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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. President Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion. In a lawsuit filed in Florida, he argues the British broadcaster defamed him in a documentary titled, By splicing together parts of a speech he made ahead of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, the BBC has apologized to Trump. Its director general and news CEO stepped down amid scrutiny of the documentary. Police in Providence are asking for the public's help identifying the shooter who opened fire at Brown University Saturday, killing two and injuring nine others, Ocean State Media's David Wright reports.
The FBI and local authorities are going door-to-door in the neighborhood around Brown, asking local businesses and residents to share doorbell camera footage from Saturday that might show the suspect. Providence police released new images of a person of interest, some of them taken hours before the shooting, just two blocks away. His face masked, but his eyes visible. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Nerona.
These investigations are like threads that you pull on a garment, and some of them you pull and the garment doesn't open up, and other ones you pull and the garment comes undone.
The FBI is now offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
What legal action is President Trump taking against the BBC?
For NPR News, I'm David Wright in Providence.
A court battle between the Justice Department in California over the state's new congressional map began today. California voters decisively approved the map favoring Democrats last month. The Trump administration accuses California of racial gerrymandering by favoring Hispanic voters. California's map is a counter to Republican-led efforts in Texas and Missouri backed by President Trump. Hundreds of people in Washington state are evacuating after a levee broke on a flooded river there. This comes after nearly a week of intense flooding in the state. Casey Martin of member station KUOW reports.
Officials first noticed water pooling up next to the levee on Friday. The Green River and other rivers through western Washington have been high or flooded because of heavy rain. John Taylor, director of King County Natural Resources and Parks, said the levee gave in to the water pressure.
It looks like a V in the levee. It started at the bottom and kind of caved in, and it looks like a stream running through the levee.
Crews are patching the break with large nylon sacks that soak up water. So far, a little over 1,000 residents and businesses nearby have been told to evacuate. That adds to the nearly 100,000 people in western Washington who have been told to escape floodwaters since last week. For NPR News, I'm Casey Martin in Seattle.
U.S. officials say Washington has agreed to provide security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war. Questions over Ukraine's post-war security and the fate of occupied territories have been the main obstacles in negotiations. This is NPR News. Spain's government has fined Airbnb $75 million for unlicensed tourist rentals. Officials say many listings didn't have proper license numbers. The move is part of Spain's efforts to regulate short-term rental companies amid a housing affordability crisis, especially in popular urban areas. Airbnb says it plans to challenge the fine in court. A new study finds tanning bed users are nearly three times as likely to develop melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, compared to people who've never tanned indoors.
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And they're more likely to get it in unusual places like the lower back. NPR's Maria Godoy has more.
The study found the more often people visited the tanning bed, the higher the risk. Those with 10 to 50 visits had twice the risk of melanoma. If they had over 200 visits, their risk was more than eight times as high. Study co-author Hunter Shane of the University of California, San Francisco says younger indoor tanners also had more DNA damage in their skin cells than people twice their age.
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