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What did President Trump announce about selling Patriot missiles to NATO and Ukraine?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump announced the US will sell weapons to NATO, including Patriot Missile Systems. The NATO alliance will then supply those weapons to Ukraine. NPR's Tamra Keith reports Trump is also threatening economic consequences for Russia if its war with Ukraine continues.
Президен Трамп на War quickly, but now he says he's frustrated with Russian president Vladimir Путін.
А він гірсомач ток толток.
Trump said if the war doesn't end in 50 days, he will impose stiff economic penalties on Russia. As for the Patriot weapons, Trump praised the arrangement with NATO.
We are not buying it, but we will manufacture it and they're gonna be paying for it.
Trump delivered these remarks during a friendly Oval Office meeting with NATO's Secretary General. Tamar Keith, NPR News.
Search and rescue efforts across central Texas are being hampered by additional rain more than a week after catastrophic flooding devastated the region.
How are additional rains affecting search‑and‑rescue efforts after the Texas floods?
Губерна Грег Абет сафілся for people who lost their homes.
The state is working with local officials to address those needs. There's also infrastructure. around those people. That make living where they are or accessing their home. Either difficult or impossible.
The death toll has risen to at least one hundred thirty-one, with more than one hundred sixty people missing. Officials say that search efforts for flood victims could take months. Steve Futterman reports that amidst the loss of life and destruction, there's occasionally a touching moment.
Gil Rowe grew up here in Kerrville, and now that he is retired, he is back. His home overlooking the Guadalupe River is almost a total loss.
What personal items were discovered in the flood‑damaged home in Kerrville, Texas?
But as the cleanup crews were removing debris from his home, they found something. We
found a s a stack of napkins.
These were not ordinary napkins.
My wife and I have been married sixty-two years and on the bottom it said when we were married, December twenty-seventh, nineteen sixty-two. So one of the really young volunteers brought up this stack of napkins. Says, is this important to you?
The crew also found the sweater his wife wore when she was a cheerleader in the early nineteen sixties at Kerrville's only high school. Two treasured mementos amidst the rubble. For MPR News, I'm Steve Federman in Kerrville, Texas.
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to move ahead with his plans to dismantle the Department of Education and lay off nearly 1400 people. The Trump administration had asked the justices to block a lower court ruling that directed the department to reinstate employees who were fired.
Why is the Supreme Court allowing Trump to dismantle the Department of Education?
Stocks traded higher today on Wall Street, the Dow up eighty eight points, the Nasdaq rose fifty-four. This is NPR News. More than twenty states are suing the Trump administration over billions of dollars in frozen funding for after-school care, summer activities, and other youth services. Congress had set aside money for the boys and girls clubs, the YMCA, and public schools that provide academic support. The White House says it wants to make sure the recipients' programs align with the President's priorities. Bastia Day in France is taking place this year against the backdrop of the real threat of war. MPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports President Emmanuel Macron has warned the nation that France and Europe must be ready to face a newly aggressive Russia if they want to keep peace on the continent.
Like every year,
the French watched the hours-long colorful Bastia Day military parade live on TV with running commentary. But this year the idea of needing that military felt closer with the full blown war between Ukraine and Russia on the continent and the US stepping back from Europe militarily.
Which states are suing the Trump administration over frozen youth‑program funding?
In an address to the nation last night, Macron said since nineteen forty five, freedom has never been so under threat. And not since then has peace on our continent depended so heavily on our decisions today, he said. France plans to double military spending in the next two years.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What did President Trump announce about selling Patriot missiles to NATO and Ukraine?
0:00–1:08
2
How are additional rains affecting search‑and‑rescue efforts after the Texas floods?
1:08–1:54
3
What personal items were discovered in the flood‑damaged home in Kerrville, Texas?
1:54–2:51
4
Why is the Supreme Court allowing Trump to dismantle the Department of Education?
2:51–4:06
5
Which states are suing the Trump administration over frozen youth‑program funding?
4:06–4:38