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What new defense spending targets were announced at the NATO summit?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. President Trump is at the NATO summit in The Hague and attended a dinner with leaders of the North Atlantic Alliance and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. MPR's owner of Beardsley reports the NATO allies will get down to serious business Wednesday.
European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said the Europe of Defense had finally awoken.
Tomorrow the summit will set indeed historic new spending targets for NATO allies.
The thirty two member nations are set to commit five percent of their gross national product toward defense spending, raising it from the current two percent. Von der Leyen says the boost is necessary to confront a newly aggressive Russia.
We know that Russia will be capable of testing our mutual defense commitments within the next five years. By twenty thirty, Europe must have everything it needs for credible deterrence.
How did the U.S. air campaign affect Iran’s nuclear program?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and President Trump's threats to leave NATO unless the Europeans paid quote their fair share has jolted alliance members into action. Eleanor Beardsley in Bier News The Hague.
A U.S. official not authorized to speak publicly has confirmed a CNN report that based on an early assessment, the massive U.S. air campaign against Iran this past weekend did not obliterate Iran's nuclear program, as the Trump administration has claimed, but instead set it back a few months. Senators were slated to get a classified briefing today, but that's now been moved to Thursday. Meanwhile, a somewhat tenuous ceasefire between Iran and Israel appears to be holding. A man charged in connection to the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California has died in federal custody. Member Station KVCR in San Bernardino, Madison Awment reports Daniel Park was in prison for supplying large amounts of chemicals used in the attack.
Who was charged in the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing and what happened to them?
Park was charged earlier this month for allegedly mailing some 270 pounds of ammonium nitrate to the FBI's main suspect in the bombing, Guy Edward Bartkiss. Bartkiss detonated a car bomb outside the clinic that was felt for blocks. He was the only person that died in what federal prosecutors called a suicidal terror attack. The FBI has not said how Park and Bartkiss knew each other, but have said they shared a fringe ideology called pro- The belief that people should not exist. The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not said how Park died. Their statement said Park was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles and declared dead at a hospital. For NPR News, I'm Madison Ament.
New York City voters are going to the polls today deciding whether Andrew Cuomo has done enough to make a political comeback.
What are the key issues shaping the New York City primary race featuring Andrew Cuomo?
Former governor hoping to reboot his career after being forced to resign amid allegations of sexual harassment. Cuomo faces a number of candidates in the city's primary, including Liberal opponent, 33-year-old Assemblyman Zron Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist who's been courting the youth vote. Current Mayor Eric Adams is running as an independent in the fall general. election. You're listening to NPR. Singer and actor Bobby Sherman, a teen idol in the nineteen sixties and seventies, has died. He was eighty one after John Stamos shared a post on Instagram with a statement from Sherman's wife, who said her husband had stage four cancer. And PR's Mandalito Barco has this remembrance.
More than fifty years ago, many teens had a crush on the easy-going pop star Bobby Sherman.
Why is the death of teen‑idol Bobby Sherman significant for pop culture history?
He was often featured in the popular Tiger Beat magazine, and his songs climb the billboard music charts. In 1969, Sherman scored a hit with Little Woman and later Easy Come, Easy Go and Julie Do You Love Me?
Little, literally, later you love
He performed on variety TV shows like Shindig and acted on the TV series Here Comes the Brides.
What's this all about? I don't know. I just got here myself.
Sherman also acted on the Mod Squad, Fantasy Island, and later Frasier. After Showbiz, Sherman became a reserve officer and an emergency medical trainer for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What new defense spending targets were announced at the NATO summit?
0:00–0:55
2
How did the U.S. air campaign affect Iran’s nuclear program?
0:55–1:48
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Who was charged in the Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing and what happened to them?
1:48–2:35
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What are the key issues shaping the New York City primary race featuring Andrew Cuomo?
2:35–3:22
5
Why is the death of teen‑idol Bobby Sherman significant for pop culture history?
3:22–4:01
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How is the last Long Island duck farm recovering after the bird‑flu loss?
4:01–4:39