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What is the current situation with the Texas flooding and community clean‑up efforts?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Cleanup is continuing in central Texas following massive flooding last week. Murray Van Gundy says members of the Kerrville Bible Church have been helping all week to clear away debris.
One of our members of our church their house flooded up in Hunt, so we spent Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday cleaning their house out. and they were able to salv salvage the the structure of it. ripped all the drywall out of the ceilings, out of the walls. They had three feet of mud throughout the whole house. It reached ten feet in their house. But thankfully they got out safe.
How is President Trump using new tariff letters against Mexico and the EU?
Questions meanwhile are being raised about one flooded camp for children that had some of its buildings removed several years ago from federal flood maps. President Trump has sent a new round of letters imposing tariffs on some U.S. trading partners, as MPR's Tamara Keith reports. This time it's Mexico and the European Union getting the tariff threats.
Trump says he intends to hit both Mexico and the European Union with a 30% tariff rate starting August 1st. In the case of Mexico, he cites the country's inability to halt the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. In the EU letter, Trump blames long-term, large, and persistent trade deficits engendered by tariff and non-tariff policies and trade barriers. As with all the two dozen or so letters Trump has sent this money. month, he threatened Mexico and the EU with even higher tariffs if they respond with higher import levies of their own.
Why are aid deliveries to Gaza becoming increasingly dangerous for civilians?
Initially, Trump said he was trying to secure new, more favorable trade deals. Now he says these letters are the deals. Tamar Keith, NPR News.
Efforts to get food into Gaza have become extremely dangerous. The United Nations Human Rights Office says almost 800 people have been killed as they tried to get food at aid distribution points in a period of just six weeks. MPR's Ruth Sherlock has more.
The UN Human Rights Office figures cover the period between May seventh and july seventh. The vast majority, six hundred and fifteen people, were killed while trying to access aid distribution sites run by the US and Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The foundation's aid centres are in Israeli militarized zones and run by US private security contractors.
What legal actions did the UK take against the pro‑Palestinian group Palestine Action?
They're overcrowded, and the United Nations says are quote inherently unsafe. Israel has strictly limited the flow of aid into Gaza from the UN and other international organizations, saying supplies were falling into the hands of Hamas operatives. Now the European Union says it's reached a deal that should allow for an increase in daily trucks of food and other items into Gaza. But the timeline for when this might begin remains unclear. Ruth Sherlock, NPR News.
More than seventy people were arrested in the UK on Saturday during protests against a recent action by the government. The UK used a terrorism law to ban the pro-Palestinian group known as Palestine Action. The ban came after group members vandalized a Royal Air Force base back in June. Under the ban, members of the group and their supporters can be sentenced to up to fourteen years in prison.
How did environmental groups stop a strip‑mine project near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp?
You're listening to NPR News. Environmental groups in Georgia are celebrating a big win after years of fighting a proposed strip mine next to one of the largest protected swamps in the US. Marissa Mackie from Member Station WABE reports.
A six-year-long fight is coming to an end as the Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit, finalizes a sixty million dollar purchase of about eight thousand acres near the Okie Fanoki swamp. Alabama based Twin Pines Minerals, owned the ridge next to the swamp and applied for permits with the State of Georgia in twenty nineteen to mine titanium dioxide, a whitening pigment used in paints and foods. Scientists argue digging into the ridge along the swamp would lower the already very shallow water levels and dry up fire prone areas. The sale is set to be completed july thirty first. For NPR News, I'm Marissa Meki in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez says the Soccer World Cup games played in the US next year should have morning starts.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the current situation with the Texas flooding and community clean‑up efforts?
0:01–0:30
2
How is President Trump using new tariff letters against Mexico and the EU?
0:30–1:20
3
Why are aid deliveries to Gaza becoming increasingly dangerous for civilians?
1:20–2:05
4
What legal actions did the UK take against the pro‑Palestinian group Palestine Action?
2:05–2:57
5
How did environmental groups stop a strip‑mine project near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp?
2:57–4:01
6
What concerns did Enzo Fernández raise about World Cup match timing and player safety?
4:01–4:39