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What concerns does President Trump express about protests in Iran?
President Trump says he's concerned about reports on the rising number of protesters killed in Iran. And here's Tamara Keith reports he's telling the demonstrators to keep going and that help is on the way.
In an interview that aired on CBS News, anchor Tony DeCoppo asked Trump about reports that Iran may begin hanging protesters this week.
We will take very strong action. If they do such a thing, we will take very strong action. And this strong action you're talking about, what's the end game? The end game is to win. I like winning.
Asked how he defines winning, Trump mentioned Venezuela, military actions from his first term that took out terrorist leaders, and the strikes on Iran's nuclear program. It's still not clear precisely what Trump's objectives are in Iran, but he did say he wants to make Iran great again.
Tamara Keith, NPR News. President Trump says NATO should help the U.S. get Greenland and that anything other than having the semi-autonomous Danish territory under U.S. control is unacceptable. This hours before Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Rubio are set to meet at the White House today with foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark. On social media, Trump again said the U.S. needs Greenland for national security and that NATO should support his efforts to prevent Chinese or Russian influence. Duna Berthelsen is a member of Greenland's parliament.
Having a meeting, being able to sit down and seek diplomatic solutions is what we've been seeking from the whole beginning.
Greenland's prime minister says the island territory will remain with Denmark. And although the three governments have met before, today's meeting is the first call to discuss Trump's repeated threats to get Greenland. Last week, he said he was going to do something on them, whether they like it or not. A Mississippi man accused of setting fire to a synagogue with a history dating back to 1890 has been indicted on state charges. He's already been charged with arson in federal court. 19-year-old Steven Spencer Pittman is accused of setting fire to Jackson, Mississippi's only synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation. Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Shamira Muhammad has more.
The charges carry a hate crime enhancement, meaning harsher penalties if the felony was committed because of the perceived race, He faces up to 60 years of prison on the state charges alone. Pittman is a former honor student of a well-known Catholic school. The Catholic Diocese of Jackson has condemned the actions attributed to Pittman. And Hines County District Attorney Jody Owens says, quote, crimes motivated by hate and directed at places of worship strike at the core of who we are as a community. For NPR News, I'm Shamira Mohamed in Jackson, Mississippi.
Less than a half hour to go to the opening bell on Wall Street. U.S. futures contracts are lower. This is NPR. The Environmental Protection Agency is no longer considering the dollar value of health gains from air pollution regulations. As NPR's Alejandro Burunda reports, air pollution experts worry that could make it easier to weaken such regulations.
For years, the EPA has compared the costs for an industry to clean up pollution to the benefits to Americans' health. For example, cleaning up pollution from soot keeps people from getting asthma or having a heart attack or even dying. And EPA has put a dollar value on that better health. That's changing. EPA now says those dollar estimates of savings are too uncertain to use. And that could make it easier to roll back air protection rules, according to New York University environmental law expert Richard Gervais. He says rollbacks can look good.
But it looks good only because you ignore the main consequence of the rollback, which is the additional negative impact on public health.
Air pollution regulations have saved hundreds of thousands of lives each year, according to previous EPA estimates. Alejandra Burunda, NPR News.
The World Health Organization is calling on countries to increase taxes on sugary drinks and alcoholic beverages because of health issues including obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancers.
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