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What details did Senator Blumenthal request about President Trump's travel after the NATO summit?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schivoni. Senator Richard Blumenthal says he wants to know details about new reports of President Trump's travel out of Turkey after a NATO summit. The Washington Post reports that Trump boarded Air Force One, clandestinely left the plane, and due to security concerns, traveled out of Turkish airspace on a military aircraft.
And that's why I'd like to know what precautions were taken to make sure that they were safe. flying in an airplane that could have been a target of the Iranians with missiles or other devices that were capable of baiting the defensive Mechanisms on air the old Air Force One.
Blumenthal spoke on CNN. NPR has not confirmed this independently.
How is Iran influencing President Trump’s stance on reopening the Strait of Hormuz?
President Trump is clapping back over Iran's latest financial demands to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Franco Ordonia says more.
Was just a week ago that Trump was boasting that he would soon be announcing an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But now both sides are making demands for compensation. Corey Shaki served in the George W. Bush White House. She said Iran has rightly assessed the president's desperation to end the war and is trying to hurt the president politically, likening it to the nineteen seventy nine Iranian hostage crisis that helped take down another former president.
It looks to me like the Iranian regime wants to turn President Trump. into Jimmy Carter who wants to impose the kind of humiliation on President Trump that they imposed on President Carter.
And she says they appear to be succeeding. Franco Ordoniaz, NPR News.
What are the implications of the newly‑drawn congressional districts in Alabama’s special primary election?
Russia has released former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, arrested four years ago in Russia. The US has argued he was wrongfully detained, the thirty two year old Gilman Planned to teach English in Moldova and was traveling when he fell ill on a train and was arrested. Facing disputed charges, he kicked a police officer. Gilman is said to be quite ill. There's a special primary election in Alabama today for several congressional districts reconfigured mid cycle this after the US Supreme Court removed race as a consideration for drawing district lines, but allowed for partisan gerrymandering. NPR's Debbie Elliott has more.
Joseph Spraggins of Hope Hall is a voter I spoke with. His congressional district changed and he's skeptical about the new map and thinks it will likely dilute the black vote in Alabama.
Why are tech billionaires spending millions to oppose California’s Proposition 40 wealth tax?
It has been crazy and it's just seems so unfair because with the representation you the Congression District should be equal to the percentage of the people in that state. With this, it throws everything out of whack.
Candidates acknowledge this confusion and they fear this is going to be a low turnout affair.
NPR's Debbie Elliott reporting Wall Street the Dow off ninety three, the NASDAQ off one hundred and fifty three. This is NPR. In South America, rescue efforts continue in Colombia, where yesterday's seven point four magnitude quake has left at least one hundred and seventy nine people dead, multiple injuries, and extensive damage in that country's Pacific Coast region. Emergency personnel say nearly six hundred people are injured, more than twenty seven hundred missing. The military and volunteers are working to locate people possibly trapped under buildings using drones and search dogs. Tech billionaires are ramping up spending to defeat a wealth tax in California. Google co-founder Sergei Brynn has spent more than a hundred million to fight it, and PR's Bobby Allen has more.
A November ballot measure known as Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on California residents worth more than a billion dollars. If passed, the tax would fund healthcare programs in the state. Leading the fight against the tax is a coalition including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has so far spent $102 million to blanket the state with ads and commercials condemning the ballot measure. Brynn has compared the tax to the Soviet-style socialism his family fled. He has moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe to avoid the tax.
How are rescue teams using drones and search dogs after Colombia’s 7.4‑magnitude earthquake?
Brent is also supporting two competing ballot measures in November that would effectively avoid the billionaires' tax.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What details did Senator Blumenthal request about President Trump's travel after the NATO summit?
0:01–0:50
2
How is Iran influencing President Trump’s stance on reopening the Strait of Hormuz?
0:50–1:42
3
What are the implications of the newly‑drawn congressional districts in Alabama’s special primary election?
1:42–2:31
4
Why are tech billionaires spending millions to oppose California’s Proposition 40 wealth tax?
2:31–4:11
5
How are rescue teams using drones and search dogs after Colombia’s 7.4‑magnitude earthquake?
4:11–4:55
6
What impact did July’s record heat have on U.S. weather patterns and future forecasts?
4:55–4:57