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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump says he's cutting USA to Colombia and will impose new tariffs on the country. The president of Colombia says Trump administration attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea recently amount to murder. NPR's Ada Peralta reports the Trump administration says it is attacking boats there to stop international drug trafficking.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said another strike had occurred on Friday and that that boat belonged to a leftist Colombian guerrilla group. Three were killed in that attack. And Colombia's president said what the U.S. blew up was a fishing vessel. I think the big picture here is that it has been decades since the U.S. military has taken this kind of posture in the Americas. So the region is tense.
And Pierre's Ada Peralta reporting. President Trump says the best way to end Russia's war on Ukraine is to carve up the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbass. Russia is currently occupying part of it. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that solution would not stop Russia from invading Ukraine again. NPR's Joannika Kicis reports from Kyiv.
What recent actions has President Trump taken regarding Colombia?
Zelensky made the comments during a closed-door meeting with media that included NPR. He said the Kremlin has long insisted that Ukraine withdraw from two eastern regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, which are partly controlled by Russia. Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin wants these regions to show that he has, quote, won this war, but that Russia will attack Ukraine again. Zelensky seemed to downplay reports that his meeting with Trump in Washington on Friday was unusually tense, adding that Ukraine shares Trump's, quote, positive outlook to end the war. However, Zelensky did say that Trump appears to be giving Putin another chance after weeks of criticizing the Kremlin.
Joanna Kekises, NPR News, Kyiv. President Trump has suggested that San Francisco may be the next city to receive National Guard troops. From member station KQED, Sarah Hosseini has more.
Trump told Fox News he plans to send the National Guard to San Francisco next and that he could use the Insurrection Act to do so, calling it unquestioned power. The rarely used law allows the president to deploy the military domestically in cases of unrest or rebellion. Legal expert Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles says that will likely trigger court scrutiny.
It would be a escalation of the president's ability to use the military on domestic soil.
How is the U.S. military involved in Colombia's drug trafficking issues?
And that we really have not seen the Insurrection Act used in modern American history in the way that President Trump wants to use it.
The Insurrection Act hasn't been used in more than 30 years. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Hosseini in San Francisco.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The FBI is investigating the discovery of a hunting stand in West Palm Beach over the weekend. The stand had a sight line to the Air Force One landing zone near where President Trump spent the weekend. NPR's Luke Garrett has more.
FBI Director Kash Patel says in a statement that no one was found near the hunting stand near the Palm Beach International Airport. But Patel says the FBI is deploying, quote, cell phone analytics capabilities and collecting all evidence at the scene without providing further details. A photo shared by U.S. Secret Service shows the hunting stand positioned in a large tree. Trump traveled to Florida on Friday and spent the weekend in West Palm Beach at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump faced two assassination attempts during his campaign, one in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July, and the second while golfing in Florida last September. A jury found Ryan Ruth guilty on assassination charges for the Florida attempt last month.
He is set to be sentenced in December. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
French police are still searching for the group of thieves that stole jewels from the Louvre Museum yesterday.
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