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How is the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen after the missile attack on Riyadh?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. Saudi Arabia is confirming that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack Riyadh with a ballistic missile. NPR Zyobatrawi reports it comes as aid groups say half of Yemen's population needs humanitarian assistance. The UN
World Food Program says that in just a matter of days this month, 125,000 people were displaced in Yemen. And it says that number will likely rise as frontline fighting moves. Alison Bottomley is with the aid group, the Norwegian Refugee Council, in Yemen.
It's a very dynamic, moving, massive. Scale of displacement. Bottomley says the situation is dire.
Why are Democrats and journalists criticizing President Trump's ban on White House access for CNN, MSNBC, and Politico?
Most of the camps are already full. So they're hoping to find space or they move on or they try. To find someone in the local villages that will help them, but people are also sleeping
under trees. The UN Refugee Council says more than twenty four hundred people have fled Yemen this past week alone. Ayy Botrawi NPR
News, Dubai. Democrats and journalists are warning that President Trump's decision to ban CNN, MSNow and Politico from the White House would limit freedom of the press, but the White House defends it. Imperial's Lydia Calitri reports it comes as Trump has faced several setbacks this week.
Авто президен Трам анонс за бан у Фридай, форма President Barack Obama said it was unimaginable what the reaction would have been if he had done the same during his presidency. Юдж катка Вайхаус прес брифін зенімо.
What are the latest developments in early voting and Senate race spending ahead of the November election?
Cause you're giving the current president unfavorable coverage. UN Ambassador Mike Waltz defended Trump's ban on Sunday, telling CNN
the president is absolutely within his rights uh to limit uh journalists to government facilities, uh particularly when in his opinion they're not behaving as good faith journalists.
White House Correspondents Association President Jackie Heinrich says that denying access to journalists violates the First Amendment. Lydia Kaleetri, MPR News, Washington.
Early voting for November's general election gets underway in several more states this week.
And election day.
Republicans have a spending advantage in eight of the nine most competitive US Senate races. That's thanks to outside groups like two Trump aligned super PACs that have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into races in just the last two weeks. But if you look at where that money is going, you see the GOP is playing defense, like spending in House districts where Trump won by more than 10 or 15 points in 2024 in Texas, Kentucky, and Alabama.
How is Cuba coping with nationwide blackouts amid the U.S. oil blockade?
And those Senate races in reliably red states that Democrats now have a chance to flip. Stephen Fowler, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Cuba is restoring power after another nationwide blackout left millions in the dark. The latest collapse comes nine months into a US oil blockade that's deepened the island's fuel crisis, and Pierre Zeta Peralta has more from Mexico City.
Cuba's electrical grid has been on the ropes for years, but ever since the U.S. enacted an oil blockade in January, nationwide blackouts have become commonplace. This year there have been at least six total collapses. The Cuban government says this one started in the West and spread to the whole island on Friday.
What impact did the massive drone attack on Russian oil and logistics facilities have on the Ukraine‑Russia conflict?
By Saturday morning, some of the grid had come online and most of the capital, Havana, had been restored. Even outside these blackouts, Cubans have been living With precious little electricity, often going more than thirty hours at a time without power. The US government says the oil blockade is intended to bring a political transition in Cuba, but the Cuban government says right now there are no active negotiations with the United States.
Russia says Ukraine launched more than a thousand drones overnight around the country and hundreds of targets in Moscow, including a major oil refinery and a residential building. At least two people are dead, dozens of others are wounded. Ukraine's president Zelensky says the attack was aimed at oil and logistics facilities to put pressure on Russia's economy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How is the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen after the missile attack on Riyadh?
0:00–0:43
2
Why are Democrats and journalists criticizing President Trump's ban on White House access for CNN, MSNBC, and Politico?
0:43–1:34
3
What are the latest developments in early voting and Senate race spending ahead of the November election?
1:34–2:47
4
How is Cuba coping with nationwide blackouts amid the U.S. oil blockade?
2:47–3:35
5
What impact did the massive drone attack on Russian oil and logistics facilities have on the Ukraine‑Russia conflict?
3:35–4:32
6
What is NPR’s “If You Can Keep It” series and why does it matter for American democracy?
4:32–5:03