Live from NPR News and Washington, on Ryland Barton.
President Trump is speaking in Dallas as Republicans hold a convention to try and rally ahead of this year's midterm elections, or determining control of Congress.
“"If we lose you're going to lose your butter, you're going to lose your tax cuts,”
you're going to lose your safety and security, you're going to lose your wealth, our country is going through hell, we will be going through hell just like you did just two years ago." "Organizers describe the event as a showcase for Trump's successes and Republican causes. It comes as Trump's approval rating declines the Iran War drags on and gas prices climb again. Some Republicans in tight races are skipping it, citing scheduling conflicts or high attendance fees.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Taloreco is hosting a food drive in Dallas and an attempt to contrast with the convention. U.S. Southern Command has announced another deadly strike on a boat in the Caribbean, and Piers Quill Lawrence reports U.S. forces killed three people suspected of narco-trafficking. "Southcom posted a blurry video on social media showing a small boat in the open sea, exploding in flames, and then wreckage floating in the water.
The Trump administration's policy of blowing up small boats on suspicion of drug smuggling began a year ago, and has killed more than 225 people. That includes survivors who were left to drown, or, in at least one case,
were killed while clinging to wreckage in a second attack.
The Trump administration says it is that war with drug traffickers and can therefore kill them on suspicion, but the laws of war specifically prohibit firing on shipwrecked sailors. Legal experts call it extrajudicial killing or simply murder, but White House claims the tactic has saved U.S. lives. But there is no evidence that the amount of drugs entering the U.S. has decreased.
Quill Lawrence and Pyrrnews." Ukrainian President Volodymer Zelensky is criticizing the international community for not taking a tougher stance against Russia's attacks on civilian areas.
“Russia recently launched heavy bombardments on key of the most intense attacks”
since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. Ukrainian officials say these strikes aim to weaken civilian morale. Temperatures across the globe were abnormally warm over the summer, and that broke several records as NPR's Lawrence Summer reports. It's not your imagination.
This summer was hot. In the U.S., it was the hottest summer in 132 years of record-keeping in the lower 48 states. August was also the hottest August on record for both average temperature and maximum temperature. That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Globally, August was also the hottest month ever recorded,
tying with July of 2023. It was about three degrees Fahrenheit hotter of an average, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. The plan is looking at potentially a hot year ahead, too. A very strong El Nino climate pattern is developing,
which raises temperatures globally. More in summer and PR news.
“The price of crude oil topped $100 a barrel again today.”
This is NPR news. One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane, that Korean, off of Miami, runway and killed five people repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast, roughly two minutes ahead of the collision. That's according to highlights of the cockpit,
recording released by the National Transportation Safety Board today. The plane touched down awkwardly briefly, attempted to take off and then smashed into a van carrying the five victims.
In Colorado, a second excavation at Ziegler Reservoir.
We'll happen next summer. Aspen Public Radio's Reagan merits reports, the site is recognized as the richest high-altitude Ice Age ecosystem ever discovered. In 2010, a construction crew uncovered a mammoth test. While digging to expand the Ziegler Reservoir and snowmass village.
The Denver Museum went on to uncover more than 35,000 animal bones representing 85,000 years of history. Sarasdugi Sanchez of snowmass tourism, says archaeologists hoped to discover more fossils, and conduct new research to provide context for the plants,
insects and animals discovered over a decade ago. "No, it's how many areas of thing is going to find out there. It's going to be pretty major."
Researchers from the first day will return
taken salt on the second one. For NPR News, I'm Reagan Merds, an Aspen Colorado. A cemetery in northern Hungary held a grave digging contest last weekend. The two-man team of Robert Nagy and Lazlo Kiss won the
digging one by digging a grave in one hour and 21 minutes. They followed contest specifications of depth, length, and width, and shared a prize of 200,000 Hungarian forms for about $640. This is NPR.
"I haven't seen my son since 2012." This is Deborah Tys. The disappearance of her son, Austin, is one of the biggest missing person cases in the world. "What do you want from me?
Why should I have the mystery?" "I know that my son is somewhere alive." Listen to "Where is Austin Tys?" From NPR's embedded,
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