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What trade agreement did President Trump announce after meeting the EU?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Norah Rahm. President Trump met today with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to discuss trade. Trump had said the odds were fifty-fifty they could reach a great a trade agreement before his declared deadline on Friday. But he emerged from today's meeting in Scotland to say
Thank you very much. So we have good news. Uh we've reached a deal. It's a uh good deal for everybody, I believe. And uh It's I think you were saying this is probably the biggest deal ever reached in any capacity, trade or beyond trade.
Down from the thirty percent Trump had most recently threatened. Trump said the EU has agreed to accept imports at a zero tariff. The deal would not cover steel and aluminum nor pharmaceuticals.
How is Israel adjusting its military operations in Gaza amid aid concerns?
The EU has also agreed to buy $750 billion worth of US energy and to invest six hundred billion dollars into the US. Tomorrow Trump is to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Stormer. Israel has announced a change in its offensive in Gaza following international criticism about Israeli restrictions on aid leading to deaths from starvation. NPR's Daniel Estran reports from Tel Aviv.
Israel says it's pausing military activity 10 hours a day until further notice in Gaza City, Dar al Balach, and Mawasi, a large tent camp along the coast. Those are the areas where Israel has ordered Palestinians to shelter. Israel blamed Hamas for stoking chaos around aid distribution, and it says it's also creating secure routes for UN aid trucks to distribute food and medicine across Gaza. The hospital officials say even as these new routes and pauses and fighting came into effect Sunday, at least two dozen Palestinians seeking aid have been killed. Israel's military said it was looking into the matter. Daniel Estran, NPR News Tel Aviv.
Why are thousands of NASA employees applying to leave under the deferred resignation program?
More NASA employees have applied to leave their roles to the Trump administration's deferred resignation program. NPR's Chandelise Duster has more.
NASA says three thousand employees applied to leave the agency under the latest round of the deferred resignation program. That's in addition to more than eight hundred employees who applied to leave through the program earlier this year. Altogether, that amounts to nearly twenty percent of NASA's workforce. Cheryl Warner, a spokesperson for NASA, says safety remains a top priority for the agency as they quote balance the need to become a more streamlined and more efficient organization. The announcement comes days after more than three hundred current and former NASA employees have been. Signed a letter to interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy criticizing proposed cuts and changes. Chandelise Duster, NPR News.
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NPR News in Washington. Authorities in Michigan say a forty two year old man is in custody after a mass stabbing at a Walmart yesterday. The local sheriff's office says the man had entered the store in Traverse City shortly before five PM and stabbed eleven people with a folding knife.
What details emerged about the mass stabbing at a Michigan Walmart?
A deputy arrived within minutes. People in the store helped apprehend the suspect and treat the victims. Investigators say it appears the stabbings were carried out at random. After a promising step in talks about the future of the Colorado River, the seven states that use its water appear to be hitting more hurdles. Alex Hager of Member Station KUNC reports they're arguing over exactly how much water each state will get from the shrinking river.
Researcher John Fleck at the University of New Mexico says states are falling back into century-old rivalries. He says they admit that they need to use less of a river that's smaller than it used to be, but they're arguing about who should feel the sting of cutbacks, and they're afraid to make compromises.
This new method has a lot of promise, but as we work out the details, we're seeing that those old problems are surfacing again and the negotiations as a result just don't seem to be going as well as we had hoped they were.
The Colorado River supplies water to about forty million people across the southwest. It's getting smaller due to climate change.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What trade agreement did President Trump announce after meeting the EU?
0:00–0:59
2
How is Israel adjusting its military operations in Gaza amid aid concerns?
0:59–2:03
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Why are thousands of NASA employees applying to leave under the deferred resignation program?
2:03–3:16
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What details emerged about the mass stabbing at a Michigan Walmart?
3:16–4:17
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How are the seven Colorado River states negotiating water allocations as the river shrinks?
4:17–4:39