goods
“after trade talks between the two countries broke down earlier this month.”
Those tariffs were a response to the Trump administration announcing 50% tariffs on goods from Canada. A jury has begun deliberating in the murder trial of Lindsey Clancy. She's accused of strangling her three young children in 2023 in a case that's drawn attention to postpartum mental health.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty. Her lawyers argue she was experiencing postpartum psychosis, prosecutors say Clancy planned the killings and understood her actions were wrong. Meta's landmark settlement with state attorney general over claims its products are addictive and harmful to kids as among the largest ever struck by a U.S. company and PR's Shannon
Bond reports it's the latest sign that long-running public frustration with tech companies is turning into concrete changes for the industry. "2026 has already brought a wave of setbacks for social media giants. Meta lost two high-profile cases in state courts over claims its products including Instagram harmed young users.
It and rivals including YouTube and TikTok have settled similar lawsuits and thousands more are still pending, and pressure is growing from regulators and lawmakers around the world. Dozens of U.S. states are introducing or enacting restrictions on kids social media use, while countries including Australia, Britain and Indonesia are banning children from social media altogether.
Some of those bands and state laws are being challenged on free-speech grounds, Shannon Bond and PR news." U.S. officials report about 90 U.S. citizens remain unaccounted for after catastrophic flash floods hit a border area of China and Nepal killing hundreds of people, more than 1,000 are still missing.
Many of the missing were on a pilgrimage to mount Kylash in Tibet, a sacred site for Hindus and Buddhists. Textox led Wall Street to rise today, and this is NPR News. An ice officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis has been released from a Texas jail after a judge refused to order
his return to Minnesota. Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime. Minnesota officials believe Castro could flee to Mexico. Japan's acclaimed avant-garde artist, Ayoy Kusoma has died at age 97, and PR's Anthony Cune reports she was known as the Queen of Polkadot.
Kusoma's foundation said in a statement that she died at Atokyo Hospital on August 14, and kept painting until her final days. The Kyoto News Agency reports she died of multiple Oregon failure. Since childhood, Kusoma experienced hallucinations, she saw Polkadot's flowers and pumpkins which she made sense of by painting them.
She created installations where visitors were lost and seemingly endless expanses of shimmering lights, angelating tubes, and swirling dots. She moved to New York in the 1950s and moved in the same artistic circles as Andy Warhol and Georgia O'Keefe. She returned to Japan in the 1970s and chose to live at a psychiatric hospital while
painting it in nearby studio. Anthony Cune and PR News sold. St. Fenorias, the Orthodox Christian painter and saint of lost things, is honored each August 27 with prayers and traditional orange-flavored cake known as the revealer. Fenorias is believed to help people facing loss, hardship, and uncertainty.
From any believers, the holiday represents hope, faith, gratitude, and moments of spiritual revelation. This is NPR News from Washington. Fall is right around the corner. That means the midterms.
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