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What is President Trump doing in Scotland and why does it matter?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. President Trump is in Scotland this weekend where he'll be visiting two of his golf courses and meeting with officials to discuss potential trade deals.
We're also meeting with, as you know, the head of uh UK, Prime Minister, and I look forward to that. But we're meeting in terms of a deal, we're meeting with the European Union, and that would be actually the biggest deal of them all if we make
Trump said he believed there's a fifty fifty chance that a deal with the EU will happen, but he said as many as twenty sticking points still remain in the negotiations. He was also asked about Jeffrey Epstein. He said he was never briefed on whether his name appears in the documents surrounding Epstein's conviction. France says it will recognize a Palestinian state this September.
Why is France’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state causing pressure on the UK?
It's the first of the so called G seven industrialized states to do so, and the United Kingdom is now under pressure to do the same, as NPR's Lauren Freya reports from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Hundreds of British lawmakers and former diplomats have signed letters calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to recognize a Palestinian state. After France said it would do so, Starmer was supposed to hold an emergency call with his French and German counterparts. But it was postponed and they issued a statement instead, calling on Israel to immediately lift restrictions on the flow of aid to Gaza. Starmer issued a separate statement saying he's working. on a pathway to Mideast peace, and that recognition of a Palestinian state is part of that, but that it must be part of a wider plan, and he did not give a timeline. His government has suspended some arms exports to Israel but continues to send it fighter jet components and share intelligence.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Edinburgh.
How are Florida’s new deportation flights being challenged by lawyers and lawsuits?
Florida's governor says deportation flights have begun from an immigration detention center in southern Florida. MPR's Greg Allen reports that elected officials and lawyers for detainees have filed lawsuits after being denied access to the facility.
Governor Ron DeSantis says a hundred detainees who had final removal orders have been deported from the facility, located at an airport in the heart of the Everglades.
This provides an ability uh to enhance the mission to increase the number and frequency of deportations.
DeSantis says hundreds more have been flown from the facility to other locations in the U.S. before being deported. Several lawsuits are challenging operations at the facility, including one filed by attorneys who've been denied access to their clients. Florida's emergency management director says the lawyers weren't allowed to speak to their clients for technology issues, but that on site representation will be possible by Monday.
What are the details of the federal education grants released after a six‑billion‑dollar hold?
Greg Allen in PR News, Miami.
The Trump administration announced Friday that it's releasing billions of dollars in grants to schools. The Education Department had withheld more than six billion dollars in funding in July. They said a review was first needed to make sure the spending aligned with White House priorities. The money funds English language instruction, as well as adult literacy and other programs. You're listening to NPR News. Former US Representative George Santos has reported to a prison in New Jersey. He's serving a seven year sentence for fraud.
Why was former Representative George Santos transferred to a New Jersey prison?
The Bureau of Prisons says he's now at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton. Santin Santos pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Minnesota legislature is now offering to cover the cost of home safety measures for state elected officials. From Minnesota Public Radio, Dana Ferguson reports that this follows a deadly shooting of a state representative last month.
The state will provide up to forty five hundred dollars for the upgrades. House and Senate officials say the funds will come from the chamber's operating budgets. The move to improve lawmakers' home security comes after State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed at their home.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is President Trump doing in Scotland and why does it matter?
0:01–0:46
2
Why is France’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state causing pressure on the UK?
0:46–1:40
3
How are Florida’s new deportation flights being challenged by lawyers and lawsuits?
1:40–2:32
4
What are the details of the federal education grants released after a six‑billion‑dollar hold?
2:32–3:08
5
Why was former Representative George Santos transferred to a New Jersey prison?
3:08–3:55
6
How is Minnesota funding home‑security upgrades for lawmakers after recent shootings?
3:55–4:39