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What new Russian attacks on Ukraine were reported and how do they affect upcoming peace talks?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingley. Russian forces launched more attacks on Ukraine overnight, targeting at least three cities, including Odessa. One death and two dozen injuries are reported. These latest Russian attacks come a day before delegations from Moscow and Kyiv are slated to hold another round of direct peace talks. Lawyers for the Trump administration and Harvard University faced off in federal court yesterday in Massachusetts. Harvard is challenging the administration's decision to freeze more than two billion dollars worth of federal grants and contracts at the university. Kirk Carapesa with member station GBH says many alumni voiced their support of the school following the court proceeding.
Very toss. Veritas. Veritas. Absolutely.
Anurima Bargava leads the Harvard alumni group Crimson Courage.
Why are Harvard University and the Trump administration fighting over frozen federal grants?
At a rally after the hearing, she said the Trump administration has gone too far.
They're saying that we can basically interfere whenever we feel like it. Without regard for the Constitution or federal laws and the and the procedures that are under them.
In court, lawyers for the administration argued that federal funding is a privilege, not a right. They said if Harvard fails to address alleged anti-Semitism, money stripped from the school could conceivably go to community colleges and historically black universities instead. For NPR News, I'm Kirk Carapesa in Boston.
National Archives is publishing thousands of documents related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What documents is the National Archives releasing about Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination?
in nineteen sixty-eight. The move was prompted by President Trump's executive order calling for documents to be declassified and released on King's assassination, as well as the slangs of then President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, says more than two hundred thirty thousand files are being made public. She says they include details about the FBI's investigation into King's death and the conviction of James Earl Ray. Cases of COVID nineteen appear to be surging in the US. That's according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as NPR's Rob Stein reports.
COVID has surged every winter and summer since the pandemic began, and this summer looks no different. The amount of virus showing up in wastewater and the number of people testing positive and showing up in emergency rooms to get treated for COVID have been increasing now for weeks in some bellwether parts of the country, like the south and the west.
How is the COVID‑19 summer surge impacting U.S. wastewater data and hospital ER visits?
It's impossible to know how big this summer's wave will be or how long it is.
Rob Stein, NPR News.
This is NPR News from Washington. Authorities in Costa Rica say actor Malcolm Jamal Warner, who was best known for playing Theo on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, has died after drowning in the ocean while on vacation with his family. It appears Warner may have gotten caught in a rip current while swimming on Sunday. Warner was fifty four years old. A man convicted of killing a six year old boy in New York City who disappeared decades ago has had his conviction overturned by a federal appeals court. NPR's Brian Man.
His body was never found, but in 2017, a jury convicted Pedro Hernandez, a former Bodega worker of murder in the case. But a panel of federal judges has now ruled that jurors in that trial
What happened to actor Malcolm Jamal Warner and how did the market close on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq?
Were given improper instructions about how to weigh the validity of a series of confessions given by Hernandez after hours of interrogation, during which time he was given medications for mental illness. Hernandez will now be set free unless Manhattan's district attorney, Alvin Bragg, chooses to try him again. Brian Mann, NPR News, New York.
Wall Street is coming off another day of record high closes for the S P five hundred and the Nasdaq. The SP finished at sixty three hundred five yesterday. The NASDAQ closed at twenty thousand nine seventy four. Economists say investors are reacting to some of the latest numbers on corporate earnings. I'm Dave Mattingley, NPR News in Washington.
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5 chapters
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What new Russian attacks on Ukraine were reported and how do they affect upcoming peace talks?
0:01–0:56
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Why are Harvard University and the Trump administration fighting over frozen federal grants?
0:56–1:36
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What documents is the National Archives releasing about Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination?
1:36–2:38
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How is the COVID‑19 summer surge impacting U.S. wastewater data and hospital ER visits?
2:38–3:57
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What happened to actor Malcolm Jamal Warner and how did the market close on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq?
3:57–4:39