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What is the White House’s latest plan for supplying weapons to Ukraine and how is Russia reacting?
Live from MPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. Russia is dismissing a White House decision to provide additional military weapons to Ukraine through NATO as being misguided. President Trump made the announcement at a White House meeting Monday, citing frustration with Russia's failure to negotiate an end to attacks on Ukraine. and Pierre Charles Maines has more from Moscow.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Trump's decision to supply American military aid to Ukraine through NATO marked a continuation of Biden era policies under a different guise. Meanwhile, Kirill Dmitriev, the Kremlin's pointman for negotiations with the US, pledged dialogue with Washington would continue despite what he said were doomed efforts to pressure Moscow. And Russia's main market index jumped on the news that Trump would delay additional sanctions for at least. least fifty days, during which Trump said he expected Russia to negotiate a peace deal. Yet several prominent nationalists seized on that time frame, saying it provided Russia a new deadline to achieve victory on the battlefield.
How is the Trump administration’s effort to cut the Department of Education affecting federal employees?
Charles Maynes, MPR News, Moscow.
The US Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue gutting the Department of Education and laying off fourteen hundred employees at least for now. A lower court hat blocked the layoffs and questioned plans to dismantle the agency. More than a dozen large wildfires are burning in the West, and Perskirk Sigler reports that That a federal fire manager says the nation's firefighting fleet is close to being fully deployed.
The National Interagency Fire Center in Idaho has raised its national preparedness level to four, with the top being five, which means all resources are deployed to fires nationwide. This is not that unusual for July in the West, but fire managers say continued dry and windy conditions are a concern from western Colorado to Arizona where out of control fires have forced evacuations. President Trump's agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, says the Forest Service has the resources it needs and is close to full staffing at more than eleven thousand seasonal wildland firefighters. But sources inside the agency say that's not the whole story.
Why are western U.S. wildfires reaching near‑full deployment of firefighting resources?
Trump's doge laid off hundreds of agency staffers who also hold red cards, meaning they deployed fires. Kirk Sigler, then PR News.
A firefighters union says that poor staffing hindered the response to a deadly blaze at an assisted living facility. In southwestern Metassachuset city a full river. At least nine people died in the weekend blaze and at least thirty others were injured. Here's Paul Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan.
What went on when that first alarm rang bell rang? Um there were no there were none of our public safety people on staff at that time, and I wish there were, but um I'm sure by the time this is done b this was done because it is so severe that everything will come out in the investigation, which I hope.
Investigators in Bristol County say the blaze did not appear to be suspicious, but the cause is has not yet been determined.
What caused the deadly assisted‑living facility fire and what are investigators finding?
This is NPR. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs is calling for a federal probe into the National Park Service's response to a wildfire burning in the Grand Canyon. A controlled burn is now being used to contain the lightning spark dragon bravo blaze. There have been no reports of injuries from the fire, which is burning along the canyon's north rim. It is not frequented by visitors. The blaze has consumed over fifty seven hundred acres and is zero percent contained. Ice cream makers, at least those with the International Dairy Foods Association are pledging to eliminate artificial food dyes by twenty twenty seven. NPR Zuki Naguchi says the move has been pushed by Health Secretary Robert F.
How are ice‑cream makers planning to eliminate artificial food dyes by 2027?
Kennedy Jr.
The International Dairy Foods Association pledged its ice cream makers would get rid of petroleum-based dyes. At a press conference on Monday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins hailed it as a move away from government and toward industry self-regulation.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the White House’s latest plan for supplying weapons to Ukraine and how is Russia reacting?
0:01–1:02
2
How is the Trump administration’s effort to cut the Department of Education affecting federal employees?
1:02–2:08
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Why are western U.S. wildfires reaching near‑full deployment of firefighting resources?
2:08–2:58
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What caused the deadly assisted‑living facility fire and what are investigators finding?
2:58–3:43
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How are ice‑cream makers planning to eliminate artificial food dyes by 2027?
3:43–4:39