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What is President Trump doing in Scotland and why does it matter?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump is spending the weekend in Scotland, his late mother's home country. He's playing golf, promoting golf resorts he owns there, and he'll meet with British and European leaders. But issues back home have followed him, and Piers Lauren Freyer has more from Edinburgh.
Stepping off Air Force One in Scotland, President Trump dodged reporters questions about his former friend Jeffrey Epstein.
I'm focused on making deals. I'm not focused on conspiracy theories that you are.
Trump is promoting his business interests here, inaugurating a new golf course at one of his resorts, and also talking trade and tariffs with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula Vanderleyen. But Scottish protesters lined his motorcade route, some with signs about Epstein.
How are Israeli airstrikes and aid drops affecting civilians in Gaza?
Lint. Lauren Freyer NPR News Edinburgh
The Israeli army says it will start dropping aid into Gaza and create humanitarian corridors to. To enable UN convoys to travel safely into the strip. This is Gaza health officials say at least fifty-seven people are dead from Israeli airstrikes in the last twenty-four hours as they were trying to get food along an aid route. And fears Emily Fang has more.
Some of the dead had been shot Friday night while trying to get food near Zikim Crossing on Gaza's northern border with Israel. The Israeli military fatally shot at least eighty people at the same crossing only days before, according to Gaza health officials and local morgues. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed more than two dozen more people over a twenty four hour period.
Why is Montreal experiencing record‑breaking air pollution from Canadian wildfires?
Gaza Health officials say more people may remain under rubble because rescue crews cannot reach them. Nearly sixty thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war in Gaza that began in twenty twenty three. And the deaths from what aid organizations say is man made starvation are growing. Emily Fang and Peer News Tel Aviv.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has made Montreal the most polluted city in the world today. Emma Jacobs has more.
The worst air ranking comes from IQ Air, an air quality monitoring site. Environment Canada warned Montreal area residents to limit exercise and time spent outdoors. While the sky has had a visible yellow cast, the most dangerous health hazards are too small to see.
What legal battle is stopping the Trump administration’s cuts to NEH grants?
Tiny particulate matter from wildfire smoke can cause respiratory symptoms, especially for those with asthma and other health conditions. Scientists say climate change has created ideal conditions for intense fires to burn in Canada's massive boreal forests for several years. This summer, wildfire smoke has led to air quality alerts across Canada and in many US states. For NPR News, I'm Emma Jacobs in Montreal. You're listening to NPR News
from Washington. A district court judge in New York has issued a temporary injunction that happened Friday stopping the Trump administration's cancellation of national endowment for the humanities grants to people in the authors' guilt, saying their First Amendment rights were violated. The suit against Doge and the NEH for terminating grants already appropriated by Congress is one of several filed by humanities groups. and historical, research, and library associations, which are trying to stop the cuts. The Postal Service is marking its two hundred fiftieth anniversary today and Piers Hanzi Le Wong reports this comes as the country's mail service faces an uncertain future during the Trump administration.
How is the U.S. Postal Service handling its 250th anniversary amid funding threats?
What began in seventeen seventy five with the horseback riders of the Constitutional Post has become a network for deliveries on foot, by truck, plane, boat, and even mule for about one hundred sixty-seven million addresses six days a week.
We deliver for you!
These days people are not relying on mail deliveries as much as they did when TVs ran that 1990 ad from USPS, which is a financial support of NPR. US mail! The American Postal Workers Union rallied this week in New York City to protest Trump administration talk of overhauling the independent mailing agency, which generally receives no tax dollars to keep it running.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is President Trump doing in Scotland and why does it matter?
0:00–0:58
2
How are Israeli airstrikes and aid drops affecting civilians in Gaza?
0:58–1:45
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Why is Montreal experiencing record‑breaking air pollution from Canadian wildfires?
1:45–2:28
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What legal battle is stopping the Trump administration’s cuts to NEH grants?
2:28–3:44
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How is the U.S. Postal Service handling its 250th anniversary amid funding threats?
3:44–4:38