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President Trump Thursday signed an executive order that he said will rename "Lake on
“Terrio" as "Lake America" in the United States.”
The President had floated the idea of a name change as "Trade negotiations" with Canada broke down last week, and the U.S. and Canada are now imposing tariffs on products that cross the border. Trump said he signed the order because he claims Canada is an unreliable trading partner. We deal with a lot of people, and often times they'll ask me, "Who's the worst to deal
with untraded?" And I said, "That's easy." Canada. They are the worst to trade, and they feel entitled, and just we can't have that. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Canadian officials are rejecting the call to
rename "Lake on Terrio" noting that the name goes back, at least 400 years, predating
the U.S. declaration of independence and the Canadian Confederation. The Tars Prime Minister made a visit to a ROM Thursday following stops there this week
“by officials from Pakistan and Oman, mediators who are trying to restart the peace talks”
with Washington after economic pressure to isolate Iran began. NPR's "Iobrachana" reports. Father says its Prime Minister, Chef Muhammad al-Fani, met with Iran's President and its lead negotiator to discuss the necessity of resuming the diplomatic track and avoiding further escalation.
And just before the visit to Iran, al-Fani spoke with Gulf Arab counterparts, "Cautory analyst Rashid and Mohanadi" explains, "I would read that as coordination and consolidation of positions before conducting the visit." He says that includes pressuring Iran to come back to the negotiating table and reopening the state of her moves.
Data shared with NPR by research firm ICIS shows Iran's closure of the state slashed Qatar's gas exports, for more than 500 shipments between March and August of last year to just 18 this year.
“During the war, Iranian missiles damaged a sprawling U.S. air basin Qatar and the country's”
natural gas refinery. "Iobrachana and Pair News." NPR's "Iobrachana" reports that President Trump is offering assurances that Rashid will not wage an occupation against a NATO country. President Trump was asked if President Putin might be considering additional military action
in Europe. "CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow on Tuesday, igniting speculation about the reason for his visit." The CIA has declined to comment. However, a U.S. official said Ratcliffe warned Rashid against attacking NATO countries.
The CIA chief also told the Russians, "The U.S. has concluded evidence Rashid is providing intelligence to Iran. U.S. official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Greg Myri, MPR News, Washington." And from Washington, this is NPR.
Life on the Moon seems unlikely with harsh conditions like extreme temperatures in solar radiation, but researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland say new evidence shows microbes from Earth can survive on the Moon. University of Maryland researchers studied environments on the Moon and tried to see if Earth-born microbes would be able to handle the conditions.
The answer was yes if the bacteria and fungi were in pockets of shadow that protected them from lethal radiation. Now with NASA plans underway to get humans back on the Moon by 2028, Stefano Bertone, a scientist who worked on the study, says the need to be careful. We want to preserve the scientific record that the Moon represents and that we don't want
to contaminate the Moon and just assume that everything we are reset. Bertone says NASA may need to consider how it collects samples to reduce contamination. For NPR News, I'm Scott Masjone, and Baltimore. Three journalists who were fired last week from the military news outlet stars and stripes Thursday filed a federal lawsuit accusing defense secretary Pete Higgs at the Pentagon
of violating their first amendment rights to freak speech and to speak out against government
interference in their work. The Defense Department, which partially funds the news agency had been publishing on a continuing basis since World War I, it is editorially independent of the military, the lawsuit claims the three were fired because of their reporting about the deteriorating conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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