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What is President Trump’s stance on Iran and the UN General Assembly address?
Live from NPR News, I'm Gyel Snyder. President Trump says he has a big decision to make on Iran. Does he make a deal or in his words annihilate them? And Pierre's Michelle Calaman reports on Trump's address to the UN General Assembly.
President Trump says he has some options on Iran. He says he thinks they'll make a deal after the US midterm elections. But he's also warning Iran that the US could quote drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope for future greatness for generations. The US launched the war without international backing, and many countries are looking to the US and Iran to de-escalate and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But the Iranian backed Houthis in Yemen are threatening another key trade route in the Red Sea. And the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says it's time to resolve this. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the United Nations.
Well at the UN Tuesday, President Trump confirmed that US and Iranian officials met for what he said was a three hour meeting. He told reporters that the meeting came shortly after his UN speech. Iranian president Mosubazeshkian is expected to address the General Assembly later today. The attorney for a Venezuela man shot by a federal immigration officer in Austin, Texas on Sunday says he is back in ICE detention center after being taken to a hospital for a second time.
How is the Venezuelan man's immigration case progressing after his shooting?
a member from Congressman Joaquin Castro's office visited him and told us that he was losing mobility in his left arm because the bullet is lodged near his spine. So his family and I spent the the night very concerned for him.
Attorney Kate Lincoln Goldfinch speaking to M PR. She has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop attempts to remove her client, twenty-eight year old Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez from the country. A judges ordered Garces Perez to appear in person at a hearing September thirtieth in San Antonio. The former head of the US Forest Service under the first Trump administration is speaking out against a controversial reorganization of the agency that's happening under the current administration. And Pierce Kirk Sigler reports former staffers argue the plan will amount to the dismantling of a country's primary wildfire agency.
The Forest Service, along with its parent agency, the U. S. Agriculture Department, are undergoing a massive reorganization, including the closure of seven regional offices, research stations, and the relocation of its headquarters from Washington DC to Utah. Vicky Christensen was a Trump appointee who ran the agency from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one.
The reduction in the federal workforce without any real specific strategy uh Is concerning
in a press call organized by environmental groups.
Why are former Forest Service officials opposing the agency’s reorganization?
USDA has defended it in statements to NPR saying it will make the agency more efficient.
This is MPR. To Jackson, Mississippi now Nolan Wells family pushing back after a grand jury declined to recommend charges in his death. The district attorney overseeing the Wells case announced the grand jury decision late Monday, saying it found no evidence of criminal conduct and said Wells' death is consistent with drowning. Wells was a black college student who was found dead after a july fourth boating trip to an island off the Mississippi coast. The US Supreme Court has denied a request to intervene in a multi state custody battle over a newborn with a heart defect. Tolomaniosibambo with member station KERA reports on the rejection of an Alaska surrogate's emergency appeal via the court shadow docket.
Surrogate McKenna West left Alaska for Texas in July to give birth to a California couple's genetic child. The couple had asked West to get an abortion months earlier after doctors detected a severe fetal heart abnormality. West argues she's the child's mother under Texas law. Earlier this month, a Dallas judge upheld a California court's order establishing the couple as the child's parents. West unsuccessfully asked Justice. Last week the Texas Supreme Court cleared the way for the newborn's genetic parents to take him back to California for medical care.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is President Trump’s stance on Iran and the UN General Assembly address?
0:01–1:25
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How is the Venezuelan man's immigration case progressing after his shooting?
1:25–2:51
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Why are former Forest Service officials opposing the agency’s reorganization?
2:51–4:30
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What did the grand jury conclude about the death of college student Nolan Wells?
4:30–5:03