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Why are EU leaders condemning Russia’s latest airstrikes on Ukraine?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. EU leaders are condemning Russia's overnight strikes on Ukraine, the biggest air attack since Moscow's full scale invasion started more than three years ago. Terry Schultz reports the airstrikes targeted a Ukrainian government building for the first time in the world.
This war. Top officials in the European Union vow quick work on tightening up sanctions against Russia. European Council President Antonio Costa wrote on X talking about peace while escalating bombings and targeting government buildings and homes. This is Putin's version of peace. EU foreign policy chief Kaya Callis also addressed Putin's seriousness about the peace talks President Trump is trying to arrange. Every Russian attack is a deliberate choice, Calas rot on X and a message: Russia does not want peace.
How is President Trump planning to use the National Guard in Chicago and what are the legal challenges?
European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen described the Kremlin actions as mocking diplomacy, trampling international law, and killing indiscriminately. The block aims to approve its nineteenth sanctions package against Russia this month. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
President Trump is trying to walk back his comments that Chicago is about to quote find out why it's called the Department of War. Referring there to his efforts last week to rebrand the Department of Defense. This as Chicago braces for Trump to send in the National Guard as he did in Washington DC. And Piers Mara Lyon
has more. The district is a federal district, not a state. It's unclear whether courts are going to allow him to do this in places where governors control their state national guard troops.
What are Boeing’s tactics in the St. Louis union strike and how might they affect contract negotiations?
He's already had one court ruling against him about sending troops to Los Angeles over the objections of the governor there. And part of this, as Trump himself has explained, is political. He says the midterm elections will be about crime. He wants them to be about crime. He says the crime issue is good for Republicans and he doesn't want them to be about the Jeffrey Epstein files or vaccines or the economy.
Empire's Mara Eliason reporting yesterday thousands marched in DC calling for Trump to remove the National Guard and Federal Law Enforcement troops. Boeing says it will start hiring replacement workers for about thirty two hundred union members on strike in the St. Louis area. St.
Who won the 2025 US Open men’s title and how did the final match unfold?
Louis Public Radio's Olivia
Maisel has more. Manson Graves, a mechanic for Boeing, says he thinks the recent announcement from company executive Dan Gillian is a tactic to divide the union. Instead of him going in and sitting with the uh contract negotiation team to bargain a better contract, he's using these tactics to target the union members and to break us. Gillian said this week that he is not willing to change the economic framework of the union contract. The workers on strike staffed three manufacturing plants in the St. Louis area that produce weapons and equipment for the United States military, including fighter jets.
Olivia Meisell reporting. US futures contracts are trading higher at this hour, you're listening to NPR News. Carlos Alcaraz is the winner of the US Open Men's Tennis Tournament.
Why is the horror film *The Conjuring: Last Rights* breaking box‑office records this fall?
The twenty two year old Spaniard now has six grand slam titles to his name, and with this win he reclaims the world number one ranking, and Pierce Belky Sullivan has more.
Alcarez was on fire at the U.S. Open Open this year. He didn't drop a single set on his way to the men's singles final. There, he met, who else? Yannick Sinner, the 24-year-old Italian with whom Alcarez has taken over the world of men's tennis. In Queens on Sunday, Alcarez finally lost a set, but only one, ultimately beating Center in four sets: 6'2, 36, 6'1, 6'4. Between them, Alcarez and Center have won every Grand Slam title this year and last. Before accepting his trophy, Alcaraz first thanked his rival.
What are the key takeaways from today’s NPR news roundup?
I'm seeing you more than my family, so it's uh Jesus. So it's uh I mean it's it's uh it's great to to share the courts.
The next Grand Slam isn't until January. That'll be the Australian Open. That's the only Grand Slam title Alcarez has not yet won in his career.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are EU leaders condemning Russia’s latest airstrikes on Ukraine?
0:00–0:50
2
How is President Trump planning to use the National Guard in Chicago and what are the legal challenges?
0:50–1:36
3
What are Boeing’s tactics in the St. Louis union strike and how might they affect contract negotiations?
1:36–2:13
4
Who won the 2025 US Open men’s title and how did the final match unfold?
2:13–3:06
5
Why is the horror film *The Conjuring: Last Rights* breaking box‑office records this fall?
3:06–3:46
6
What are the key takeaways from today’s NPR news roundup?
3:46–4:39