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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Trump's new national security strategy is critical of Europe in several ways, including its support for Ukraine. Terry Schultz has more.
The strategy says Europe is in economic decline and faces impending civilizational erasure. It blames the European Union, in part, for undermining political liberty and sovereignty, including freedom of speech. It says within a few decades, certain NATO countries will become majority non-European due to excessive immigration.
The German Marshall Fund's Ian Lesser says the document is unlikely to be widely appreciated, but... The hard right and those who share that view about migration and replacement theories and things of that nature will find in this some common cause.
On X, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt notes, Europe seems to be the only part of the world where the new security strategy sees any threat to democracy, which he calls bizarre. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
New details are emerging around the ICE arrest of a Massachusetts woman with ties to White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. For Member Station WBUR, Simone Rios has more.
The Leavitt family denies any involvement in tipping ICE off, but New Hampshire court records from 2015 reveal a heated custody fight with claims that Bruna Ferreira had threatened to leave the country with her child and that Michael Leavitt, Caroline Leavitt's brother, had threatened to call immigration authorities on her. Michael Levitt told WBUR that he wants his 11-year-old son to have a relationship with his mother, who came to the U.S. from Brazil as a child. But he's also urging her to self-deport, saying that could allow her to later return to the U.S. Levitt says he did not ask his sister, the White House press secretary, for help. Ferreira's sister says she did call Caroline Levitt after the arrest and still hasn't heard back.
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For NPR News, I'm Simone Rios.
Hong Kong is pressing ahead with highly managed legislative elections this weekend. That's despite the fact that authorities are still searching for human remains after a massive blaze killed at least 159 people in one of the deadliest fires in a century in the region. And here's Emily Fang has more.
On Sunday, Hong Kong will choose its next legislative council. The region is championing it as a patriots-only election, and in fact only 20 of the 90 seats on the council will be directly elected. 30 seats are chosen by committees reflecting Hong Kong's industrial interests, and a Beijing-appointed committee chooses the rest, ever since Beijing overhauled election rules in 2021. But the elections are still a litmus test for the region's chief executive, John Lee. He is under pressure to deliver a transparent investigation after the fire, and he's hoping to be chosen for a second term. Emily Fang, NPR News.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A mass shooting at a bar near Pretoria, South Africa, has left at least 11 people dead, including children. Several other people were injured. Police say it happened early today in an unlicensed bar that they're searching for three suspects. South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, with firearms being the leading cause of death. The official portrait of a transgender health official was recently altered at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services. Empire's Selina Simmons-Duffin has this exclusive report.
Admiral Rachel Levine served as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She's the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate at any federal agency. NPR has learned that Levine's official portrait, posted outside the office where she served, was recently altered so that a previous name is now typed under her photograph.
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