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How is Israel’s new aid drop plan affecting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Israel is resuming aid drops into Gaza and says that it will create humanitarian corridors for UN convoys. This announcement comes amid rising international criticism over famine conditions in Gaza. Channel Lowe is with the Norwegian Refugee Council. She says the situation is heartbreaking and it's hitting colleagues.
Conditions there are simply indescribable. Our colleagues themselves are going hungry. They are starving. They are frankly at a loss for words after twenty-one months of pleading with the world to do something.
What details are known about the random stabbing at a Michigan Walmart?
And now facing starvation themselves and seeing the widespread impacts across Gaza.
Speaking there to NPR's weekend edition, meanwhile Gaza health officials say nearly sixty people were killed in the last twenty four hours after the Israeli military shot a people waiting for food at an aid station. In Michigan, eleven people were injured in a stabbing incident at a Walmart near Traverse City. They're being treated at a local hospital. Police say it appears to be random and they have one person in custody. So far there's no word on a motive. President Trump is in Scotland this weekend visiting his golf resorts and meeting with British and European leaders. A major security operation is underway for his visit, but some locals are concerned about the scale and the cost of the operation.
Emperor's Fatimal Kassab has more from Edinburgh.
Why are Scottish taxpayers concerned about President Trump’s security costs during his Scotland visit?
President Trump's visit to his golf courses on opposite sides of the country has prompted a major police operation around Scotland, which is expected to cost Scottish taxpayers millions of dollars. Carrie Walsh from Glasgow says she's not sure it's worth it. So much is being spent on him being here, and I don't know what the benefit of him being here is, if I'm honest. The Scottish Police Union says resources are stretched and it may take officers much longer to respond. To other incidents over the weekend as a result. Protesters are planning what they are calling a festival of resistance to the president's visit, with demonstrations underway in several Scottish cities. Fatimir al-Khasab, MPR News, Edinburgh.
A Southwest Airlines flight abruptly dropped several hundred feet shortly after takeoff to avoid a mid-air collision with another plane. Southwest says two flight attendants were injured, and Pierre Zalana Weiss reports.
Pilots were responding to safety alerts that there was another aircraft operating nearby. A website that tracks flights, Flight Radar 24, shows that a privately owned fighter jet was passing through the same area at the time. After the plunge, the flight continued to Vegas without further incident.
What caused the Southwest Airlines flight to lose altitude and how did the FAA respond?
The FAA said it was investigating. Despite cuts to the agency's workforce, it said that no safety-related positions have been eliminated. Eliminated Alana Wise NPR News This is NPR News.
As the Postal Service celebrates its two hundred fiftieth anniversary today, some worry that drastic changes are coming under a new postmaster general appointed from the board of FedEx. UP USPS is a financial supporter of NPR. Nick Loomis has more.
Alan Smith's recovery from liver cancer is complicated by diabetes, arthritis, and the effects of West Nile virus. He worries that his medications from Veterans Affairs would stop coming to his home in northwestern Nebraska under postal reforms and other government cutbacks proposed by the Trump administration. It feels to me like it's coming at me right and left.
How could proposed Postal Service reforms impact veterans receiving medication?
They're trying to destroy everything that supports me staying alive and functioning. President Trump has suggested privatizing the Postal Service or bringing it under the Department of Commerce. Postal unions have said Postmaster General David Steiner was appointed as an agent of privatization, which he denied last week, his first on the job. For MPR News, I'm Nick Loomis.
The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories and extreme heat warnings from Minnesota to Louisiana and along the eastern seaboard today, with temperatures expected in the upper nineties to low one hundreds.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is Israel’s new aid drop plan affecting the humanitarian crisis in Gaza?
0:00–0:39
2
What details are known about the random stabbing at a Michigan Walmart?
0:39–1:31
3
Why are Scottish taxpayers concerned about President Trump’s security costs during his Scotland visit?
1:31–2:46
4
What caused the Southwest Airlines flight to lose altitude and how did the FAA respond?
2:46–3:37
5
How could proposed Postal Service reforms impact veterans receiving medication?
3:37–4:38