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Lakshmi Singh
Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is lashing out at NATO leaders who do not want to get involved in the US War against Iran. He blasted them on his Truth Social. And while speaking to reporters at the White House today, NPR's Franco Ordonez reports. Trump called the decision shocking.
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Franco Ordonez
Trump pressed allies for help to protect oil ships crossing through the Strait of Hormuz. He said he was disappointed at their reluctance, considering how much support the US has contributed to European interests, including the war in Ukraine. Trump told reporters that NATO leaders were making a foolish mistake.
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President Trump
I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us. So this is a, this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there.
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Franco Ordonez
Several European, Western and Asian leaders, including from Germany, Italy and Japan, said this week that they would not participate in military efforts to reopen the rate, which accounts for 20% of the world's oil supply. Franco Ordonez, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
The White House Secretary of State Marco Rubio is calling for a change in Cuban leadership a day after President Trump called the Caribbean island a weakened nation that he could take over. Rubio, who is of Cuban heritage, addressed reporters today as millions of people on the island wait for electricity to be fully restored following another nationwide blackout. NPR's Ada Peralta says this comes amid an oil block by the U.S. president
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Diaz Canel
Diaz Canel blamed the U.S. for, quote, cruelly squeezing energy resources and that has made the situation in Cuba worse because the country depends on imported oil to run its thermal power plants. And for three months now, Cuba hasn't received any oil.
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Lakshmi Singh
NPR's Ada Peralta reporting. Nearly 130 Democratic members of Congress are calling on the federal government to prevent a funding shortfall, but for reproductive health clinics in the U.S. nPR's Selena Simmons Duffins says this follows the administration's release of its Title 10 funding guidance.
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Selena Simmons Duffin
Title 10 allows thousands of health centers around the country to provide free and low cost birth control, cancer screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections to people without insurance. This year, grantees were given just one week to complete their applications. Usually they have three or four months. Claire Coleman runs the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health association. She worries Title 10 grantees might have to cut staff or hours or even services if there's a delay in funding.
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President Trump
these awards don't come out on time.
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Selena Simmons Duffin
The Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to NPR's request for comment. Selena Simmons Duffin, NPR News, Washington.
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Lakshmi Singh
At a last check on Wall street, the dow is up 144 points. You're listening to NPR News. U.S. attorney General Pam Bondi is being subpoenaed to testify before Congress about possible mismanagement of a federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The Republican chair of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, James Comer, sent a letter to Bondi and CC ranking member Robert Garcia. On it, he says lawmakers have questions about the Justice Department's examination of Epstein's and associate Ghislaine Maxwell's sex abuse crimes and against women and children. The DOJ has been accused of failing to comply with a law to disclose all documents related to Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019. President Trump is taking aim at California Governor Gavin Newsom, criticizing him for his learning disabilities. Newsom is widely rumored to be a potential presidential candidate. Here's NPR's Janaki Mehta.
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Janaki Mehta
President Trump said this the president of
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President Trump
the United States, Gavin Newscomb, admitted that he has learning disabilities, dyslexia. Everything about him is dumb.
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Janaki Mehta
Trump said Newsom's learning disabilities should disqualify him from running for president. Newsom has spoken openly about his dyslexia. He takes rigorous notes and often commits speeches to memory. When asked about Trump's latest comments, Newsom's team responded with a link to a video of that very same clip poking fun at the fact that President Trump mistakenly refers to Newsom as as the president of the United States. Newsom's caption reads, quote, no, thank you. We believe in free elections. Janaki Mehta, NPR News.
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Lakshmi Singh
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